# A Newish Scam

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-newish-scam/848674>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 28, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-newish-scam/848674 "2020-02-28T19:53:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-newish-scam/848674/1 "2020-02-28T19:53:56Z")

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Just new because of the time they called.

At 2 am we got woken up by a phone call, supposedly from my bank’s security office, saying our card had been compromised by a purchase in China, that they were blocking it, and would send a new one.

It soon became obvious that they had no information on us, and when I requested the guy (Indian accent, natch) give me my address or my account number, he said he would give me his name and employer id number. Big help.

I hung up on him.  
The new thing is that he was aware of the state I was in (but not the city) due to the phone number, no doubt, and apologized for calling so early, which is a switch.

We don’t have a caller id on the bedroom phone, but when I checked this morning it said Invalid number. Too early to be blocked by NoMoRobo.  
Just posting as a warning since the location and time of the call are new to me.