{"id":24723,"date":"2023-02-13T11:29:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T10:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/?p=24723"},"modified":"2023-02-21T15:01:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T14:01:56","slug":"spot-a-phone-scammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2023\/02\/spot-a-phone-scammer\/","title":{"rendered":"Spot a Phone Scammer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>B2 &#8211; Upper Intermediate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Phone scams are quite prevalent these days. Although this may seem like a little problem, it has had a large-scale impact and made the fraudsters very wealthy and their victims forever scarred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out this video to learn how to spot a phone scammer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"How to spot a phone scammer\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iBU1yWVnrNc?wmode=transparent&amp;rel=0&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vocabulary Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What is a &#8220;<strong>cold-call<\/strong>&#8220;, &#8220;<em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Cold-call<\/span><\/strong> scammers pretending to be from the HMRC are targeting households threatening legal action unless you call them back.<\/em>&#8220;? Use this word in your own sentence.<\/li><li>What does the idiom &#8220;<strong>out of the blue<\/strong>&#8221; mean, &#8220;<em>The HMRC will never contact you <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">out of the blue<\/span><\/strong> and threaten you with arrest.<\/em>&#8220;? Use this expression in your own sentence.<\/li><li>What does the phrase &#8220;<strong>at hand<\/strong>&#8221; mean, &#8220;<em>The issue <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">at hand<\/span><\/strong> is extremely time-sensitive.<\/em>&#8220;? Use this phrase in your own sentence.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Discussion Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What do you think about cold-calls? <\/li><li>Talk about some kind of calls such as this that you have received and how you handle it.<\/li><li>If you had the ability to help stop these scam call centers, what would you do?<\/li><li>How can you and others close to you prevent being phone scammed?<\/li><li>Do you believe that law enforcement could do a better job in this type of situations? How so?<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B2 &#8211; Upper Intermediate Phone scams are quite prevalent these days. Although this may seem like a little problem, it has had a large-scale impact and made the fraudsters very wealthy and their victims forever scarred. Check out this video to learn how to spot a phone scammer. 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