People are scum. I just spent 5 hours helping my 87 yo mom contact banks and credit card companies to recoup money. She called a number she found on google for customer service to cancel Youtube TV and instead called some scammer that convinced her to download an info sharing app onto her iphone. Yup, he emptied her bank accounts and bought numerous online gift cards. I deleted the app but who knows what else they retrieved.
Pardon me while I throw myself under the coming snow plow.
What was the exact name of the app they had her download and what was the phone number she called?
Lemme at 'em.
The guy's name (as recognized by Siri) was David at 804-491-8507. The app is called Iperius Remote Desktop.
@ChippySuave @th3j35t3r
That phone number is in a range assigned to a telecom called Bandwidth. Here is their reporting form:
https://www.bandwidth.com/legal/report-a-phone-number/
@th3j35t3r @ChippySuave
I can't find it searching for the phone number, which might indicate Google already has identified the page as a scam and removed it. I tried searching for an image of the phone number but the image search functions aren't good at telling text apart.
@ChippySuave @th3j35t3r
It seems that Bandwidth has a history of selling services to scammers. They got a cease and desist letter from the FTC last November.
You can look up who controls with numbers at https://www.telcodata.us/search-area-code-exchange-detail
https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/warning-letters/cease-desist-letter-bandwidth-inc
@AlphaCentauri @ChippySuave
It's a https://textnow.com number currently. It used to belong to a person called Chad N**** outta Hanson, KY - but it's long since been recycled and used by scammers. Tick tock. 👍