Poll of the Day > I once almost fell for an internet provider scam

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I had just gotten off my half day on Saturday I have to work once a month and I was trying to pay a bill while talking to my mom on the phone so my brain was kinda dead at the time. The scammer calls me and claims to be my internet provider and is super friendly. He takes some information and I ended up literally telling this guy where I worked and where I was born which I viewed as friendly chatter. Anyway he asks me for my PIN code which can be used in place of a password but I forgot that you could log in with that. I had ach set up so my credit card which has a 10k debt limit was on file. Luckily I literally forgot what my PIN code was and then he asked me for the answer to my security question. THEN I realized I fucked up and hung up the phone. I turned off ach and removed my credit card from my account. I then changed all the security questions and passwords on literally any account of any sort I had.

I havent had problems since then but for the next month when I used YouTube on my smart TV if I searched something recent searches or at least search suggestions would have Indian and Pakistani soccer games which freaked me out. That went away after like a month and I havent had problems since.

The point is NEVER give out personal information over the phone ever. Its always a scam and even if its not you cant be too sure.

Economics posted...

I had just gotten off

Story over

Your mom really should be taking better care of you.

There are so many scams out there.

It is surprisingly easy to fall for scams, sometimes, as much as we like to think it's only stupid people that do. The vast majority are obvious, but it only takes one particularly well-crafted one lining up with a momentary lapse of skepticism to get screwed over.