The OTP conversation
One building or one lane. An afternoon.
Almost everyone has heard 'never share your OTP' and almost nobody has been walked through what the call actually sounds like. The gap between knowing the rule and recognising the moment is where the money goes.
How to run it
- 1
Print the poster and the script
One poster per floor or per shop front, and one script sheet for yourself. Both are in the printables room.
- 2
Knock in pairs, never alone
Two people at a door is reassuring; one is not. Take somebody the neighbours already recognise if you can.
- 3
Play the call, do not lecture
Read the script out as if you were the caller. Ninety seconds of hearing it beats ten minutes of being told about it.
- 4
Leave one number behind
1930. Written large, on the poster, near the phone. Nobody remembers a helpline they heard once.
- 5
Come back in a week
Ask one question: has anyone called since? The second visit is what turns a leaflet into a habit.
What to say
Hello, we are neighbours from the building. Two minutes, nothing to sign.
Can I read you a phone call? Tell me where you would have put the phone down.
"Good afternoon, am I speaking to the account holder? This is the fraud desk. A charge of forty-two thousand is going through in two minutes. To stop it I need the six digit code we have just sent you."
That is the whole trick. The hurry, and then the code.
No bank asks for that code. Ever. If it happens, put the phone down and ring the number on the back of your own card.
And if money has already gone, ring 1930 the same hour. Not tomorrow.
The boxed line is the fraud call itself. Read it in the voice rather than as a warning: hearing it is the part people remember.
How you know it worked
Count doors, not impressions. Twenty doors where somebody repeated the 1930 number back to you is a good afternoon.