A new scam? Well, I haven't met this one before.
by hazel from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4W1FX)
I suppose you are all familiar with the one where they ring and tell you that your Internet account is going to be cancelled in the next 24 hours unless you press button 1 and wait for further instructions.
I don't know what button 1 does but my guess is that it puts you onto a premium-rated line where a very long recorded message will add a couple of hundred pounds to your telephone bill.
But just now I received a call which is a very clever variant of this scam. Instead of threatening me, it simply informed me that money would be withdrawn from my bank account as agreed to pay for my new Amazon service unless I pressed button 1 to cancel it. Needless to say, I don't take any services, paid or otherwise, from Amazon. But that surely is the point of the scam: people are going to think that they have been wrongly subscribed to something and that they must unsubscribe immediately or lose money.
There's one born every minute!
I don't know what button 1 does but my guess is that it puts you onto a premium-rated line where a very long recorded message will add a couple of hundred pounds to your telephone bill.
But just now I received a call which is a very clever variant of this scam. Instead of threatening me, it simply informed me that money would be withdrawn from my bank account as agreed to pay for my new Amazon service unless I pressed button 1 to cancel it. Needless to say, I don't take any services, paid or otherwise, from Amazon. But that surely is the point of the scam: people are going to think that they have been wrongly subscribed to something and that they must unsubscribe immediately or lose money.
There's one born every minute!