This Sounds Like
A Phone Scam

I don't know for sure if a recent phone call was a credit card scam or not, but thought I'd share it with your readers.

When I got home from work today, Tuesday, May 8, there was a message on my answering machine from a representative from Card Services Bank of America requesting that I call them back. It was "really quite important that we hear from you. Won't take but a few minutes of your time."

I returned the call and was connected to "Joy" whose first question was, "What's your Social Security number?"

I laughed and said something to the effect that she was kidding of course. And she answered no, that she needed it to access my accounts. I replied that I would never give anyone my social security number over the phone. Then she asked for my credit card number. I again declined to give her that information, reminded her that she called me and asked why she called.

She told me she had called hundreds of people that day and couldn't remember all of them. I told her I was confident that my credit card bills were current, I wasn't close to the upper end, and I hadn't lost any cards so I was going to hang up and call Bank of America to inquire about this call.

I did, and they looked up my account (without the assist of my social security number). They stated that they had no notation on my account of any call being made by them or for them, and that it would have been noted if a call was to be made or made.

I called Verizon and the Randolph Village police just to alert them of the possibilty of another phone scam.

This letter is to remind people never, ever to give out this kind of information.

Linnie Laws

Randolph