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General Listening Quiz

“Identity Theft – Script”


Listening Exercise

Listen to the recording on identity theft and read along with the conversation.

Woman: Hey, Brandon. What are you doing?

Man: Oh, You’ll like this. It’s a new website that helps you improve your writing skills for free.

Woman: Really? [Yeah.] That’d be really helpful.

Man: Yeah and I’m signing up right now.

Woman: Wow. Let me see that.

Man: Yeah. It’s easy. You just enter your name, your birthday, your address, your bank information. [What?] Your credit card number.

Woman: Wait, wait, wait. [What?] I thought you said it was free.

Man: It IS free.

Woman: Then, why do they need your bank and your credit card information?

Man: Well, you know, it’s just, you know, just . . . just to check your identity or something like that. But it, but it’s all free. What?

Woman: [That] doesn’t sound free to me.

Man: Well, you don’t understand.

Woman: It sounds pretty fishy to me. How do you know that this is a trusted website? Look. That doesn’t look like a secure URL.

Man: Well, you don’t understand. Look. It says right here on their page. Right here: “Our goal is help you learn. Trusting us. We knows how to help you in 15 days or, or below.” What? What?

Woman: That’s terrible English. Who wrote this? What country are they in? You need to help THEM with their English. I mean, this is a sure sign that they’re trying to probably steal your personal information [No . . .] and your identity.

Man: No, no, no, and look. Here is a picture of some of their staff. And they look honest. Hey . . .

Woman: You are so gullible.

Man: Hey, hey. What are you doing?

Woman: I’m shutting down your computer. I can’t watch my own brother fall for a scam like this.

Man: Ah. You just don’t understand.


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