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I was just phished for information, military members beware

Single Seat

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Forum members, and guys on active duty.

I just received a phone call from an unlisted number, from someone claiming to be from the social security office and that I had earned a refund. When asked to verify my information I let them tell me what they knew, which was the usual name/address/phone number. What was scary was that they knew I'd received tax free pay this year, which is why I'm posting this here. I let it keep rolling to see where it went.

They put on some supervisor to "verify my bank account information" when I let them have it.

They barely spoke english (ya I'll bet you work for the social security office), called me from a restricted number, and when they asked me for the first piece of banking information I let loose with the 4 letter words and was hung up on.

Bottom line, remember if it's too good to be true it probably is. Keep your guard up.
 

HH-60H

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Forum members, and guys on active duty.

I just received a phone call from an unlisted number, from someone claiming to be from the social security office and that I had earned a refund. When asked to verify my information I let them tell me what they knew, which was the usual name/address/phone number. What was scary was that they knew I'd received tax free pay this year, which is why I'm posting this here. I let it keep rolling to see where it went.

They put on some supervisor to "verify my bank account information" when I let them have it.

They barely spoke english (ya I'll bet you work for the social security office), called me from a restricted number, and when they asked me for the first piece of banking information I let loose with the 4 letter words and was hung up on.

Bottom line, remember if it's too good to be true it probably is. Keep your guard up.

You should probably report this to NCIS.
 

Praying4OCS

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Forum members, and guys on active duty.

I just received a phone call from an unlisted number, from someone claiming to be from the social security office and that I had earned a refund. When asked to verify my information I let them tell me what they knew, which was the usual name/address/phone number. What was scary was that they knew I'd received tax free pay this year, which is why I'm posting this here. I let it keep rolling to see where it went.

They put on some supervisor to "verify my bank account information" when I let them have it.

They barely spoke english (ya I'll bet you work for the social security office), called me from a restricted number, and when they asked me for the first piece of banking information I let loose with the 4 letter words and was hung up on.

Bottom line, remember if it's too good to be true it probably is. Keep your guard up.



Thanks for the Info!
 

gaijin6423

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I'll echo the NCIS comment again. This is one of the things that usually high on their list.

Without going into too much detail, there was something in the same realm that happened to a family member of a Marine in my squadron. Except this was a foreign number, and the person on the other end was claiming that said Marine was dead (untrue). NCIS was all over it.

Thanks for the heads up.
 
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