Comments on: Phone phishing

By: Bruce Marshall

Bruce Marshall — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:31:58 +0000

@Rick – Calling people stupid for falling for these scams is wrong, they are merely too trusting of the info they have (caller’s claims, caller ID) and unaware of common scam techniques.

Because some of us have been the target of scams like this via postal mail, email, and telephone calls for years we tend to forget that somewhere, someone is experiencing it for the first time.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:30:03 +0000

Of course, one recent credit card letter (legit) I received had a typo… the number was a psychic hotline.

By: Terry Jones

Terry Jones — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:32:10 +0000

You don’t trust me?

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:12:16 +0000

What I’ll never get is how people that stupid can amass the funds to hold debit and credit cards in the first place. I’m starting to think the one irrefutable requisite for being a cog in the wheel in this greatest of all human eras is that you are congenitally stupid (and do what the man says). Go along with that and they’ll keep you in enough green. Until the smart but disenfranchised come along to take it away.

The Chinese wish people to ‘live in interesting times’. This can’t be what anyone was really wishing for. Time to get back into the hills. ;)