[Maximo]

Originally Posted by QuickSilver

I had something similar happen - I got a very professional, automated voicemail saying that I was being sent a new debit card for security reasons, and to call the "number on the back of my card, xxx-xxx-xxxx" to activate it - my current card would stop working by the Xth..

Fortunately, I was lazy and called the ACTUAL # on the back of my card to say that I was travelling, and wouldn't be able to pick up a new debit card. At that point, they said they hadn't sent me any message about my account.

In retrospect, I realized that the message didn't identify which bank it was calling from. However, the vmail sounded very real. It even had that automated sound to the dates: "Your current card will deactivate on. Sep-TEM-ber. Ninth. At. Five. pee-EM."

Other than the static, the automated message we heard when we called the number sounded pretty good too.