Kate.jackson@bnymellon.com
Complaint
Kate Jackson
Country: United States
Kate Jackson reported BNY Mellon from 412-234-4519 as a Prank Caller
Oct 30th 2009 - 4:02:32am EDT Just got a call from this #412-234-4519...telling me I just won $2600 travel dollars WTF are travel dollars? Anyway, I insisted they just mail me a cheque of what I won, or I could come and pick it up. The heavily indiscernible-accented (East IndianPakistaniNigerian???) man on the line questioned whether I was at least 23 years old...and had a valid Visa or MasterCard. When I asked him why he would need MY credit card info if I WON the prize, he said he would pass me on to another representative. He also said that they wouldnt mail me my cheque and I could not pick it up. I told him to stop calling my # and then hung up on his dirty a. Always a fun time fUKing around with these a$$holes. Kate.jackson@bnymellon.com
Oct 30th 2009 - 4:02:32am EDT Just got a call from this #412-234-4519...telling me I just won $2600 travel dollars WTF are travel dollars? Anyway, I insisted they just mail me a cheque of what I won, or I could come and pick it up. The heavily indiscernible-accented (East IndianPakistaniNigerian???) man on the line questioned whether I was at least 23 years old...and had a valid Visa or MasterCard. When I asked him why he would need MY credit card info if I WON the prize, he said he would pass me on to another representative. He also said that they wouldnt mail me my cheque and I could not pick it up. I told him to stop calling my # and then hung up on his dirty a. Always a fun time fUKing around with these a$$holes. Kate.jackson@bnymellon.com
Comments
More likely to be phishing, than to be fraudulent telemarketing, although both use the "you won a contest, what's your credit card number" ploy.
Fraudulent telemarketing tends to have far higher rates of complaints against the phone number since they employ call centers and monetize the fraud through phony "authorizations" for "products" or "services", while criminal phishing tends to cycle through throw-away phones, monetizing by running up fraudulent charges for resalable products.
Only one other complaint so far.
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