Beware Of ‘Can You Hear Me?’ Phone Scam

DENVER (CBS4) – It starts out like the old Verizon commercials.
If you hear it, hang up right away. If you answer, if you say “yes,” then that response is recorded by a fraudster and used to authorize unwanted charges on your phone, utility bills, and credit cards.
“You say ‘yes,’ it gets recorded and they say that you have agreed to something,” director of consumer protection for the Consumer Federation of America Susan Grant told CBS News. “