Working with ethical hackers, Rav Wilding is hunting down the scammers plaguing our lives.
This is just a courtesy call to let you know, that as a valued customer we’re willing to offer you a monthly discount of 20% on your bills. All you need to do is share your promotional code with us.Honestly Ali, it sounds completely plausible. The patter is spot on, a standard opening gambit of any interaction between a customer and a company. The difference with this call is that Ali is a scammer and he’s reading from a carefully devised script.
Which takes us back to Ali. He’s employed by a group of scammers who have developed an incredibly clever ruse, tying the OTP to an imaginary promotional offer. It is intended to get you to share your code without thinking too much about the consequences. The truth is that Ali is nothing to do with O2 or any other mobile network, and is in fact sitting in an office in Lahore, Pakistan. If you share your OTP with him, he’ll immediately share it with his boss, Ahmad Sarfraz. Ahmad will then use it to reset your password, and within seconds be inside your mobile phone account online.
At this point in the call, Ali asks for a few final confirmations of your details, like your current address, and before you know it the call is over and he’s congratulating you on your newly discounted bills. He even knows exactly how much his imaginary 20% off your current bill is. He can see your details after all.
The supposed warehouse is in fact one of many “mule addresses” he uses in the UK. They’re collaborators in this criminal conspiracy who are getting a percentage of the profits, in return for the use of their property.
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