I've just fallen out with my wife. Not badly but over a point of principle. She's a fraud investigator for a major bank ( don't go there ! )
Anyway, like most people I have some credit cards. Tonight, my mobile phone rang, I answered it and some very pushy lady ( not a native English speaker ) asks for me by name. Ever suspicious, I ask who's calling. She then goes on to say she is calling from the credit card company backed quite coincidentally my my wife's employer.
OK say I, it's is me, how can I help ? Next thing she says is that before she can proceed she needs to security clear me and asks for my year of birth. Hold on a cotton pickin' say I, how do I know you are who you say you are ?
She says she can tell me anything I want to know once I'm security cleared. I say, I'll tell her anything she wants to know once I know she's not a criminal trying to steal my identity and how does she propose to convince me of that ?
Tell me your year of birth she says. No say I. Tell me something which persuades me that you are calling from my credit card company first.
I can't do that until you are security cleared she says. Then I can't help you say I. You are going to miss out on an important update to your account she says. Shame about that say I but I guess I'll have to live with that.
At this point she gets quite aggresive and starts talking over me. I hang up.
Wifey has overheard my side and is curious to know what was said. I tell her and she gives me earache saying it's standard procedure. Maybe so, say I, but they'll have to think of a cleverer procedure.....
Bit of a huff all round now......
So.....what's the vote......scam or sales pitch ?
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