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Beware Scammers about!!

Beware not sure if this is the right place to post this just got a call from a guy at Dt communications????? i have won £10,000 and a ipad yippee.

then my alarm bells went off and i told him i was in a meeting and it was not good to talk now and hung up.
the number is 01616567994 what gives it away as a scam is when you answer you get a ringing tone so they are ringing many people at the same time if you answer they grab you.

stay clear if you ask me,, shame it really wasn't £10,000 and a ipad as i am skint and unemployed right now with 5 kids and 1 one the way could have really done with it for Christmas...:(

stu
Oct - anchor win

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  • missk9
    missk9 Posts: 1,742 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Sorry you got ur hopes up with this scammers call.. but also thanks for the warning.. i save all these numbers in my phone under cr* p1 cr* p2 etc
    BACK and READY..... waiting on Royal Mail!!!
  • aw hope another win comes up soon. heres other people who have had the same number call them http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/01616567994 x
  • c5ryl
    c5ryl Posts: 643 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts
    I got a call from the exact same company but they were claiming that my computer was sending signals when it shouldn't have been.....think they were trying to hack my computer! I asked for their number to call them back and he put the phone down. The bloke sounded foreign and when I pressed 1471 the number was 002200!!!
    Thanks to all those fab compers who post:j:T
  • i had the same thing, i put the number up here to warn other people too but it was a diff num from the 1 u have posted so they r using more than 1!
  • Bmth100
    Bmth100 Posts: 1,037 Forumite
    Hm, Manchester area code, I used to live there. Damn scammers. :(
  • I have been receiving calls from this number for 3 days now. The call i answered started making a dialling tone so i hung up immediately. I rang the number from a landline to ask them to remove my number from the call list and the first person hung up on me. Then when I called back and asked them nicely to stop calling they insisted it was because I entered a competition to win an ipod, that I dont remember entering, and that I was being rude to them and they would not remove my number or stop calling me. Upon that the man hung up on me. I had to download a call blocking app for my phone so I dont have to put up with the calls anymore.
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