A sophisticated scam call
This is from a Reddit post, and you can read it here. This is all cut-and-paste from the post. Read it thoroughly because this is a very impressive scam, and many people are falling for it.
Everyone be warned there is a scam call going around that is really sophisticated. I am in the tech world and it sounded believable so a lot of people will fall for this. I found a previous post that was similar 5 months ago. The number that called was different. I was called from 6503365182 The caller is has an American accent and will say someone has attempted to recover your account and change the phone number on file. They also will have your name, the device you are using (in my case a galaxy s23 ultra) and your city/state. They will tell you to click the notification they sent to block the "hacker" the notification will say xxx is trying to recover your account from California. This immediately set off red flags. I told the caller I clicked yes (which I didn't) then he says the update failed on his system. Told him I was gonna turn on 2fa and he wanted to try to block him one more way. Had me navigate to the recovery keys section in my Google account and wanted me to type it to him. Has anyone else had this call recently?
Google will never call you unless it's a business account.
Never click links in a text/SMS message unless you are 100% certain it is safe and real.
Good luck and be cautious.
