# What Just Happened? (attempted phone scam?)

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 12, 2018, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-happened-attempted-phone-scam/808720 "2018-02-12T21:29:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-just-happened-attempted-phone-scam/808720/15 "2018-02-13T02:19:35Z")

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> [@Jack\_Batty](#):
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> Because at that point I didn’t know it was a scammer.

Please review the information in post#2 so you don’t get scammed again.

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