Hello Mike Powell!

** On Wednesday 17.07.24 - 10:49, Mike Powell wrote to ARELOR:

 >> Does anybody have the slightiest idea of what the goal was?
 >> My theory is that it was a recognizansse job to harvest
 >> data for future attacks.

 MP> Could be.  There used to be some funny scam here in the
 MP> states where they'd get you to call a number and then
 MP> somehow make money from you simply calling that number.  I
 MP> never understood how that worked, since they wouldn't have
 MP> your account info, unless they were making the money via
 MP> your phone bill, with the phone company being the middle
 MP> man in the transaction.

It was quite a common trick in Canada too.  There were the 900- 
numbers too.  Some people may have not realized that calling a  
900-number would incur charges with the maximum of it going to  
the owner of the 900-number.


 MP> I just recently had someone falsely attempt to obtain a
 MP> credit card in my name.  The card company contacted me to
 MP> make sure I applied for it.  I said I had not so they
 MP> cancelled it.  The odd thing is that the bad card came
 MP> here instead of going to the fraudster.

Yeah.. I don't understand how the fraudster thinks they can  
pull that one off unless they intercept your mail to get the  
card that the credit card company sends you?


 MP> I pulled a copy of a credit report and can see that the
 MP> application apparently had my home address on it.  The
 MP> difference is the phone number is not mine and is from
 MP> outside of my area.  I suspect they are trying to get that
 MP> phone number linked to my public record so that, in
 MP> future, they can use it to gain access to other
 MP> information.

Maybe they think they can convince the credit card company that  
they never received your card and offer a different address  
claiming that you have moved?

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