This is why you never answer questions when the bank calls YOU. Always decline to talk and then call THEM back.
My GF stopped a scam dead in its tracks when someone called her from the actual Wells Fargo number. She was like, "Yeah, I don't answer questions like this from people who call me. Imma hang up and call you back"
Wells Fargo confirmed that they never actually called.
Yep had the same thing happen to me, except "they" called me many times and left a lot of voice mails. After the 20th voicemail, I finally gave up and went to my local bank to ask the bank teller if they were calling me or something. They said they didn't know so they directed me to the bank manager (or something like that, but someone who is authorized to access my account to find out if anything is wrong and such, which would prompt a phone call) and I spoke to him about my situation.
Showed him the voicemails and he said, "Yeah they're scammers and it's a good thing you came here instead of answering their phone calls. Just ignore them and if we ever need to contact you, we would be either sending you a letter in the mail to ask you to call us or call you to ask you to call us but the former is what we would do as it is normal practice for security measures." I think they also said that if I accessed my account from my computer or mobile phone, there would be a secure message asking me to call them.
The last part, I may be wrong because this happened like 10 years ago and since then, I haven't gotten any robo calls since then related to my bank account. This is another reason why I'm glad I'm deaf because all of the calls I get, is "automatically" directed to voicemail. "Automatically" means I don't answer the phone due to me being deaf so I just let it ring or just hit "hang up" and it goes to voicemail. Even though Google is evil, I like how they are able to transcribe the voicemails for me so I can understand what the purpose of the call is about.
Very glad it worked out to your benefit. I can't imagine how many people they nab. I get giddy watching YouTube videos of people scamming the scammers or exposing them/wasting their time and scaring them by hacking into their location's camera feeds.
Oh yeah that guy who talks to Microsoft "support" and scams them out of their own money? I've seen some of it but not all because it was a little hard to follow.
Wow, actual honesty froms wells fargo. They recently sent me a check for 5$ from an account I had closed 10+ years ago. I shredded it and decided 5$ for not going to wells fargo was the better deal. 😅
This is why you never answer questions when the bank calls YOU. Always decline to talk and then call THEM back.
My GF stopped a scam dead in its tracks when someone called her from the actual Wells Fargo number. She was like, "Yeah, I don't answer questions like this from people who call me. Imma hang up and call you back"
Wells Fargo confirmed that they never actually called.
Yep had the same thing happen to me, except "they" called me many times and left a lot of voice mails. After the 20th voicemail, I finally gave up and went to my local bank to ask the bank teller if they were calling me or something. They said they didn't know so they directed me to the bank manager (or something like that, but someone who is authorized to access my account to find out if anything is wrong and such, which would prompt a phone call) and I spoke to him about my situation.
Showed him the voicemails and he said, "Yeah they're scammers and it's a good thing you came here instead of answering their phone calls. Just ignore them and if we ever need to contact you, we would be either sending you a letter in the mail to ask you to call us or call you to ask you to call us but the former is what we would do as it is normal practice for security measures." I think they also said that if I accessed my account from my computer or mobile phone, there would be a secure message asking me to call them.
The last part, I may be wrong because this happened like 10 years ago and since then, I haven't gotten any robo calls since then related to my bank account. This is another reason why I'm glad I'm deaf because all of the calls I get, is "automatically" directed to voicemail. "Automatically" means I don't answer the phone due to me being deaf so I just let it ring or just hit "hang up" and it goes to voicemail. Even though Google is evil, I like how they are able to transcribe the voicemails for me so I can understand what the purpose of the call is about.
Very glad it worked out to your benefit. I can't imagine how many people they nab. I get giddy watching YouTube videos of people scamming the scammers or exposing them/wasting their time and scaring them by hacking into their location's camera feeds.
Oh yeah that guy who talks to Microsoft "support" and scams them out of their own money? I've seen some of it but not all because it was a little hard to follow.
Wow, actual honesty froms wells fargo. They recently sent me a check for 5$ from an account I had closed 10+ years ago. I shredded it and decided 5$ for not going to wells fargo was the better deal. 😅