Re: [Nolug] social engineering attack

never answer the phone :)

ml

On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:45 pm, Joey Kelly wrote:
> I was just the target of a social engineering attack. Someone claiming to
> work for some collection agency in Florida called me a bit ago, claiming to
> be reopening a collection action against me. I in fact did have a
> charge-off in the past from some large credit card company, but the guy got
> 4 details wrong about my account:
>
> 1. His dates were wrong.
> 2. The payment schedules he quoted were incorrect.
> 3. His residence information was out of sync with where I actually lived
> while I had the card.
> 4. He only knew the last 4 digits of my SSN, and pretended to know all of
> it.
>
> Oh, and he was quite abusive and accusatory towards me. He even demanded
> that I be nice to him, since a hurricane was bearing down on him, and I
> ought to feel sorry for him.
>
> The above, coupled with the fact that I have received no correspondence
> from the lender in X years (the charge-off has even expired from my credit
> history), leads me to believe that I was the target of a scam.
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