MAC code scammers/slammers - Talktalk?

Froggitt

Rather weird phone call just now. Came up on phone as from 067434193.

Thick Indian accent. Said she was from Talktalk and could I give them my MAC code received from my current broadband supplier.

a) Ive been with Talktalk for as long as I can remember
b) Ive not asked for any MAC codes

Asked them for some proof that they were from Talktalk but she just kept on reading from the script.

Is this a version of a banking phishing scam - ie they make 1000 phonecalls a day and eventually they will find someone with a MAC code, and who may be foolish enough to give it to them? Chuck enough spaghetti at a wall and some of it will stick?

Im still no wiser as to whether they were from Talktalk or not....maybe another broadband company is using Indian call centres to recruit new business.

PS Had to keep asking her to repeat what she was saying, one word at a time as I wasnt even sure it was English she was speaking. No point having a scam if the person youre scamming cant understand you. Slight flaw identified in that scam IMHO.

Buzby

I cannot see how this can realistically be a slamming scam, as a MAC code is not something a call recipient would have UNLESS they were planning to switch suppliers. It might have been an erronious follow-up from TT (who have a love of offshore call centres) and were using the wrong script.

Froggitt

Exactly

they make 1000 phonecalls a day and eventually they will find someone with a MAC code, and who may be foolish enough to give it to them? Chuck enough spaghetti at a wall and some of it will stick?

Say each of us changes broadband once every 2 years.....theyll hit maybe 10 or 20 people out of each 1000 they call, in the process of switching.