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By: Mahalie

Mahalie — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 22:47:45 +0000

I was recently called on my cell phone supposedly from a company claiming to be my creditor. It was a card I had and when I explained that I was comfortable making a payment on a call I didn’t initiate the phone attendent became irate, literally berated me and said they were putting a note on my account. Ironically, I called supposed account and apparently had missed a payment due to a paperwork error! I’m still 100% glad I didn’t take care of it with that jerk - he was unreasonable and I reported his behavior. You can ALWAYS call your card company. NEVER, EVER, give any information to anyone who calls you about any account!

By: Jeremy C. Wright

Jeremy C. Wright — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 21:14:01 +0000

I should also note that an unnamed Canadian bank called me asking me to do just that. The person who called was unintelligible. He was in the anti-fraud department. He said he’d freeze my account if I called back.

I informed him it was impossible for me to tell from his phone call that he was legit, so I called them back.

I got transferred to the department. Asked to speak to someone else. Apparently I couldn’t. My account was locked by this guy and he was the only guy who could unfreeze it. After multiple voicemails, I went to customer service who straightened it out.

All of this to say, don’t think banks will be smart about this. Sometimes they’re idiots, like in many things.

Calling someone to verify their information is just about the worst kind of tactic I can imagine.

By: Jeremy C. Wright

Jeremy C. Wright — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 21:10:48 +0000

PayPal DOES email you asking you to click links and such. Which pisses me off to no end.

By: Mike Hillyer

Mike Hillyer — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 19:05:40 +0000

Sadly I would not be suprised Thanks for the info link.

By: Dan Hulton

Dan Hulton — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 17:28:55 +0000

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You’d be surprised how many people don’t know about this kind of thing, even supposedly computer-savvy individuals.