A scam warning for all YLC members
We received this email from YourLifeChoices member BJ, who wanted to warn everyone about a phone scam that he received this week:
“I wish to draw everyone's attention to a scam telephone call that I received this afternoon. I had emailed 30 pages of medical reports to my medical consultant, which included details of my health problems, personal home address, telephone number, medicare number, and I received a telephone call from a Chinese sounding woman, who confirmed my medical appointment date and time, and then asked me for $4000. At which time I put the phone down.
“When I looked up the number, there are many others on google who also have received similar types of phone calls from what appears to be a Sydney telephone number, which was (02) 8076 8078, when I looked up this number on google, the information that came up said the company name was ‘Card Call’. Please warn all YourLifeChoices members of this scam.”
Have you ever received a phone call like this? What did you do?
Next time you get a call supposedly from Telstra about your faulty internet,use the “Hermann Gruntfuttock” defence; “What?” I hear you say.
One day the phone rang: silence.
When the silence goes on for a while you know it’s an Indian call centre’s autodial system which automatically dials phone numbers in sequence until it detects a human voice, then it transfers the call to the team of scammers.
Sure enough a very Indian voice asking me how am I, to which I replied by asking why are you calling me.
“I’m from Telstra” she said, “We have detected a fault in your internet, so are ready now to fix it for you” to which I replied, “Are you looking at my account at the moment?”
“Yes “ was the reply, following which I said “I’ll advise you of my name to make sure it is my account you’re looking at”
Then said “My name is Hermann Gruntfuttock, Hermann with 2 n’s; is that my account you’re calling about?”
“Yes” was her reply, followed by me saying “Bye bye”