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Is this a scam call or legit
I got a call from +17787452453 said she has a great deal for fibre wifi and i get free one month trial. She asked me for my id number and I am not sure if the company usually asks for id before sett...
100% a scam. That's yet another phone number that appears to be owned by Iristel. They are a company that is well known for selling VoIP access to overseas scammers.
There are multiple ways they could know your address and none of them to do with Telus. Some possibly legitimate, some less so. Considering how much information online data brokers have on every single person, it wouldn't be hard to find an address to go with a phone number. Sign up for anything that needed both a phone number and an address? etc.
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Community Power User100% a scam. That's yet another phone number that appears to be owned by Iristel. They are a company that is well known for selling VoIP access to overseas scammers.
There are multiple ways they could know your address and none of them to do with Telus. Some possibly legitimate, some less so. Considering how much information online data brokers have on every single person, it wouldn't be hard to find an address to go with a phone number. Sign up for anything that needed both a phone number and an address? etc.
