I'm in the middle of a work meeting, I get a call from 213-799-0709 out of Los Angeles, California. I don't know anyone in LA, CA, I let it go to voicemail. After the meeting, I check for a voicemail and there is one. A female computer voice left a snippet of message , "(voicemail begins)...press 1 now and you will be transfered to our 24 hour security...(voicemail ends)". I call the number back, no ring and no connection happens. I try a couple more times with a 1+, same thing. I Google the number and find 800notes.com, my suspicions are confirmed. Phone Scammers trolling for PCI and PII info.
I received a call from this number today. A recorded message stated that my account "has been locked." The recording then prompted me to press 1 if I wished to unlock my account or 2 if I "wished to leave." By this point I'm thinking this is a scam to get my card info. I was right.
I hit 1 to see what it would prompt me to do after that. I was told to enter my "16-digit credit card number followed by pound." I waited. I recorded the silence and asked if I wanted to enter my card number or leave again. So I hung up and called the number back several times and each time it would pick up the line, it hung up on me after 3-4 seconds.
I received a phone call, said was from Chase, and mt card was lost, to hit 1 to go to security, I hit 1, and said to hot 1 to reactivate, or 2 to exit, I hit 2, I have no Chase account. I called Chase and they do not own this phone number.
Got this call to, stating my Citi card was reported lost, call security or press #1 etc, I hung up. Called the # & after 1 second it disconnected. My card wasn't lost so called Citi card they couldn't verify the # was there's & so it's a scam. BEWARE. SCAM
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