Better Business, Stupider Scammers
I manage security for an aeronautic electronics plant. My position is at the front visitor’s desk where I answer the main phone line. I take a call from an obvious scammer.
Caller: “This is the Better Business Bureau. We have a complaint against your business, so put me through to the owner, now!”
Me: “Oh? Well, you called the [Local] sub-division of [Corporation], owned by the international corporation [Parent Company]. He would probably be in the business offices in either Newark, Milwaukee, our new Mexican office, Tel Aviv, or Los Angeles. Would you like me to find those numbers for you?”
Caller: *Click*
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