Phone Scam

[jsteinhauer]

This was a new one for me. It apparently happened to many in the local community when an ISP got hacked.

We got a call early Sunday morning (weird time) by an automated system claiming to be our bank and informing that there was suspicious activity on our debit card and they were freezing it. It instructed to enter the card number. My wife who answered the phone was half asleep, said screw it and hung up the phone. We called the bank later, and of course they had no record of this.

My other card company often calls regarding suspicious activity (I make lots of suspicious purchases) using an automated system, but they never ask to enter the card number, only the billing address zip code.

Be wary. These things will become more and more frequent in bad times.