First-person account in USA of someone who fell for a scam, that started as a fake Amazon service rep and ended with a fake CIA agent, and lost $50,000 cash. And this is not a naive or stupid person.
View full story of scam.
The details are fascinating. And if you think it couldn’t happen to you, think again. Given the right set of circumstances, it can.
It also happened to Cory Doctorow, and many others.
If people are calling you, asking for your information, we suggest never to give your private data and instead look for the number of the company and call direct yourself.
This reminds us of the recent Hollywood movie “The Beekeeper” starring Jason Statham, where the perpetrators are a data mining company doing hundreds (or thousands) of phishing scams every day of the week.