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clicclic
12-02-2004, 10:42 PM
My girlfriend just got a call on her cell phone from some scam artist saying "You won an ipaq cell phone."

She was smart enough to ask "Which ipaq cell phone is that" but she wasn't smart enough to hang up. The guy said "Oh I'll go check," then came back and said "its an Ipaq i400". She foolishly gave her billing address and the last 4 digits of her social security number. She got the guy's CSR ID # and "name" then hung up.

She then called T-mobile (USA) and they didn't know anything about it. The bottom line: my girlfriend (an avid NX70 user) was just scammed. I don't know what damage a billing address/4 digits of one's social can do but I know it will be something (PayPal? Ebay? Gas station CC?).

HEADS UP FOLKS!

Darius Wey
12-03-2004, 10:27 AM
She then called T-mobile (USA) and they didn't know anything about it. The bottom line: my girlfriend (an avid NX70 user) was just scammed. I don't know what damage a billing address/4 digits of one's social can do but I know it will be something (PayPal? Ebay? Gas station CC?).

HEADS UP FOLKS!

:cry:

What a depressing story.