Are Scammers just getting lazy?
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Power Egg
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| Posted: Oct 07, 2008 2:54 p.m. - Subject: Are Scammers just getting lazy? |
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I just received a phone call, of course it was one of those credit card scammers calling. I picked up the phone and a robotic voice said "There is urgent information pending on your credit card account, please enter your social insurance number on the keypad after the tone..." Do they really expect people to fall for this?
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'#1 CakeFarter'
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| Posted: Oct 07, 2008 2:56 p.m. - Subject: |
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You should have. It was urgent.
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Master Egg
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| Posted: Oct 07, 2008 2:59 p.m. - Subject: |
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It seems like laziness but just think:
If just one person out of every couple thousand is stupid enough to enter it then the scammer is that much richer for hardly any work.
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: Oct 07, 2008 3:12 p.m. - Subject: |
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Quote: It seems like laziness but just think:
If just one person out of every couple thousand is stupid enough to enter it then the scammer is that much richer for hardly any work.
This.
Even a few doofuses in this world will make scamming like that viable, sadly.
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'Eggo Rapo'
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| Posted: Oct 07, 2008 3:36 p.m. - Subject: |
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Also, people will assume that a computer/robot won’t lie to them and that they’re official or some shit. It’s not a bad idea actually.
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'Forum Moderator'
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| Posted: Oct 07, 2008 4:16 p.m. - Subject: |
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I wonder how many people received that call.
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Normal Egg
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| Posted: Oct 07, 2008 5:14 p.m. - Subject: |
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wait you mean that was a scam and i wasn’t supposed to enter my ss number damit!
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'The Devil'
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| Posted: Oct 07, 2008 5:54 p.m. - Subject: |
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you should have put in a fake one
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'therapist'
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| Posted: Oct 07, 2008 5:59 p.m. - Subject: |
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what the hell is a "social insurance " number???
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Master Egg
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| Posted: Oct 07, 2008 7:20 p.m. - Subject: |
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^Wow, I can’t believe no one else picked up on that before you.
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Master Egg
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| Posted: Oct 07, 2008 7:45 p.m. - Subject: |
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It’s like social security but it’s canadian
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'The Devil'
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| Posted: Oct 07, 2008 10:26 p.m. - Subject: |
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damn candians, come up with yout own shit
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