Scammers are everywhere, even on Google Maps as one traveler found out when he needed to call Delta Airlines about a canceled flight.
), it appears as though scammers are replacing the legitimate hotline numbers on Google Maps with their own phone numbers. As Evers relates, his flight on Delta Airlines was canceled. When it became obvious that Delta's customer service number was swamped, he looked up a hotline number on Google Maps. When the party answered on the other side, Evers started to explain that his flight was canceled and he needed a new flight.
Worried that he was the entree in a scam meal, Evers hung up the call only to get bombarded by text asking him to pay five times the price of his original ticket to re-book. It turns out that the phone number from Google Maps that Evers originally called was connected to Delta’s local help desk at John F. Kennedy Airport. He also did some gumshoe work and found wrong numbers for American Airlines in Google Maps. Both numbers have since been corrected.
What might have happened to Evers is that the information he would have texted to the"airline representative," including the confirmation number for his"paid" replacement flight, would have been used by the scammer or one of his/her operatives to pick up the ticket at the airport where it might have been cashed in, sold, or used. Fake businesses are also popping up on Google Maps including scam locksmiths.
You could get confronted at any time by a scammer. As I wrote this article, my phone rang and the voice on the other end of the line claimed to belong to a Verizon representative."How are you doing tonight?" the caller said. Realizing that it was a taped scam call, I responded that my night was not going well and that a safe had fallen on my head from a window above me."Glad to hear that," said the voice in a cheerful manner. I hung up.
Had I continued on the call, I probably would have been asked for some personal information designed to hijack myAs Shmili Evers discovered, scammers are everywhere. Trust your gut. If something seems odd and doesn't make sense, you're probably being scammed.
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