Seeing this now, it makes a lot of sense how the scammers would know to target me.
tl;dr is that some scammers knew I had an AT&T account, and called posing as some AT&T branch that could only speak Chinese (ostensibly serving NYC Chinatown). I think they're targeting 2nd-gen Chinese speakers and forcing them into likely broken Chinese to throw them off guard.
Seeing this now, it makes a lot of sense how the scammers would know to target me.
tl;dr is that some scammers knew I had an AT&T account, and called posing as some AT&T branch that could only speak Chinese (ostensibly serving NYC Chinatown). I think they're targeting 2nd-gen Chinese speakers and forcing them into likely broken Chinese to throw them off guard.