This is what a scammer sounds like

By listening to these calls with phone scammers, you can avoid being a victim.

Ben Rothke

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Here is an ongoing list of audio recordings from scammers, based on my articles An easy & foolproof way to get phone scammers to hang up on you, and From Amazon Returns to Extended Auto Warranties — How Not to Get Scammed When Your Phone Rings.

Listen to their method, understand their tactics, so you, your friends and family, can avoid being their next victims.

Amazon scammers

Nearly everyone has an Amazon account. Which makes nearly everyone a target.

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77 — the last 2 minutes where he goes into a foul-mouth tirade is deleted.

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87 — This scammer wants me to load AnyDesk on my phone so he can connect to my Amazon and Citibank accounts to cancel a fraudulent Amazon order. A friend and colleague in the information security industry joins the call as my nephew, to which the Supervisor doesn’t like him asking prying questions, as it will expose his scam. To which the scammer subsequently disconnects the call.

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Ben Rothke
Ben Rothke

Written by Ben Rothke

I work in information security at Tapad. Write book reviews for the RSA blog, & a Founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance and Cybersecurity Canon.

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