Mortgage

July 21, 2023

My bank

September 14, 2022

Just hangs up after answering the call

May 26, 2022

Bill collector

October 14, 2021

please block

September 21, 2021

M&T Bank

September 4, 2021

Payment

September 2, 2021

Some dude with a thick Indian accent and poor English says he is "Amity Bank" and told me that I was behind on payments. Red flags and alarms immediately go off in my head - Foreign caller? (check!) Talking nonsense shyt about an account that I do not have and a bank that I do not use? (check!) The scammer immediately becomes evasive when I ask for details about what payments and how much I am delinquent? (check!) Then he asked for my Visa card number and I purposely gave him a fake number and it took him awhile to reply back that the card number was invalid, probably only after trying to charge an amount to my card. (checkmate!) If someone calls you about a delinquent account, they should already have all your account information displayed on their screen. Since he disturbed me on my nice sunny afternoon, I decided to toy with him for another 15 minutes before he shouted profanities at me and I laughed and told him rude stuff about his mother. After he hung up, I googled this number and found this is an actual number for M&T Bank. Moral of my story: If you are a M&T Bank customer, this may be a valid call, or your call could still be this same Indian scammer spoofing the fake Caller ID number. If you are not a M&T customer and wondered why you got a call, welp, that is why they call it "phishing" - scammers robo-dial thousands of numbers and they hope to phish for gullible targets. And always remember this: scammers can spoof a fake Caller ID name and number faster than you can change your underwear. I am still amazed at the number of people who claim that a scam call is valid just because the Caller ID display looks legitimate, or if the scammer says your name. Marketing databases with millions of phone numbers associated with names and addresses are easily available for both legitimate businesses and scammers to use. Just because a caller knows your name, address, or names of relatives means absolutely nothing since scammers easily obtain that information to make the call sound legit.

April 23, 2021

Hopome

February 13, 2021

My caller ID shows this number as "AMENTIE BANK MG". What a misspelling of M&T Bank. That's why I wouldn't provide my social security number for the unpleasant agent.

July 24, 2020

Insurance sales

June 30, 2020

Not a scam

April 14, 2020

F**k them

November 19, 2019

M&T Bank

November 5, 2019

M&T

July 25, 2019