![]() ![]() Haughey told the lady that he would need a replacement card immediately because he was about to travel out of state to California. She proceeded to then read him the last four digits of the card that was currently in his wallet. Haughey said he was greeted by a female voice who explained that the credit union had blocked two phony-looking charges in Ohio made to his debit/ATM card. After all, his credit union had rarely ever called him. But he picked up on the third call, thinking it must be something urgent and important. He ignored the first two, letting them both go to voicemail. Haughey banks at a small Portland credit union, and last week he got a call on his mobile phone from an 800-number that matched the number his credit union uses.Īctually, he got three calls from the same number in rapid succession. Matt Haughey is the creator of the community Weblog MetaFilter and a writer at Slack. Think you’re too smart to fall for one? Think again: Even technology experts are getting taken in by some of the more recent schemes (or very nearly). Most of us have been trained to be wary of clicking on links and attachments that arrive in emails unexpected, but it’s easy to forget scam artists are constantly dreaming up innovations that put a new shine on old-fashioned telephone-based phishing scams. ![]()
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