Wednesday, May 18, 2011

POTENTIAL SCAM

I really don't know if anyone reads my blog at all, but I have an important announcement.

If you get a call from a Dr. Peacock, asking to leave a message with you (for your boss) and asks you to repeat the message back to him slowly, HANG UP THE PHONE.  I got this call yesterday AND today.  Yesterday I read the message back to him, though not word for word as he requested.  Then someone with a different voice called today claiming to be Dr. Peacock, asked if I had the message from yesterday, then asked me to read it to him slowly word for word. 

After discussing this with my boss, we think that he might have been recording my voice, and could be trying to use the recording to call others and play back the message. 

Yesterday he didn't leave a phone number, but today I was able to get it out of him.  It's a 312 area code number, and after tracking it down, I found out that it's a cell phone number based in Cook County.

So guys, you've been warned.