the big guy in Bellevue gets scammed

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028579381

Oh my.

But he's got a good, a great, taxpayer-funded pension.  He can afford it.

Omaha Steve (65,132 posts)     Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:44 PM

Last week I answered the phone, in 10 seconds I'd been scammed!!!
 
I read about this on the national news last week the day after it happened. It fits the script perfectly. There was some noise. Then an operator said "Can you hear me?" "Yes." Went into a travel script. I tried to interrupt twice. No avail. I hung up.

I hope the info they had was for the previous person with our phone #.

This phone scam just needs you to say ‘yes.’ Hang up instead

If you get a call from a stranger asking, “Can you hear me?” hang up the phone.

That’s what the Better Business Bureau is advising consumers who might become victims of the latest scam it says is circulating the country.

Jim Hegarty, president of the BBB serving Nebraska, South Dakota, the Kansas Plains and southwest Iowa, said the region has already received hundreds of reports about the scam.

The con aims to get victims to say the word “yes” so scammers can record it. The affirmative response is used by the fraudster to authorize unwanted charges — whether it’s to a credit card, a cable or phone account or subscriptions.

FULL story: http://www.omaha.com/money/this-phone-scam-just-needs-you-to-say-yes-hang/article_9dcd0d0e-0ed8-5701-9aa1-7c0657f1c1c0.html

Omaha Steve (65,132 posts)      Wed Feb 1, 2017, 04:23 PM

11. It came in after I made several call to Senators & Congress persons about Trump
 
It made sense that one was calling me back.

I should have used the usual "who's calling?"

Our phone and cable (same company with free unlimited long distance) were locked down already. Watching everything else like a hawk.

Fre LD makes it easy to call representatives.

He'll get over it.  He doesn't need the money anyway.

[Carl]

He actually thought a Congress critter was calling him back?

 

[franksolich]

He actually thought a Congress critter was calling him back?

 

This scam's pretty prevalent in Nebraska right at the moment--I dunno if it is anywhere else.

But if it turns out the big guy was in fact scammed, I'd look at as God punishing him for opposing a man who's trying to do what's good for America and Americans.

[BlueStateSaint]

This is why we have On-Screen Caller ID.  If it's a number we don't recognize, we don't pick it up.

[I_B_Perky]

This has hit WV. Every now and again a guy up at work with mess with them and answers his personal phone.   Same thing happened to him except he kept saying "I can't hear you, please speak up.". 

He had the guy literally screaming.   

Then about an hour later he got the microsoft scammer calling. He kept telling the guy "I did that and a little box pops up that says: FU.".

 

[freedumb2003b]

This scam's pretty prevalent in Nebraska right at the moment--I dunno if it is anywhere else.

But if it turns out the big guy was in fact scammed, I'd look at as God punishing him for opposing a man who's trying to do what's good for America and Americans.

I wish someone would try that scam on me. By the time I was done tying them inside out and upside down there would be nothing left but bent paperclips and torn yellow sticky notes.

Your voice saying "yes" means NOTHING.  They need to identify you by name, state the date and time, get the topic under discussion, etc. etc. etc.
 

[Airwolf]

I don't answer any phone number I don't recognize. It can go to voice mail and die on the vine so to speak.

[jukin]

A leftist and our tax money is soon parted.