Receiving scam call

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MissPickle wrote: »

I've been chatting to a bloke for 2 years & I reckon he's a scammer.
Can't prove it though

Hardly a very effective scam if it has taken him 2 years and he still hasn't got round to trying to get your bank account details.


There's a big difference between a scam and a nuisance call.

MissPickle

Clifford_Pope wrote: »

Hardly a very effective scam if it has taken him 2 years and he still hasn't got round to trying to get your bank account details.


There's a big difference between a scam and a nuisance call.

No. Some do take years. I know coz I looked it up

25_Years_On

aardvaak wrote: »

Why is it that after receiving scam phone calls when I go to reverse number look up sites to register it there are no other reports - in the past there were lots?

You should be less concerned about scam phone calls considering you can recognise them. The numbers are often fake and probably change very quickly.

Cornucopia

Moved to Phones & TV.

LHW99

tommix wrote: »

I just had a scam call telling me "Emergency! 600 quid has been taken from my account!"..Even though I knew it was most likely a scam, I still damn near had a heart attack! I checked the number on the 'who called me' thing, and it was not listed..So I nearly had another heart attack..

Good sense prevailed and I phoned my Bank, who kindly informed me it was indeed a scam..Phew! True, I only had a £3.64 in my account so they wouldn't have got anything..But one can't help feeling somewhat violated by this sort of nonsense.:cool:

Had a few of these, each on a different "number" - the fun thing is that usually it comes through to the answer machine, so by the time my machine has finished and switched to record the scam robot only has a couple of words left before it cuts off - don't think its persuaded my answer machine to call the bank, but do hope they both enjoyed talking to each other.

brewerdave

Now I have number display on my phone I'm amazed by the number of different numbers that appear - but I have an answerphone and my rule is simple - don't know the number -don't answer:rotfl:

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MissPickle wrote: »

Did you actually answer the phone & talk to them?
I presume so, especially as the number isn't recorded as scam. Or how would you know it was a scam?
Everybody scams. You can't trust anybody.
I've been chatting to a bloke for 2 years & I reckon he's a scammer.
Can't prove it though
Usual story. Single stupid naive lonely British woman.
I didn't worry coz I just thought well I'm skint so...
He's white & was born in Britain. Then at the weekend he's on about Thailand & taking me there. Sent me links & pics. Apparently his "friend" owns the hotel.
Yeah... right

You'll be fine, all you need to do is to carry his luggage for him...

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We've just this week been plagued with the "Your internet will be cut off shortly..." messages for the first time. Every single one is a different number.

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choille wrote: »

But you have to pay to stop these calls - so in a way they are profiting from them.

But you don't have to pay BT, so again, they're not making a profit.

Mister_G

choille wrote: »

But you have to pay to stop these calls - so in a way they are profiting from them.

The BT8600 is less than £40 on Amazon. A small price to pay to eliminate the scammers.