Gift card scam

[alf7536]

I received a call on my mobile this after from a person sounding like an Indian who said that my account will be debited $200 for a gift card that I had ordered. I did not at any time order an eBay gift card. THe phone number indicates that the cal was made from Adelaide but that may also be false. Just be aware, people.

[tull1969]

I received two calls from these people today to my cell phone. The first an automated message from REMOVED. Saying they had detected a possible fraudulent gift card purchase on my ebay for $299 and push various numbers to cancel, authorize or speak to security. This was a voice mail.

The second time was from a Darwin Northern Territory number REMOVED.  this time I answered, same message so I pressed the 1 to cancel and got an Indian guy. he said same, $299.9 gift card on my account etc. If I didn't authorise I would need to speak to their security to cancel. I new it was fake so asked hi a few times was he really ebay. he insisted yes. and asked what device I used. I said apple- he wanted me to go to the app store, so I changed to PC he said open Chrome and go to www.anydesk.com.... I told him he was joking I know he would get access to my PC. I let him have it that it was a scam etc. I must admit he kept cool and kept repeating that if I did nothing I would lose $299.99  etc  I hung up.

 Blocking those numbers 

[sli4279]

Got the same call, got asked if I wanted to cancel or proceed with the purchase, I said proceed. The idiot thought he heard wrong and kept confirming with me, I said just go ahead with it, and he just thanked me and hang up. 😂

[padi*0409]

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@sli4279 wrote:

 The idiot thought he heard wrong and kept confirming with me, I said just go ahead with it, and he just thanked me and hang up. 😂

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Probably not such a good move on your part since you have now confirmed your number is active, the scammer has probably passed you number on to other scammers.

The best response is either not to answer unknown callers, or hang up without saying anything.

[sandypebbles]

Indeed

I imagine the scammer is the one having a good laugh

[pinsent3]

Same thing to me - Indian sounding

[springyzone]

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@pinsent3 wrote:

Same thing to me - Indian sounding

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It doesn't matter what they sound like, scam callers can be from anywhere.

"Nicole' from Telstra is aussie sounding (though a bit robotic in tone) but she's still a scammer.

If you get any call out of the blue, asking you to confirm details or hand over information, hang up, no mjatter who they say they are from. The scammers might claim to be from ebay, Amazon, the Coomonwealth bank, taxation, Telstra, ANZ, paypal etc. The list goes on and on. The point is that they are NOT from those places, they are not associated with any of those places. Just hang up.

[papermoon.lady]

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@springyzone wrote:

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@pinsent3 wrote:

Same thing to me - Indian sounding

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It doesn't matter what they sound like, scam callers can be from anywhere.

"Nicole' from Telstra is aussie sounding (though a bit robotic in tone) but she's still a scammer.

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I agree, springy. Not to mention that the Indian accent is actually easy to imitate, so... it could be anyone anywhere.

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[5224carolh]

I too had a call today, same as yours for $299 gift card purchase, by someone in Melbourne..   Said I hadn't responded to an earlier email checking about it, so that is why they were ringing. Wanted me to go through a process for a security application which would then cancel this order, and stop the 3rd party from hacking me again. Wanted me to go to my computer to check. I asked the Indian gentleman, who gave me his name as Eric Martin, to phoneback in half an hour to give me time to check my emails- but of course nothing there from ebay, and haven't rung back. Lucky I got suspicious and didn't do as he was asking.

[highwaydweller]

I had one of these today. When I rang back, the first person said that if I rang again, they would call the police. So, I did ring back anyway, and got the runaround from another Indian sounding person about a $299 gift card. 

[davewil1964]

Your point? Other than you have confirmed that you a soft target for scammers?