How It Works
The Eavesdropping Scam is quite sophisticated. First, the scammer calls a potential victim from an unknown number and, since 79% of unknown calls go unanswered, leaves a voicemail. In the message, the scammer is heard talking to another person about the potential victim, claiming: “I’m trying to get ahold of them right now.” Similar to the Wangiri Scam, the Eavesdropping Scam relies on the victim being so interested that they choose to call back. Once the victim returns the call, the scammer can run a variety of scams, most commonly offering fraudulent tax relief services.
The scam avoids most call
protection services because it does not feature any of the typical scam
call markers:
1) The calls use legitimate numbers,
2) people call the
numbers back,
3) the call sounds very personal despite being a mass
volume robocall, and
4) the content of the voicemail is so vague that it
does not include any common fraud-related keywords. more
