> The writer had carried on entire conversations with Krista and Calvin which lacked a scam angle.
>"How much money do you have in your bank account?"
These scammers were good and had finesse, and the incremental approach is 100% effective. This one also plays on the "know your customer" horror stories that people have likely heard about accounts being frozen.
One has to stop every now and then to find the big picture and ask questions like why money in a bank account has to come into play, or to note that getting more detailed and in-depth are often signs of spinning a tale vs. telling the truth. That's also hard to do when you're probably in panic mode.
The callback from the spoofed phone number is very good, but also revealing. The fact that they called the victim and not vice versa, or that the call came from the main number are all clues that something is amiss.
> “It’s a government number,” he said, almost indignant. “It cannot be spoofed.”
This is something that should be taught. I only know how easy this is because I worked on messaging/telephony apps and an occasional misconfiguration while testing resulted in me sending texts or initiating calls that appeared to be from a completely different number than the one I was trying to use.
>"How much money do you have in your bank account?"
These scammers were good and had finesse, and the incremental approach is 100% effective. This one also plays on the "know your customer" horror stories that people have likely heard about accounts being frozen.
One has to stop every now and then to find the big picture and ask questions like why money in a bank account has to come into play, or to note that getting more detailed and in-depth are often signs of spinning a tale vs. telling the truth. That's also hard to do when you're probably in panic mode.
The callback from the spoofed phone number is very good, but also revealing. The fact that they called the victim and not vice versa, or that the call came from the main number are all clues that something is amiss.
> “It’s a government number,” he said, almost indignant. “It cannot be spoofed.”
This is something that should be taught. I only know how easy this is because I worked on messaging/telephony apps and an occasional misconfiguration while testing resulted in me sending texts or initiating calls that appeared to be from a completely different number than the one I was trying to use.