My current ISP (who I have cancelled with, but it happens in a few weeks) called me to ask why I cancelled, but wanted to confirm my full name, date of birth and account number. I told her because she called me, I can't be certain she isn't a scammer, so I will have to call her back on the official number. She confirmed the official number (matched her calling number and one of their phone numbers deep in their website) and her name with spelling. I called back and the wait queue is more than 1 hour, but I can schedule a "call back" where they will call me when it is my turn in the queue.

Does anybody see what the problem is? I don't think they are going to find out why I cancelled.

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Well I gotta ask. Why did you cancel?

I did exactly this with my bank (supposedly) just a few days ago! The lady calls me, not the opposite, and has the gall to ask me to verify my identity.

She was shocked when I demanded that she did the same, and when she couldn't I told her to send me a verified anti-phishing compliant email, and hung up.

The people that do follow ups are usually not employees of the company nor the company itself. Maybe in your case they were. But a lot of times this function is outsourced to reputation management services who have not a slightest clue about scams.

They don’t deserve to know if they didn’t give an extension with direct line from the main line

This topic came up this morning on Twitter when Preston Psyche 😉 nearly got SIM swapped. I made some hopefully helpful changes on my ownT-Mobile account.

I freaky thing was that the scammer went to a Verizon store with fake ID to make SIM changes!

Damn!