Any other NI members get...

Nomad25

Used to get this diatribe on our ansaphone. We are members of TPS, think they can only restrict UK calls, not sure about Europe, definitely got no control over international, which of course is where most of the b l o o d y call originate.

Cherryscone

Wonder how many actually press 9 ?

piglet74

cooki2222 wrote: »

Well aint that prejudice of ya

well do the maths, its not rocket science, (and it aint prejudice either!!), person living in ireland, gets a text to tell you they have a large parcel to be delivered, but they happen to be based in sierra leone, you google the number, and low and behold,its a scam, whats prejudice about posting that to warn others?????
do you get many "real" texts massages from west africa asking you to call them about a pending delivery they have for you cooki???

Paddy2eyes

I got the call too yesterday. We are registered with TPS, number is ex directory and I give that number out to next to nobody. I expect they are using predictive dialers.

piglet74

i have "Anonymsus caller rejection" on my landline, u do pay a bit extra for it, but it means no one can contact you house if they try to "with-hold" their number, is the number coming up as with-held?

Cherryscone

I rarley answer now unless its a local number or 1 i know.

Girlzmum

I received the text as well - not impressed. :mad:

piglet74

i got a phone call to my mobile yest a guy, very bad, broaken english, says he was calling from the european lottery commission, to see if i wanted to be entered into their draw for £3500,

scandarahar

piglet74 wrote: »

i got a text like this last week, i posted it on "scams" it was a text from International parcel deliveries or something like that, and wot made me think it was a scam was it was an number starting +232, and i knew that was the old code for belfast years back, so i checked it on google, its serrie leone!! so its defo a scam, butr it wud be so easy to fall for this time of year, Crimbo prezzies getting delivered and all, so be careful!

As soon as you dial you are charged £15. They call themselves IPS (International Parcel Services) and will also send a card through post claiming they were unable to deliver and to phone the number listed to arrange re-delivery.

Please pass this on to everyone you know, as receiving the card through the post may mislead a lot of people into dialling.

Colin_Kee

Interesting Taken from Guardian On-line last week

"After analysing information on viruses and internet worms taken from more than 500,000 machines around the world, security experts at PC Tools have pinpointed November 24 as the potential peak of malicious software activity for 2008.
Data from 2007 showed that the high point of action from viruses, worms and other internet-based attacks came three days before America's Thanksgiving holiday, leading them to suggest that the same day could prove the bleakest 24 hours of this year.
The company says the increase in virus activity could be the result of internet shopping in the run-up to Christmas, as millions of users begin going online to purchase gifts for their friends and family.
With the chance for criminals to access financial details, online shoppers make an attractive target for the writers of malware.
The number of people shopping online this Christmas is expected to grow again this year, with internet sales in the UK alone predicted to hit £13.16bn – an increase of 15% over 2007.
More people are expected to use the web for their shopping as a way of finding lower prices to help them beat the credit crunch.
But while security experts are expecting the traditional increase of malware over November and December, they have also warned of another source of potential attacks. Spammers and criminals have attempted to use the popularity of American president-elect Barack Obama as a way to trick users into downloading malware.
A flood of emails purporting to link to a video of Obama's acceptance speech were actually connected to a trojan horse program which would compromise the target's PC. Meanwhile, a separate burst of spam messages contained a file called BarackObama.exe, which, when activated, places a rootkit on the victim's machine and opens it up to hackers around the world. ""

Obviously same applies for phone line scams