I may have just stopped myself from being the victim of a scam. I am not sure.<\/p>\n
I received a call on my cell phone. When I answered, I heard enough noise to know I had connected but nobody was there. I redialed the number, and they answered, “Can I help you?” I said that they had just called me. They identified themselves as Sprint and asked me if I had a Sprint\/Nextel phone. Well, I do… they asked for my name, and then for the last 4 numbers of my SSN. I gave them my name, and then stopped myself before giving out my SSN info. There was no identification on my phone other than the phone number, so how did I know they were Sprint?<\/p>\n
I asked what the call was about, and she said it was just a courtesy call, making sure I was getting good service. If that was the case, why did they need my SSN (even the last 4 numbers)? I then asked why, if they were being courteous, they were calling me knowing that I was paying for minutes. Her response was, well, we’re Sprint, when we call you you don’t get charged. I said, well, you are not identified on my phone as being Sprint, and I had to call you back due to not connecting when you called me.<\/p>\n
Sometime around then I got angry and hung up. She was not willing to give ME any identification. So I called my *2 (Sprint Customer Service). The representative there was nice and asked what the number was… I stated I did not write it down (and could not check the number while I was on the same phone). He stated that most of Sprint’s numbers were 800 or 866, and I should check the number and call back.<\/p>\n
I did so. It took a bit of time to get the new customer support person to understand why I was calling, but she put me on hold and checked the number. After about 4 minutes on hold, she stated that she could not find that number in the Sprint directory. So I asked her to report the situation, hopefully to prevent others from being scammed who were not as suspicious as I am.<\/p>\n
I’m putting this out there to let everyone know not to give out information until you totally trust the party you are speaking with… and I know that in some cases you will be wrong anyhow, but it just pays to be suspicious. In this case, there were no giveaways or hype (yet, but maybe I didn’t let her get around to it), and there was just BARELY enough to get me suspicious. Maybe it WAS from Sprint, but just maybe scammers are getting smarter.<\/p>\n
Hugs,
Me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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