Last week I answered the phone, in 10 seconds I'd been scammed!!! [View all]

[Omaha Steve]

I read about this on the national news last week the day after it happened. It fits the script perfectly. There was some noise. Then an operator said "Can you hear me?" "Yes." Went into a travel script. I tried to interrupt twice. No avail. I hung up.

I hope the info they had was for the previous person with our phone #.

OS

This phone scam just needs you to say ‘yes.’ Hang up instead

By Paige Yowell / World-Herald staff writer Feb 1, 2017 Updated 1 hr ago

If you get a call from a stranger asking, “Can you hear me?” hang up the phone.

That’s what the Better Business Bureau is advising consumers who might become victims of the latest scam it says is circulating the country.

Jim Hegarty, president of the BBB serving Nebraska, South Dakota, the Kansas Plains and southwest Iowa, said the region has already received hundreds of reports about the scam.

The con aims to get victims to say the word “yes” so scammers can record it. The affirmative response is used by the fraudster to authorize unwanted charges — whether it’s to a credit card, a cable or phone account or subscriptions.

FULL story: http://www.omaha.com/money/this-phone-scam-just-needs-you-to-say-yes-hang/article_9dcd0d0e-0ed8-5701-9aa1-7c0657f1c1c0.html