Phone Scam 20080308
ID: Hello Citibank? Is that you?
A Wired Lion Member is STILL laughing after this exchange! Here's her story:
I got a telemarketer (maybe scammer) to hang up on ME!
This guy called me saying he was from card services and wanted to get me a new APR on my credit card. The way he said it made me think he was from Citibank where I do have a card. So, I asked him a few questions; he asked me a few questions all friendly like. Then he said something that made me suspicious. I don't even remember what it was, but I said, "Oh, you mean you're not with Citibank itself?" He said, "No, but we work with them." I said, "Well, I'm not going to give you any information over the phone." He said, "Well, then I'm not giving you any information over the phone either!" and HUNG UP!
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Email/Phone Scam 20080905
ID: Family Horizons Credit Union Phone Scam
This scam actually invites you to call a “special” number where you can give away all of your personal bank information to a friendly, pre-recorded, set of instructions!
Check out the email and the bank's response on the link to the right!
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FHCU scam |
Phone Scam 20071215
ID: Inmate #72 or 72# Call Forwarding scam
The 72# telephone scam involves the illegal practice of forwarding a customer's incoming calls without permission. Generally, the customer receives a collect call from an inmate facility. The caller asks the customer to input a series of numbers which in turn activates the customer's call forwarding (72#) feature and gives the caller access to the customer's phone line. Ultimately, the customer is billed for the forwarded calls, which include additional collect or long distance charges.
Read more about this phone scam by clicking on the report link to the right!
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72 Phone Scam |
Telephone Hoax/Scam 20071015
ID: Dial 90# PBX Call Forwarding scam
This is actually an old chestnut that has floating around for many years. When it was presented to us, we decided to give it the full Wired Lion check-up. It is so out of date that it can be called a hoax these days. The claims in current emails can DEFINITELY be called a hoax!
Check out more information by clicking on the report link to the right.
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90# PABX Call Forward Scam |
Phone Scam 20071201
ID: 809, 284 and 876 area code payment scams
This is an actual fraud perpetuated by foreign pay-per-call operators that can cost you thousands of dollars for a phone call! Here we present the initial email report we received and the official AT&T report verifying this scam:
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809 Call Charge Scam |
Telephone Scam 20070101
ID: American Red Cross & US Military reports identity theft scam
ACR has received reports of a phone and internet scam in which the "caller" is identified as an ACR officer trying to locate information concerning a wounded soldier in need of blood.
This despicable individual contacts a family with a soldier serving overseas and reports that this soldier has been wounded and needs blood but that their medical records "are not complete". They ask for the social security number and other personal information of the soldier and your family in hopes that your fear for your loved one will cause you to comply. They then sell this information to identity-fraud criminals to exploit both the soldier and the family!
The ACR does not contact the family of soldiers under ANY circumstances. All contact is made by the military service involved and they have full and up-to-date medical records already available to them.
If you receive this type of contact, please report it directly to the ACR who will aid you in making sure this information gets to the proper authorities. This type of identity-theft/fraud is a federal offense!
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Telephone Scam 20071010
ID: Credit Card CVV (CVC) number
We have a pretty slick telephone scam here! They actually have the bulk of the information about your credit card, but need to get the one piece they still need to be able to use your credit card account over the internet, your CVV code.
On the back of your credit card, above the signature field, is a series of numbers. Usually they are either all or just the last 4 digits of the credit card number followed by a 3 or 4 digit code. This code is a CVV number, for Card Verification Value number. Mastercard calls it CVC2 and American Express, CID. It is part of a security procedure that requires the card holder to verify that the card is “on hand” during “card not present” transactions, such as those done over the internet. Since it is a cryptographic check of the information embossed on the card, the CVV code is not part of the card number itself. This number is becoming required by more and more on-line commerce in order to charge an item to a credit card account over the Internet. As such, it is becoming just as valuable to the bad guys as the credit card number itself.
Check out the report sent to us by clicking on the link to the right:
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Credit Card Telephone scam |
Telephone Scam 20070101
ID: Jury Duty/Identity Theft Scam:
This has been verified by the FBI (Their link is also included below). It is spreading fast so you could you get this call.
The caller claims to be a jury coordinator. If you protest you never received a summons for jury duty, the scammer asks for your Social Security number and date of birth so he or she can verify the information and cancel the arrest warrant. Give out any of this information and, bingo, your identity just got stolen.
The scam has been reported so far in 11 states. This (scam) is particularly insidious because they use intimidation over the phone to try to bully people into giving information by pretending they're with the court system. The FBI and the federal court system have issued nationwide alerts on their web sites, warning consumers about the fraud.
Check it out here:
http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp
http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel05/092805.htm
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Telephone Scam 20071016
ID: MidAmericaBank Credit Card scam
This was sent to us by MAB and is posted on their site. It is an interesting twist as it asks YOU to place a call and then uses an automated message to get you to divulge your credit card and pin number. We can see people being tricked by this as they assume the number must be valid and there is no actual person directly involved. The credit card number step seems to be just a “key at the gate” and is dismissed as secondary when, if fact, it is the point of the scam!
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MAB Phone Scam Alert |
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