Re: [Nolug] social engineering attack

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On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 20:40:49 -0400 (EDT), "Petri Laihonen"
<pietu@weblizards.net> said:
> 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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