- Apr 13, 2013
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Oh No! You forgot your Gmail password and need it back fast! The solution that may occur is to find out a Gmail Customer Service number. And an obvious way to find out this number will be to ask Professor Google himself. So a quick quick search will actually provide a host of toll-free numbers to call, including this one: 1-844-66x-xxxx. Problem solved right? All we have to do is call.
However if we do another search, but this one using the above phone number we will see that the same number also is for FaceBook Customer Service. Curious, no?
On calling this number one will immediately intimate that this is from some call center in India. But they are MORE than happy to help you- all you have to do is to go first to a major retailer (I assume the Retailer will change depending on the country you are calling from) and buy an ITunes card. When you have this, just call them back and give them the 16 digit security code. After that they will give you a new password, thank you and hang up.
Yes, indeed, you have just been scammed. And this scam does not just pertain to the number I gave above but also for the oodles and oodles of other such scam Customer Service numbers (and many of the FaceBook scam numbers are on FaceBook itself!) listed in Google search.
Although I am certain that no MT member would ever fall for this drivel, one must ask why multi-billion dollar companies like Google and Facebook would allow this crap to exist ON THEIR OWN SITES whose only purpose is to defraud their users.
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However if we do another search, but this one using the above phone number we will see that the same number also is for FaceBook Customer Service. Curious, no?
On calling this number one will immediately intimate that this is from some call center in India. But they are MORE than happy to help you- all you have to do is to go first to a major retailer (I assume the Retailer will change depending on the country you are calling from) and buy an ITunes card. When you have this, just call them back and give them the 16 digit security code. After that they will give you a new password, thank you and hang up.
Yes, indeed, you have just been scammed. And this scam does not just pertain to the number I gave above but also for the oodles and oodles of other such scam Customer Service numbers (and many of the FaceBook scam numbers are on FaceBook itself!) listed in Google search.
Although I am certain that no MT member would ever fall for this drivel, one must ask why multi-billion dollar companies like Google and Facebook would allow this crap to exist ON THEIR OWN SITES whose only purpose is to defraud their users.
End Rant...
