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by prawn 848 days ago
I feel for legit employees with strong accents. In an era of getting 5-10 calls a day from OS scammers, I had a call from a woman with an accent about an invoice. I was curt and ended the call quickly. Turned out that her wording was just ambiguous and she was trying to pay my invoice to her employer's company.
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Language barrier or whatnot is one thing, but I was having issues with the methodology of it. I’d have had similar levels of concern (perhaps less suspicion) if it was someone who spoke English fluently with no accent. There’s absolutely no reason they needed to confirm information from me to make a transaction between two bank accounts I own!