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Had a phone call this morning, straight away I knew from the sound of the voice on the other end with associated background noises that he was using VOIP. Of course people use that for both economy but also to evade tracing.
The Asian sounding guy introduced himself to me as being from some digital media company and he first said he wanted me to renew my SSL certificate for our web site. Immediately I was suspicious and said to him, well I know what I understand the acronym SSL (secure socket layer) to mean and wanted to know if that is what he was referring to. He concurred and said that ours was up for renewal but there was no problem I could renew over the phone by supplying my credit card details. I said but I do not need any kind of SSL certificate as we have no need for an SSL connection on our web-site.
Having been off ill for 8 weeks and only gone back to work last week I was concerned that perhaps a collegue had been sucked into paying in my absense so I asked him when I had bought the original certificate and persistent to the end he said that I bought it in February of this year. At this point I was getting mad and I asked him what website was he referring to, he said something like warehousediscount.com or similar, I said I think you are mistaken we have no such website to which he repleid oh I'm sorry my database must be corrupt and bid me farewell.
The point of this post is to show that people will go to enormous lengths to obtain money by deception and as I have so far not seen or read anything about it this kind of sting I thought I would share it with you all
Forewarned is forearmed
The Asian sounding guy introduced himself to me as being from some digital media company and he first said he wanted me to renew my SSL certificate for our web site. Immediately I was suspicious and said to him, well I know what I understand the acronym SSL (secure socket layer) to mean and wanted to know if that is what he was referring to. He concurred and said that ours was up for renewal but there was no problem I could renew over the phone by supplying my credit card details. I said but I do not need any kind of SSL certificate as we have no need for an SSL connection on our web-site.
Having been off ill for 8 weeks and only gone back to work last week I was concerned that perhaps a collegue had been sucked into paying in my absense so I asked him when I had bought the original certificate and persistent to the end he said that I bought it in February of this year. At this point I was getting mad and I asked him what website was he referring to, he said something like warehousediscount.com or similar, I said I think you are mistaken we have no such website to which he repleid oh I'm sorry my database must be corrupt and bid me farewell.
The point of this post is to show that people will go to enormous lengths to obtain money by deception and as I have so far not seen or read anything about it this kind of sting I thought I would share it with you all
Forewarned is forearmed
