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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
I don’t personally find this funny at all. They prey on vulnerable people.
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Yup. In my experience, these sorts of scams work on 3 types of people. Folks new to Canada, late 20's/early 30's types and elderly folks.
For the first one, they usually get folks where it may not have been uncommon where they used to live to deal with government services in bribes. "You owe us $5000. You pay me $1000 in ITunes, and I'll make it go away." is usually what you see there.
For the late 20's/early 30's crowd, it falls into inexperience. "Oh yeah, of course the government is 'with it' now. You totally can pay this bill by bitcoin!" is how they usually hit that bracket.
For the elderly folks, they tend to do a lot of fast talking, 'shuck n'jive' type of thing. Talk fast, talk in circles, stuff like "You've missed some payments, that's how this built up." kind of stuff.
They are pretty effective once they figure out what sort of caller they are dealing with.