Last Friday I got a call from a Swiss number, +41 52 520 43XX, with the last digits changing on subsequent calls. The caller claimed to be from the Bureau of Statistics. She spoke English with a strong Eastern European accent. She asked which health insurance I use, which canton I live in, and then asked for my name. That last question raised a flag. When I asked which statistics office she was calling from, she just repeated, “your name please,” on loop. I hung up. Today I received another call. Different context, same pattern. This time it was supposedly a dentist’s office calling to cancel an appointment and asking for my name straight away. When I pushed back, same response. “Your name please.” I hung up again. Now I’m genuinely curious. What is this scam trying to achieve? My first thought was insurance fraud, but without an AVS number that seems hard to exploit. So what’s the angle here? Data harvesting? Voice confirmation? Something else entirely? submitted by /u/ag_h
Originally posted by u/ag_h on r/Switzerland