Bank of America? Yeah, Right (scam alert)

[Robert Coats]

First time I've gotten a spoofed name/number. Today (! Sunday !) I missed two back-to-back calls from (caller ID) 'Bank of America (800) 933-6262.' So yeah, I've been with 'em for 25 years, and only ever gotten a call from a local branch maybe twice, and their mortgage sales team (solicitors) in the early evening, so getting any call like this on a Sunday tingles my Spidey-Sense™.

Sure enough, Google sez it is indeed scammers.

Perhaps I would not have become so quickly suspicious if they'd called during banking hours.

Old-Timers will remember what Sgt. Esterhaus used to say which merits inclusion of this fuzzy animated GIF:

[masraum]

Any call that you get from any business these days should be a red flag.
I also consider emails a red flag.

If I have any doubts about any of the above, I'll either call the number on the card (If it's a bank) or go to their website.

I'm glad that you caught it.

I work in IT. I've known IT folks that got scammed. It usually happens with savvy people when they are tired and/or distracted so don't think.

Here's a financial advisor that apparently got screwed out of $50k. No way in hell would I go on TV and admit it.

[sc_rufctr]

I'm getting scam messages and calls almost daily!

The ones calling me mostly have Indian accents.
- FWIW their IT support people were trained by Western companies...

Weirdly I've also been getting some messages from Argentinian numbers.

[pwd72s]

Our land line used to be flooded with scam calls out of India...then one morn, 6:00 AM, I still sleeping, got awakened. Really pissed me off. Since then, I take the phone off the hook when I go to bed, replace it around 9:00 AM, when a legit call might come in. Since doing that, the number of scam calls has diminished considerably. Some days, no scam calls at all.

[Flatbutt1]

I got a phisher from an AmEx spammer today. Called AmEx immediately.

[pwd72s]

One scam call I kind of enjoy is the "Grandpa" scam...a caller saying he or she is my grandson or granddaughter. Always a tale of woe..usually a car wreck resulting in arrest. I give lots of concern & sympathy...wasting as much of the scammer's time as possible. Then I tell them that my daughter had no children, so I'm puzzled...... Gosh! Kids these days sure have foul language!

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

One scam call I kind of enjoy is the "Grandpa" scam...a caller saying he or she is my grandson or granddaughter. Always a tale of woe..usually a car wreck resulting in arrest. I give lots of concern & sympathy...wasting as much of the scammer's time as possible. Then I tell them that my daughter had no children, so I'm puzzled...... Gosh! Kids these days sure have foul language!

I got one of those calls. My grandson was supposedly arrested in Mexico. I asked a lot of questions and kept him on the line for a while until I got bored. Then I told him the no good punk can just rot in jail. And I hung up. As I have no kids, I am pretty sure I don't have nay grandkids.

[Zeke]

I don't have time. It takes 2 steps to make my phone ring. One is have a Google number. The caller can't be a robot because they have to state their name and stay on the line to see if I answer. The other is my own trick although most phones have the feature.

[sc_rufctr]

So anyway... I see this ad on Facebook, figuring they're up to no good so I report it.

- Why would anyone want to clone a credit card?



And this is the reply from Facebook.



Figuring they made a mistake or something I re-report it and again same result.



Here's a direct link to the page... https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556748750180

[masraum]

Gotta love FacePlant!

Clearly, it's all above board!