Oct 28, 2013
Got a call tonight from 331-500-3469. The caller did not introduce himself, but spoke our native language, Hungarian. No accent. He claimed that I should have recognized him, but neither me nor my wife did. Then he said he is family, and we should know, and made us feel guilty that we did not recognize him. He said he is a cousin of mine, and there should be one name that must come to my mind. It so happens that my cousin in Hungary just got a kidney transplant, and I wanted to call him these days anyway. His voice was unfamiliar, although I thought he might be still under drugs and the phone distorts, too. And of course I felt bad by then, so i started to talk. But it was very weird because this person was only asking for information, not giving anything. So I was cautious, give out some info but nothing very specific. Asked how is he after the operation, and that i have heard good news about him from my parents. He went along with the conversation, said that yes, it was a serious operation, but it is all good now. Then this person started to tell me that our very good friend, named Feri, is coming to visit us (Feri is a very common Hungarian name), and that Feri has a very good business offer. When he insisted I must be able to figure out Feri's family name and I could not the line "dropped". So this person was "phishing", or scamming. He tried to get information out and trick us into something. He was making us guess about many things, and get the information told him by us this way. Luckily we did not get far, but we did bite on the bait due to the coincidence with my cousin's kidney transplant this week. BE AWARE!