Just had a call from an asian gent informing me that my BG bill is so overdue that I am about to have the bailiffs drop by.Surprised me because it says on the top due 16th Sept.I told him I will call and pay it. "No it's too late for that,we must sort it out now" Got rather shirty so I hung up on him.Worringly he knew the EXACT amount.BG say they know nothing of it and don't have my mobile number anyway.
There is another scam going around at the moment - A guy (usually with a West African accent) calls and says he is from BT and that if an outstanding debt is not paid immediately, he will cut the phone line. To prove this, he asks you to put the phone down and to then try to make a call out, but when you try to phone out, the line is dead. He then calls back and asks for your debit/credit card details to make an immediate payment. Many people have been duped into paying this money over the phone. All the guy is doing is pressing the mute button on his own phone, but not hanging up. So when you try to call out, the line appears to be dead as it is he who needs to terminate the call, not you. He can hear you trying to call out, but as soon as you put the phone down, he rings you back. Beware.
I don't follow that logic. If I put the phone down, the call is terminated. It doesn't matter a toss what he's doing at his end.
That's crazy talk. If someone hangs up on you the line goes dead. You can't ring someone up then have indefinite control of their line.
Well that is the scam, chaps, and it has fooled enough chumps in the world. I can only tell you what I have read/heard over the last days.
ER has a Galaxy S4. The choice of the discerning man about town. And like my cock it works perfectly.
Honestly, between two DDI lines, an inbound call cannot be terminated. It can on a mobile, it can via a switchboard but if anyone calls a landline, the recipient cannot terminate the call. Try it. Get somebody to phone you on a DDI landline, you can hit the receiver all you want, the guy calling you is still there. This type of scam has been going since last century, by the way.
