Comment by hamburglar

Security pro here. I came pretty close to falling for the “this is the power company and we are cutting off your power unless you pay the bill in the next 45 minutes” scam. It was late in the day during winter, so I knew if it got cut off, my small children were going to have a miserable night; and I was on a crowded bus and unable to get out my laptop to log into the website. I also knew my credit card had recently been rotated and that maybe I had forgotten to update it on the power company’s site. So I had a couple reasons to believe the situation could be real. The only thing that tipped me off was that they suggested the best way to pay quickly was to go buy iTunes gift cards and read them the numbers over the phone. If these boneheads had a way to take credit cards over the phone I might have been sunk.