| Re: Unusual Phishing Attempt |
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If you are compelled to call such a place I'd use a coin phone or the
lobby phone at your employer's office (if they're dumb enough to allow
outside calls from their lobby -- I don't allow such calls from my
lobby phones!)
Al
Jim Haynes <haynes@alumni.uark.edu> wrote in message
news:telecom25.108.3@telecom-digest.org:
> What's unusual about this one is that they want you to phone a number
> to give away your personal data rather than sending it to a phony web
> page. Wonder who is on the other end of that phone number.
> Dear Brian, [which is not my name]
> Your recent order has been cancelled due to the billing information
> not verifying with your issuing bank. Please call our Payment
> Processing Department at 1-800-991-6828 with the correct
> information and we will be happy to assist you. Please disregard
> this message if we have spoken to you regarding this order.
> jhhaynes at earthlink dot net
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: If you received that letter in actual
> email I suggest they were possibly trying to avoid a scam. I called
> the number and tried to bluff them out; the woman who answered asked
> for my name and zip code (I gave bogus info) and she said she was
> unable to find an order 'from that zip code and name' for their
> various clients including 'Foot Locker' and a couple of other companies.
> I get the impression it is a legitimate payment processor. PAT]