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I'm not sure it help to shame people who fall for those scams. People do fall for it, scammed are exploiting human's trust that most people are nice. Most scams
by elcomet 4y ago
I'm not sure it help to shame people who fall for those scams. People do fall for it, scammed are exploiting human's trust that most people are nice. Most scams seem dumb once you know about them. And once some scam becomes well known, scammers will just change tactics.
The important thing is to educate people (for example do not give your bank information over the phone ever, except if you are the one who called maybe) and have good insurances in case something like this happens. And I believe it could happen to any of us, even people who think they're not gullible.
- hn_throwaway_99 4y agoSorry, I didn't mean to shame folks, I just meant to highlight that there is very little in this scam that seems new or clever, so it doesn't seem particularly noteworthy. I probably get a couple of similar scams directed to me every week (we joke in our company how we all get texts from our "CEO" asking to respond to an urgent need...) Every now and then I'll read about an online phishing/spear-phishing scam and think "Wow, that is really good. I definitely may have fallen for that!" (e.g. the "delayed disconnect" phone scam - TBH I didn't even realize some landlines worked like that.) This is not one of those times.
- nerdponx 4y agoTIL about delayed disconnect. Scary!