I have been spearphished!
Which is worse than a simple phishing expedition.
I'm in my car and get a message that my account has been suspended.
What account? Was this a text? (Bluetooth can do odd things)
Then the phone rings and I'm given a choice of numbers to press. I press one and some guy with a vague accent starts asking questions...
"Are you *****"
Yes.
"Do you live at ********"
Yes.
And few more like that.
Finally, he says there is a problem with my Sprint account.
"I don't have a Sprint account."
Immediate hangup.
Spearphishing is an advanced form of phishing where they have tidbits of information about you, enough to make you think they are for real, and try to get the good stuff. If we went on longer, he would have eventually asked for my credit card info to "fix" the problem.
It's getting nasty out there.
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Of course they didn't specify any. But yeah fuck robodialers. 
And said that I overpaid on my account and were giving me a refund. They weren't, and I didn't get a refund. I did contact Verizon and told them about the fraudsters. I still wonder if I got phished but thankfully I have been checking my accounts every day and so far no fraudulent activity. 
I did block that number and all related numbers, so they should stop calling.
If it’s important, they’ll leave a message and call back number. Then you can go to the company or organization’s website, or, even better, look on a bill/statement to contact the stated entity to check on the status of your accounts. Do not give any information to anyone claiming to be a business or government agency, just hang up and get the true number and call them yourself.
Is best if you just don’t answer numbers you don’t know. As soon as you pick up, doesn’t matter whether you wait for a robocall or voice of any sort, just because you’ve picked-up you’ve been put on a list as an active line that answers calls.
Being cute and thinking you’re outsmarting the person on the other end doesn’t matter, because you simply picked up the phone, and now put yourself on a list that will be sold to gawd-knows-who.
This is the kind of crap that keeps me up some nights, as my FIL stubbornly thought he’d outwit them, and then complain about the ridiculous number of junk calls. He finally relinquished his constant answering ‘techniques’, after one caller impersonated his son, and spent $5K in the Cayman Islands.
Do not let yourself wind up on the answers-the
-phone-every-GD-time lists.
The thieving phone scammers make me freakin’ livid.
In recent years. I’ve gotten calls from all over the world, and I just let them ring. Sometimes, I’ll screenshot the super weird ones’ call logs as a record of, welp, someone from Romania called, again. I guess, that’s an album of jic it ever becomes useful or important to prove I found those numbers as well beyond acceptable.
I don’t even hit the drop the call option on my cell - I am too lazy to go find out if scammers can tell if you deny the call - I just assume they do, which would count as indicating an active line.
Most people in my life text before calling anyway - saves so much grief.
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Hi, HTP
Hardly know what to do with myself without hours of impeachment tracking 
