When my life is going particularly crazy I say - it's my life as a telenovela, in this week's segment they had to raise the ratings - so in the past month, having never called an ambulance in my life, I accompanied 2 family members to the hospital. (one was clearly not sufficient drama)
Then last night my son wakes me from sleep to tell me he had a car accident. So I'm wide awake and we sort things out. This morning I am calling all these unfamiliar numbers for insurance and tow trucks.
Then I get a call from an unfamiliar number and a voice recording says it's my credit card. I've had 2 unusual expenditures on my account, one for $1000 on itunes and one for $1200 on another gift card. If I want it go authorize it, I should press 1, but if I want to cancel it press 2. So of course I press 2. Then it tells me to go on hold, and plays very pleasant classical music. Then a man comes on the phone to discuss my credit card. And suddenly I say, I'm not comfortable doing this on the phone, I'm going to go into my bank and talk to them. And he says, but you called me. And I say, no, you called me. And I hung up and checked my bank account. No such expenditures had been made. It was a sophisticated scam.
I was so frazzled by my family in hospital, my son in an accident and then this phone call. It would have been so easy to go with it. I'm so grateful that I was able to just stop and think. I actually initially did believe it was real, but I have such distrust of technology, that I needed to speak to a real person, in a real storefront bank.
So I'm slightly hysterical but so grateful that my son is fine and so is my bank security! I also feel that bad things come in threes (complete superstition, I know, but it feels true) and that I've broken my current terrible run with not falling for this phone scam.
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