Scammed by Tony

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Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about a woman who was scammed trying to cancel an account over the phone and end up placing a similar call of their own.

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00:00for the scam to tell you about this morning this time it involves spotify a detroit area woman

00:11thought she was communicating with someone from the popular music streaming service but she was

00:17not and now she's telling her story to fox 2 news take a listen in here to it was supposed to be an

00:22easy fix cancel an extra account associated with her digital music service spotify completely

00:28violated and devastated but it turned into anything but unable to find a customer service number for

00:34spotify last thursday alita vickers called her bank to cancel the account the huntington bank

00:40representative tried to help by giving her a spotify support number she found online alita says

00:45she called and would soon watch her money disappear she immediately hung up and called huntington bank

00:51who she says looked into it and eventually discovered the original bank representative who

00:56tried to help olita never verified the number and when we called it was clear the ambiguous

01:02helpline was just a front my name is tony i'm helping from what what am i calling we have what what am i

01:11calling where are you calling do you don't you know what number you're looking for nine hundred and

01:16twenty four dollars was taken out of this woman's account from a person on this phone number was that

01:22you can i speak with your manager manager

01:25she called the phone number of spotify to cancel her account and the person on the phone accessed her

01:36bank and her computer phone music turned into another hang-up luckily while we were at their macomb

01:43home for the interview alita says huntington bank reimbursed her and is now investigating with

01:49police in the meantime she wanted to warn others i do want to call don't no come on no not worth it

01:57man what are they gonna do you don't know who you're dealing with well you don't know anything

02:03they do is you give them your credit card information they're gonna call me back repeatedly what else can

02:08they do i mean i don't i don't want to get i don't want to um don't want to start a war with tony

02:16with tony but don't worry be happy live i'm not sure anything can really actually be done but if

02:21you call someone it gives them a number right right and then when we come to work tomorrow and then

02:28they're like none of our phone lines work because someone changed something and someone destroyed our

02:34whole system then when that happens it would not be worth it for you chuck it would not be worth no

02:40because you could just here you want to call pretend you're called hello hello is this the spotify

02:47helpline yeah um sure yes totally tony is this tony my name is tony oh tony how are you i am doing

02:57great we were just how are you we just heard about you i heard you're having some issues with your

03:02something what are you having your problem my account which which account the spotify i'm having

03:10a hard time finding it right now if you could please give me the credit card number that is

03:15associated with your spotify how about can i just give you my account my spotify account number

03:20sure you can try i'll try that okay the number yep it's two seven four five eight eight two one

03:28it's not working i think the only way is to get your credit card number oh okay sure it's visa

03:38a visa yeah it's uh four two one seven oh yeah one two three three yes three two one three

03:48oh boy okay four one three three thank you okay

03:53oh there's some i have all of your money

03:57i have all of your money bye bye tony bye loser tony bye you big dumb loser john wayne bye tony bye bye

04:06that's better there now you you had that experience

04:15yeah don't deal with anyone who knows about the dark web and how to do stuff

04:30tony don't know because no one here can fix it tony is just in guadalupe or something he doesn't know

04:37that's what you think i have all of your money yeah oh man all right don't call tony ever people

04:46no don't call tony yeah oh people thought i really gave out my credit card number oh my god

04:51you're ridiculously stupid you know what's amazing though like i'd give out my credit card number on

04:57the air i just pulled those digits out of my ass you still need an expiration date and the three

05:02code on the back too that's true oh my god you know what's amazing jesus christ if that is

05:09someone's visa oh if it actually could be a number thanks for your credit card number dummy

05:18guys here i don't i mean i don't know what to say i don't know what to say either i'm not gonna say

05:23you can't help everyone that's amazing oh my goodness i'm pretty sure we all just learned

05:29something what i should do is go in the podcast and bleep it out i think you really did give it

05:33out yeah you big dummy you big dummy number out on the live radio no i believe that you have to say

05:41that yeah i know breaks my heart yeah it does it breaks mine too like what were you supposed to do

05:47it would just be like five five five five five five five five five you were just trying to make

05:54it more fun oh god yes yep you know anyways random numbers i don't want to get my wallet actually the

06:00actual it's authentic yeah yeah i really want this roll to go well and one two three on the back

06:09honest to god

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