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has TT sold my details?
skea56
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Got a phone call this evening purporting to be from TT about a suspicion attempt to hijack my broadband.Now normally I would put the phone straight down as these things are normally rubbish but we have had strange drops in speed of late so thought it might be genuine enough.
went thru a whole speech about malicious spyware stealing secure info and wanted me to run some event viewer app-was totally shocked and amazed when I told him there was over 4000 error events coming up.
at this point I realised it was a scam buy played sling anyway-didn't get too far as his next step was to get me to log into some "secure Microsoft site where an engineer will talk you thru getting rid of so many errors"
Ended the call immediately.
My question is how did he get my details?He knew my name address and postcode that I was the account holder and even knew my TT acc number!
Has TT sold my details to a hacker??
Sk56
went thru a whole speech about malicious spyware stealing secure info and wanted me to run some event viewer app-was totally shocked and amazed when I told him there was over 4000 error events coming up.
at this point I realised it was a scam buy played sling anyway-didn't get too far as his next step was to get me to log into some "secure Microsoft site where an engineer will talk you thru getting rid of so many errors"
Ended the call immediately.
My question is how did he get my details?He knew my name address and postcode that I was the account holder and even knew my TT acc number!
Has TT sold my details to a hacker??
Sk56
Savings: £2 Jar: £804/£1000
Debts: Santander 1211.12/1780.47 (32% Paid) Total Debt Paid Off £12871.66
Debts: Santander 1211.12/1780.47 (32% Paid) Total Debt Paid Off £12871.66
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Name and address/postcode from the electoral roll. Guessing that you are either with TT or BT is not difficult: that covers half the landlines in the UK, so they've got a 50% chance of guessing correctly.
How he knew the a/c no.is more worrying, probably sold on by a TT call centre operative.No free lunch, and no free laptop
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Sold no... misplaced, yes:
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/feb/27/threat-to-millions-of-talktalk-customers"You did not pull yourself up by your bootstraps. You were lucky enough to come of age at a time when housing was cheap, welfare was generous, and inflation was high enough to wipe out any debts you acquired. I’m pleased for you, but please stop being so unbearably smug about it."0
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