Ya’ll remember the good old days when scam calls came with robot voices? Just one word and you’d put down the phone because normal people don’t talk like that. Then you’d go about your day feeling mildly annoyed (ugh, how did they get your phone number?!) but also secretly pleased because you were smart enough to avoid it.
Yeah those days are long gone and scammers are getting so good it’s almost like they went to school for it.
Certified criminal undercover
The most recent in this string of upgraded scams is the one involving Touch n Go (TnG). And it’s done so well that even though we’ve been writing about scams for years, it still happened to one of our colleagues. Unless ofc he doesn’t read our articles💢
Yes, this is him. We would never scam yall
Meet Umar: our marketing guy, a handsome guy, and the guy who’s always first to arrive in the Cilisos offis and therefore opens the door for all of us.
Umar got a call from “TnG” and they had a great offer for him
So here’s how the scam works: The scammer pretends to be a TnG rep, and they offer you a new TnG card or some kind of card upgrade. They might even offer to show you their ID card if that gets you to trust them a bit more. In Umar’s case, the call came from Whatsapp.
Scammer’s phone number and Whatsapp profile photo
He answered the call like he would any other. There was however a short moment where Umar…
