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Women are all sugar and spice. True, but...Women are not easily fooled either.A woman gets a local call. She doesn't recognize the number, but it's local, so she picks it up.
"Hello," a pleasant male voice with a heavy Indian accent greets her. "Are you Mrs. (so and so)?" "Who's calling?" she asks, knowing that the caller, if it's a scammer, might record a "yes" answer and could use it for money scams. "Ma'am, this is Brian from (whatever company) refund center. Our records show that you've overpaid for an item you've recently ordered. Are you close to your computer, ma'am?" The bell goes off in her mind but she's alone and has a lot of time on her hands, so she decides to play along. "Oh, my!" she pretends to be surprised. "I'm getting on my computer right now. How much are we talking about?" "Great!" the man calls himself Brian but most likely called Babala or something replies. "I can tell you the exact amount in a minute, but first I have to verify a few things. In order to do that, you need to search for this address on your computer: www.xxxxx.com. Sign in with this email: xxx@gmail.com and enter the password 12345." "Okay, give me a minute. I'm almost there. You said the password is 12345, right?" "Yes, ma'am. No problem, ma'am, I'll wait." The woman puts her phone on speaker, places the phone next to the keyboard and starts typing while mumbling to herself, "That's interesting. Oh, I see," she giggles. "Ma'am! Are you there, ma'am?" he starts to sounds impatient. "Yeah, I'm here," she giggles. "Ma'am! Did you sign in? I need you to download the app so I could refund you the money. Do you understand?" "Oh, I understand. Say, are you the cute young man with that neatly trimmed dark beard, or the chubby one in the white t-shirt?" "What? How?" he mumbles nervously. "Oh, didn't I tell you? I just hacked into your surveillance system. I can see your entire office on my computer screen, and I see your building on Google map." "What? Fuck!" comes the man's voice. She hears him shouting to someone in rapid Hindi, and then a lot of commotion and a few seconds later, the phone connection goes dead. The moral of the story: Of course, most of us have no clue how to hack into anything, but we're clever enough to fool a smart scammer nicely with wits and quick thinking.
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