SCAM ALERT. Had to share this which happened this morning. Wife received a call from 'Barclays' ( her bank) informing her that someone was trying to buy an item on ebay for £450+, in London. Because she doesnt live in London 'Barclays' flashed it up and stopped the payment. Now they wanted her to read out the code that the scammer was sending to her phone to stop the transaction. Only the message she received on her phone was from the real Barclays because the scammer was trying to buy something with her card. How they got her card details, name, address and phone number is another matter. I suspect a small garage where she recently bought some petrol, and I could be wrong. She/ we sussed that it was a scam and refused to give him the code the real Barclays had sent then the twat on the other end of the line got all abusive, posh voice too, very convincing, saying he would get into her head and scam all her money. Bastards. Be careful and warn others of this scam.
That’s terrible Tbh I never respond to anyone who rings me regardless. If they’re genuine then they’ll understand that and I just ring them on the number off the back of my card.
A bank will never ask you to give details over the phone. Scam Interceptors was an interesting programme on BBC. Some eye opening insights into the methods they use and how to prevent them. Episodes available on you tube if you type Scam Interceptors in. Had a call from someone purporting to be from SKY a while ago. Someone with an Indian accent. There was a problem and of course to fix it they needed me to confirm my bank details. I know SKY never ask you that over the phone so the conversation was quite entertaining. You can e-mail me, you have my email address. I can’t disclose that information over the phone he said. Well, ring me on my landline, you will have that number (he had rung on my mobile number). Silence. In fact tell me my account number. We can’t give account numbers over the phone. Laughter from me. So how do you know what account it is? Whilst we are at it, what is my name? Of course you don’t know you just put in numbers at random and dial them. Sound of phone cutting off. Once had one telling there was a problem with my computer, reckoned he was from Microsoft. Asked him what operating system I was using, reeled off a load of spiel as though that would convince me. Amazing I told him seeing as I don’t have a computer. Sound of phone cutting off.
My Daughter's been getting scammed on a regular basis lately through Santander.Loads of declined transactions kept popping up on her phone(she's got some sort of app that pings up when she tries to purchase something).The Bank gave her a new card and cancelled her old one but she had the same problem starting up last week? I've had it done twice to me some years ago on visa cards,the bastards maxed one out to the tune of £5400,I knew nothing about it until I got a pull from my bank manager at my local RBS.The fly twats had somehow got my information,phoned up and requested a new card for some address in Macclesfield Cheshire(Because I'd apparently moved there and lost my card)and proceeded to go on a shopping spree in Manchester,twice to buy £2000 worth of dollars from travel agents.Obviously due to not getting statements I was oblivious to the fact that I was accruing large amounts of interest. Took about 4 months before I was finally cleared of any guilt and I have to admit it freaked me out a bit,more so that on one occasion they tendered my 'driving licence' as proof of identity...I don't even drive FFS!! Take it easy,both of you,sadly it's rife!!
Scam callers etc is a plague unfortunately. I think you have to be quite blinkered to not see the signs and I am sure everyone her has encouraged family members especially Mum and Dad to be vigilant. If it smells like crao it usually is... When I get calls from Indian marketing companies asking for 2 minutes of my time, I say 'sure, how much are you paying me '..., when they reply I dont understand, I say 'well you're getting paid to do the research and so I want my slice of the pie'... goes quiet quickly... GOODBYE!
I don't think 'blinkered' is entirely the right word to use.Some of these bastards can be extremely convincing and come across as very 'caring' towards the situation. So maybe 9/10 will rumble it straight away because they've seen the type of programmes Cityzen has mentioned,or read about it in the papers,the con experts expect that and wait for the 1/10 that know nothing about it? It's rife!!
I've seen it once and seem to remember something similar to what T.T describes? On the programme,the bloke from 'scam interceptors' was into some twat trying to fleece some unsuspecting woman.He was desperately trying to phone the woman to warn her about an incoming call she was about to receive,which was the next part of a scam that she'd already played into and how to deal with it.The woman was surprisingly oblivious that they were scammers,she was an ex-policewoman.
Amazing how they get info. When I changed VPNs the new one did a check for you on your details and any e mails you use and credit cards. Turned out the email addressI used to register with City Independent had been part of a data breach,. It had been used on 5 occasions in the USA for people accessing sites. Someone had used my card in the USA, don’t know where they got that from, at some ATMs with no success as the did’t have the PIN number. Must have cards they can do forgeries on.Contacted bank who confirmed it and issued a new card.
They have saved some people a lot of money. Some seemingly bright ones are easily duped.There have been distressing ones where they were fooling people with dementia that they saved. One good one was when their ethical hacker got into the camera system of one of the scam centres in India and you could see and hear them. It was a huge room with loads of them in. Even better when they rang them and they denied who they were and what they were doing when you could see the person they were talking to on camera.
We did spot the signs and the bastard got abusive on the phone because we wouldnt go along with his scam., I'm just warning others of the scam. They got **** all off us.
