Scammers get access to your phone, if you let them.
Scanning the news this morning, I found this acrticle about this scam that is pretty disturbing. Pressing a few keys on your home phone will give the scammer total access to use your line to make long distance calls. Turns out most of these scammers are guys locked up in prison, and figure they can make nice long international calls on your dime.
Individuals claiming they are AT&T service technicians are calling peoples home.
They claim to be conducting tests and say that in order to complete the tests they need the owner to press the following numbers and then hang up.
Nine—-Zero—-Pound.
But by pressing these numbers and hanging up you will give the caller access to your phone lines and they can make long distance calls using your number.
April 6th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
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