My workplace just got a Nigerian prince scam. By fax. 
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WHOA now that is old school as heck!!!
Try as we might, can’t kill fax machines. Sure they’re ancient tech, but they’re the preferred tech for medical and legal for dubious ‘security’ reasons.
You going to reply back by fax?
Nah. We just laughed at it. It might be fun to fax back as the president of the college, though…
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Do it! i love those threads of messing with scammers!
After years of having a bad reputation, AT&T has hit on a very generous way of rebuilding it: They’re offering cell phone rebates to people who aren’t their customers. No questions asked! Just you’ve been overcharged so you get a rebate. Tell us how you want it and we’ll send it to you.
Isn’t that nice of them?
Sounds legit.
Wait, what?
Sounds dodgy.
Oh, it was. Call comes in at the same time I was trying to get ahold of another person and the spoofed caller ID could have been from my company’s HQ, so I put the first call on hold and answered this one. I can get calls from basically anywhere in the US that are related to my job, so I can’t just say I don’t recognize the number and not answer. (Only a few I recognize are spoofed IDs and they get the “I’m busy” text.)
The call went like this:
Person says they’re from AT&T and I was overcharged for my cell phone so I am due a rebate. How do I want the rebate?
They never verified I was an AT&T customer. I’m not, since the corporate-issued cell phone the scammer called is from a different company. I didn’t say what company my cell phone was from, but what I did say made him hang up quick when he realized his script didn’t account for that.
My post yesterday was spinning it into a more interesting tale. Confusing, too, apparently.
Should have stringed him along and waste his time… or transfer him to Lenny…
Wow, Emily, you sure get around and keep busy. You sell auto insurance, home repair insurance and Medicare coverage. When do you find time to eat?
She probably star in a pr0nz movie as a side hustle…
Adding home monitoring systems to her list. At this rate, she might actually get to that point.
Loved this story.
We Need To Talk About Kevin
Instant Karma, Parents/Guardians, Pennsylvania, Phone Scam, USA | Legal | November 12, 2019
(My mother is in her sixties and thus part of the demographic that credit card phone scammers tend to target. However, despite being mildly technophobic, she’s nobody’s fool and has devised a strategy to get the scammers to take her off their list. I was privileged to witness this recently.)
Mom: checking her phone screen as it rings “Oh, look, a call from Kevin. I bet he wants to help me with my Visa Mastercard account.” answers the phone and listens for a moment “Sure enough.”
(She presses one to speak to a representative and puts the phone on speaker.)
Me: “Mom, what are you doing? That’s how they confirm your number is live! You’ll never get rid of them now!”
Mom: “Watch and learn, sweetie.”
(The call is answered by a guy with an almost cartoonishly thick accent.)
Scammer: “Yes, hello, this is Harry, and we are calling to help you with your Visa Mastercard account–“
Mom: at full “cranky old lady” volume “WHERE’S KEVIN?”
Scammer: “Uh… pardon me, ma’am? My name is Harry, and I’m calling to help you with–“
Mom: ******* still at full volume* “NO, that’s not right! My phone said this was a call from Kevin! I want to talk to Kevin! You put Kevin on the phone right now or else–“
Scammer: click
Mom: “And that’s how we deal with that.”
Me: “I love you.”
Mom: “I know.”
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I got a call yesterday from someone telling me that my house had energy credits. I called him a scammer and said that he should be ashamed of himself and he got really pissed off. So angry, in fact, that he called me back from five different numbers (I only picked up the last one so I could answer in Japanese), just to say, “You’re a stupid bitch, you know that?”
Bitch, maybe. Stupid, not so much. 
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aw shame, the poor widdle scammer
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I hear they get all creeped out if you say stuff like you’re going to mutilate their grandmother, or mention pig blood. I rarely answer a number that isn’t in my contacts, though, except for at work. Can’t really go too off on them at work. Maybe I should start whispering ‘redrum’. I doubt they’d get the reference.
Just say “Boss? Its done, there is so much blood. But its done.”
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I like it!