Clear, concise, and with respect. That seems exceptional for a modern parent.
Yeah, it’s funny. But, OP, please tell him he’s awesome for me.
Yeah, as someone who doesn’t get paid to do security, but does it anyway because it is their passion…
Dad is on the right side of things. Hijacking a phone connection like that is fucking HARD. I’ve been studying hacking since Zork.
While spelling out your email and password phonetically is a pain, its fairly secure.
To pedants: I said fairly, no one under observation from a three letter agency should use this.
What gives him away is that he assumes you know how to call him. Scammers don’t do that and ask instead to send them your emails and password per Mail or text message. Totally not a scammer, busted at first glance.
Some scammers are getting into sophisticated targeting, it’s not outside the realm of possibility they’ve sim-swapped Dad’s phone and intentionally worded it like that knowing you’d call that number and they’d be able to intercept it. Hell these days if they are able to get just seconds of your dad’s voice they’d even be able to have a convincing AI voice on the other end
You’d have fallen for it lmao
Hello, this is John Smith from amazon. here to reach you about your lifelock nortan antivirus. It is currently out of date, and is insecure. To fix it we simply must fix your cars extended warranty. Then we can simply refund your ebay purchase. Please stay on the line as i transfer you to my supervisor, John Smith the owner of chase bank. Thank you for waiting, here at McAffy we care alot about customer service. My apologize for the wait, now lets get that kracken wallet in order.
As a cybersecurity professional, I appreciate that he says for security purposes to call him directly with the details.
If he was really trolling though he should include a hyperlink to click.
