Re: [Nolug] social engineering attack

Welome to united states.
The promised land of scam.
(And in many cases it seems to be legal too.)

P

> 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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