FCC Issues Warning on 'Can You Hear Me?' Scams
The FCC warned consumers of what it’s calling “can you hear me?" scams. Commissioner Mignon Clyburn mentioned the scams last week as she and colleagues voted on taking up illegal robocalls (see 1703230035). “The scam begins when a consumer answers…
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a call and the person at the end of the line asks, ‘Can you hear me?’” the agency said in a Monday consumer alert. “The caller then records the consumer's ‘Yes’ response and thus obtains a voice signature. This signature can later be used by the scammers to pretend to be the consumer and authorize fraudulent charges via telephone.”