It’s not a Verizon commercial: If you receive a phone call from someone asking “can you hear me,” hang up. You’re a potential victim in the latest scam circulating around the U.S.
Virginia police are now warning about the scheme, which also sparked warnings by Pennsylvania authorities late last year. The “can you hear me” con is actually a variation on earlier scams aimed at getting the victim to say the word “yes” in a phone conversation. That affirmative response is recorded by the fraudster and used to authorize unwanted charges on a phone or utility bill or on a purloined credit card.
Awesome.
Interesting. I got a call from a Chinese call centre two weeks ago, and all the female said was, “Can you hear me?” I just kept saying “Hello.” After a while, she got aggressive and said, “I know you can hear me, you can hear me.”
Now I know why. Buggered if she was going to get anything out of me.
Thanks for the warning.