Hmm, am I suspicious?

[hrj]

Got an interesting phone call (on the land line, being as I'm at home waiting for the cue to take off for Kirkwood for the ski weekend). Recorded message saying they've been trying to get ahold of me about lowering my credit card interest rate and would I press "1" to speak to an agent or press "2" to decline the offer. What the heck; pressed 1. Live person comes on the line and asks if I'm calling about the interest-lowering offer. I say, "Yes, but first I'd like to get some confirmation that you actually are my financial institution and this isn't a scam." (I have, in the mean time, realized that the recorded message never actually mentioned the name of my financial institution.) Sounds occur that might be a call being switched. Long silence. Dead line. So ... you suppose maybe it was a scam? (This is meant to be a silly rhetorical question with an obvious positive answer.) Y'all practice safe phoning out there.

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[dame-cordelia.livejournal.com]

My new housemate got a call recently about the expired warranty on her car. She though it was pretty funny because she hasn't owned a car in over 10 years.

A lot of creative thinkers out there to be avoided.

[scotica.livejournal.com]

I got the car warrantee one (again) just recently. First they asked about some kind of car nobody in my family has ever owned, and when I said I didn't know what he was talking about, he switched to "jeep cherokee" -- the kind of car my dad last owned 8 or 9 years ago.

Makes me wonder how successful they are at their scam, given how bad their seed information and/or operatives are. (I mean, he started out asking about a specific kind of car, rather than waiting to see what I said my car was...)