Posted by:
SL Cabbie
(
)
Date: April 21, 2021 07:23PM
Cabdriver Confession: I said something "pretty racist" when I figured out I was being drawn in by a phone call saying they were going to deliver something to my late father's address (where I'm living right now), and I needed to "press 1" if I didn't recognize the order.
Here's a nice website detailing the tactics. The @$$ hat actually claimed to connect to my dad's bank and wanted a credit card number to verify I was speaking the truth.
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2020/12/fake-calls-apple-and-amazon-support-what-you-need-knowOne of the tactics I ran into was a "can you hold" request claiming they wanted to verify something, and a few minutes later they followed with "are you still there?"