Subj : The weird scam call To : Mike Powell From : August Abolins Date : Wed Jul 17 2024 21:47:00 Hello Mike Powell! ** On Wednesday 17.07.24 - 10:49, Mike Powell wrote to ARELOR: >> Does anybody have the slightiest idea of what the goal was? >> My theory is that it was a recognizansse job to harvest >> data for future attacks. MP> Could be. There used to be some funny scam here in the MP> states where they'd get you to call a number and then MP> somehow make money from you simply calling that number. I MP> never understood how that worked, since they wouldn't have MP> your account info, unless they were making the money via MP> your phone bill, with the phone company being the middle MP> man in the transaction. It was quite a common trick in Canada too. There were the 900- numbers too. Some people may have not realized that calling a 900-number would incur charges with the maximum of it going to the owner of the 900-number. MP> I just recently had someone falsely attempt to obtain a MP> credit card in my name. The card company contacted me to MP> make sure I applied for it. I said I had not so they MP> cancelled it. The odd thing is that the bad card came MP> here instead of going to the fraudster. Yeah.. I don't understand how the fraudster thinks they can pull that one off unless they intercept your mail to get the card that the credit card company sends you? MP> I pulled a copy of a credit report and can see that the MP> application apparently had my home address on it. The MP> difference is the phone number is not mine and is from MP> outside of my area. I suspect they are trying to get that MP> phone number linked to my public record so that, in MP> future, they can use it to gain access to other MP> information. Maybe they think they can convince the credit card company that they never received your card and offer a different address claiming that you have moved? -- ../|ug --- OpenXP 5.0.58 * Origin: The LOOK of MicroNET https://kolico.ca/ftn/micronet (618:250/1.9) .