An Ontario woman is out $86,000 after receiving a call from a fraudster claiming to be a Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) investigator. They told her that her bank accounts were involved in a money laundering operation.
I’m blown away that people still fall for these. Always say that you’ll call back to verify and get the number from the company’s website or call the number on your credit / debit card.
Who the hell gives their credit card number out to the company who should have records of said account. Sorry, but they did fall off the back of the turnip truck.
Didn’t actually read the whole piece did ya? Just stopped at the first paragraph and then reacted?
It’s fine, at this point I’m sure you’ll go find something else to pick apart to protect your ego, meanwhile allowing the point to escape you entirely.
I just hope if/when you get scammed, the people around you are less of a dick about it.
I’m blown away that people still fall for these. Always say that you’ll call back to verify and get the number from the company’s website or call the number on your credit / debit card.
It can happen to anyone:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/05/cyber-dunning-kruger/
Cory Doctorow didn’t just fall off the back of a turnip truck. If it can happen to him, odds are it can happen to you.
Yeah, I’d forgot that he wrote about getting conned. Good call.
Who the hell gives their credit card number out to the company who should have records of said account. Sorry, but they did fall off the back of the turnip truck.
SOP at my major bank for verifying myself over the phone used to be to read out numbers from my debit and credit cards. Now my bank uses SMS 2FA.
The fault lies partly in the fact that 7 numbers of your card can give all 16 numbers away.
Nah, he fell off the swiss-cheese truck. And wouldn’t you know it, the stack of swiss landed with a perfect line of holes. Zap!
There is a reason they do this, it works.
Didn’t actually read the whole piece did ya? Just stopped at the first paragraph and then reacted?
It’s fine, at this point I’m sure you’ll go find something else to pick apart to protect your ego, meanwhile allowing the point to escape you entirely.
I just hope if/when you get scammed, the people around you are less of a dick about it.
They use it to verify your identity. Or when you phone in the ask to input your credit card number to continue.