I have a Apple account just for the kids Apple devices (required for school). Received an email from Apple support about fraudulent activity and that they'd call at sometimes. I thought that was weird and checked out the email and everything was legit.

Call came in a little early then in the email. They knew all the right details including the case number, sent a verification code to my mobile from a short code SMS "iCloud" and at that point they had me. But only until they asked me to go to a site apple.somebullshit.com. Well apple isn't going to use a domain that's not *.apple.com. went there anyway to check and the SSL cert was from Let's encrypt, apple ain't using let's encrypt.

20 years in IT, that's the closest I've been in. Very long time to falling for something.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I know someone who got had by a spearfishing call. They knew all the details about his phone contract, sounded 100% legit. The scammer got thousands of dollars in prepaid SIM cards from his account.

After the police investigation, turned out that the scammer was actually a former employee of the phone company who downloaded a copy of the customer list when he got fired.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is why even if I think something is 100% legit, if a place calls me asking for anything I tell them I have to check on it and call back. Then I'll call their known public number and go through that way. I've avoided a couple scam situations like this

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

This is literally the correct way to proceed in any inbound communication. Doesn't matter who it is, the more authority they claim the faster to hang up.

They will try and trigger your lizard brain and make you feel like you must act now.

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

privacy policy

look inside

sells your data

cat looking in meme

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

The policy is that you don't have privacy and that they sell your data.

[–] e_chao@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Inspired by this post, I just created a phishing test for my staff with a malicious URL in a "report this as spam" link, complete with a required training for those who click the link.

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I get that feeling when I press "report spam" and gmail suggest I "unsubscribe from them", that that's exactly what the spammer want, a ping back so they know I'm susceptible, that I'm an engaging fool, and get put on all the lists.

[–] Dainis@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not sure if emails work the same way, but this is how phone scammers work

If you interact with a phone scammer, send them to hell or do anything at all with them, you just get added to a big lost of people that respond to scam calls and so you get more calls

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I try waste as much of their time as possible. It seems I've been such a cunt and wasted so much of their time that they have put my number on a blacklist.

[–] The_v@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I have a work phone and a personal phone. The work phone i answer calls from I known numbers all the time. My contact information gets passed around as part of my business. For a while I had scammers hitting my number 3-4 times per day. I answered and fucked with them every time. A little free stress relief through the day. Now I almost never get them anymore.

My personal phone I have always screened all the calls. It still gets hit with scammers 2-3 times per week.

I guess you are right. There is a list going around of numbers who waste their time.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's what I figured too. Make sure to be the biggest pain for them. Seems dumb to put someone that is savvy and not a rube on a list to be called more. I would think the not answering scam calls would get you more calls because they are unsure of you.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I defiantly got onto the call more list at one point but I kept being the biggest pain in the ass and one day they just stopped completely. I once had these one people on the phone for 6hours straight and went through about 4 transfers in the process. They connected with my VM at one point where I was live developing a fake bank website I had passed through from my host. Did u know u can embed the password game into a website extremely easily and conveniently I needed a password reset and needed help. Yes I stole the idea from kitboga.

[–] flappy@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

r/foundsatan

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ dude. 6 hours?!

Ignoring calls is easy enough. I value my time more.

If I don’t recognize a number I just don’t answer it. No time commitment.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Kotboga’s record is around 54 hours. It’s amazing.