Before you can be targeted by the hardcore scammers, you've
got to fall for this deceptively simple scam first.
Phone scams are on the rise. There's the "can you hear
me?" scam, and the "free millions online" scam, and the CBN customer
support phone scam, which uses slightly different tactics.
There's also something more basic: the incredibly simple
phone scam inspired by legitimate marketing techniques, that makes all the
other scams possible to begin with--and the one you might not even realize
you've fallen for.
It's almost laughably basic, and if you're duped by it, and
you'll be targeted forever. It goes like this: