I had the same experience that Ryan had. I called Bank of America immediately when the clerk told me the account was blocked. The Bank of America rep told me that they were taking precautions because of all the new purchases that I had on my card today. They wanted to make sure that no one had stolen my card and gone on a shopping spree. Several phone calls were made to my home from the number in question. They asked for my social security number, but I would not give it to them since it was an unsolicited call. Because of the conversation I had with the rep earlier in the day, I believe that it is actually Bank of America calling, but I still wouldn't give out sensitive information over the phone unless I made the call to Bank of America myself.
I got the call a few times from that number today but I missed all of them. When I called back, I was told to provide my credit card number (without telling me which credit card), and I was also told that my Bank of Amerian credit card got something alert sounded like a big fause trasanction (they didn't explain why). They asked me again for my card number and I didn't feel alright, so I hung up the phone.
Rec'd call almost INSTANTLY after making a payment via PayPal. It is Bank of America. They called to verify the transaction. I had also just used the card a few minutes earlier to pay my Tmobile bill on their website.
I verified this number with BofA's fraud department -- after some people at BoA told me it might be a scam. After getting the call from the 302 number, I called 800-432-1000, which I got from https://www.bankofamerica.com/privacy/Control ... horised_acc_use. Two representatives told me they didn't think it was a legit number, but couldn't be certain. I was finally transferred over to the fraud dept. and someone said that it indeed was them, and we went over the suspicious charges (which was me, but just out of the ordinary purchases).
I'm actually pretty happy with BoA about this. If only they could have their departments communicate with each other better. We basically thought it was a fraudulent call right up until the last guy we talked to.
This number called me twice over the past two days. 8:14pm and 8:19am. Each time I answered and the other line quickly hung up. I called back and was put on hold. I did not speak with any individual at this number. From my searching this call means someone has obtained your Bank of America Credit Card Info and has attempted to commit fraud with your account. DO NOT GIVE ANY ONE AT THIS NUMBER INFORMATION!!! I called Bank of America's Card Service number on the back of the card and they assisted me and told me to disregard this number as it is probably another attempt of fraud.