The IT Nerd

While I was away on business, we got a phone message on our voice mail that said that our debit card was locked and to press 1 to speak to someone to unlock it. Since it was on our voice mail, I had the opportunity to listen to it. There was no bank identified in the message. The other thing that I noted that there was no phone number captured by the call display on my phone.

A bank would identify itself and there would have been a number for the bank that I would have recognized. Since both were absent, this screams scam. I am guessing that if you press 1, there’s going to be a person on the other end of the phone looking to grab your debit card number and your PIN so that they can clone your card and steal your money. Perhaps they’ll go after other personal info as well. A Google search confirms that this is a scam that has been around for some time. My advice to you would be to ignore this scam if it hits your phone.

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