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It appears scammers have access to directv stream customer's phone numbers and maybe more.
I signed up for directv stream at the start of November. After about a week or so I had some issues and decided to cancel during the 14 day "buyer's remorse period" (DTV's term). That night I received a phone message from ATT Directv that I qualified for a 50% discount and number to call. Two days later I call the number and it is disconnected. After going around in circles with the ridiculous chat program, finally called and got an agent. The agent acknowledged that customers had been receiving these calls and they are scams. Of course, they weren't getting the information from Directv or ATT! Just clever scammers and she started quizzing me on hooking up to other wi-fi, etc.. Doesn't pass the smell test, so beware.
JefferMC
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3 years ago
I get calls multiple times a week "for AT&T DIRECTV customers." But, well, I'm not currently a DIRECTV customer. They have my name. They have my number. If they call and I say I don't have DIRECTV, they hang up and call the next potential sucker. So I do my duty to waste their time whenever I have the time and pretend that I'm counting my DIRECTV receivers, pretending I'm pushing the buttons, etc.
And, by the way, AT&T spun DIRECTV off into a separate entity that doesn't market using the AT&T name, so as soon as you hear the words "AT&T DIRECTV" out of their mouth, hang up.
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Ludwick577
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3 years ago
I never get calls from them.
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litzdog911
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3 years ago
Sadly, scammers have access to just about everything.
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JefferMC
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3 years ago
A long time ago, in a galaxy suspiciously like this one, "phone companies" annually published these things known as "phone books" that were a list of their customers' names, addresses and phone numbers, unless the customer paid an additional fee to keep their number "unlisted" or "unpublished."
Other companies would also compile this information into directories organized by phone number or address instead of name and those could be purchased or found in the local library.
Then people suddenly got worried about "online security." Then, OMG, horror upon horrors, you could search someone's name in Google and it might actually find this information that had been published in books for years, or could be gotten (for a fee, by this time) by pushing the magic sequence of buttons 4-1-1.
So, my name, and number, have been attached to each other in information made available via my telephone company and is readily available online. So it's not surprising that someone could call my number, knowing my name, and have about a 10% chance that I'm actually a DIRECTV customer. It's pretty good odds. It's the kind of information attack that mind readers have been using for years.
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