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Originally posted by Chicup
Cell phone is best I think.
I know if we were talking to a couple and they gave us a toll-free number to call I'd be pretty worried we just got scammed. |
A point well made Chicup. Back when I still worked in an office setting there were some major scams going on invovling 800 numbers. And our company was hit particularly hard by one of them. This particular scam was one in which original caller needed to verify employment and then said something to the affect to the HR person who answered, that something important had come up and asked if they could return the call to them in ten minutes and gave them an 800 to reach them by. She was to ask for 'Sherry'. The HR person returned the call to be met by a series of seemingly innocent questions that were answered by relaying her name, our company and several other questions in which the standard reply was yes. Basically what happened is that all of the standard answers were used to approve a change in long-distance services. It took months to get it straightened out because the scammer had the full name of the employee responsible, the company and the date of confirmation to switch services. The billing for long distance was astronomical. After that, all phone calls from telemarketers or those asking for return calls to 800 numbers were to be met with an "I'm sorry, I am not allowed to divulge any information", and to never answer anything with a yes.
I would be less leary of phoning a cell number than I would an 800 number, just due to that experience. But then if you are techie savvy, can't one find out personal info on cell numbers too? I thought I read somewhere that cell numbers were going to be getting their own phone book.