EE Scam

Zedicus

Takmon said:

Sheldon_Cooper said:

Give it a rest, mate. You're twisting and turning like the proverbial twisty turny thing.  It's not "having a discussion", it's you changing your angle over and over, and trying to make out it's everyone else who's in the wrong.

You obviously haven't been reading my posts properly then because my opinion on the subject has remained the same throughout the discussion. Do you not understand the concept of a debate where people have opposing points of view?.

It's surprising how many people on this forum are unable to take part in a debate where someone has an opposing point of view without being personally insulted when everyone doesn't agree with them. Then when someone continues to maintain the same opinion it is somehow considered the wrong thing to do.... 

If you think you are debating anything, you are seriously deluding yourself. Your starting point was that someone should not have posted a warning in a forum with warning in its title. That was foolish at best and arrogant at worst. I doubt anyone would even consider that worthy of debate.
You then came up with the glaringly obvious: it's best if everyone knows all the signs of a scam. So obvious that no one disagrees, so no debate there.
All you've been doing is backtracking, then denying you were backtracking then trying to pretend that you are in some sort of discussion or debate, which you are evidently not. Why do you keep embarrassing yourself like this?

luvchocolate

This is getting really silly now. 
The op posted to warn about an ee scam.
I have no idea why this has gone this way. 
Maybe this thread needs closing 

badmemory

I thought when I received a phone call from "Amazon Prime" last week saying it was coming up for renewal at thirty nine point nine nine press one to renew, who could fall for that, laughed & hung up.  My mistake.  I had a call a couple of days later from a friend that I had ordered stuff for & had delivered direct, she had only pressed one.  Fortunately she didn't give any of my details.  Talk about an OMG moment.  People do fall for this stuff otherwise they wouldn't bother doing it.

Moglex

badmemory said:

I thought when I received a phone call from "Amazon Prime" last week saying it was coming up for renewal at thirty nine point nine nine press one to renew, who could fall for that, laughed & hung up.  My mistake.  I had a call a couple of days later from a friend that I had ordered stuff for & had delivered direct, she had only pressed one.  Fortunately she didn't give any of my details.  Talk about an OMG moment.  People do fall for this stuff otherwise they wouldn't bother doing it.

This is why these warnings are useful.

Most of the time I think most people will be reasonably wary of calls/texts/emails that might be scams. They can get caught out if the scammer strikes lucky and the message purports to come from a company or organisation with which the have recently dealt, and from whom they are expecting some communication.

Normally if they receive a message from HMRC about a tax rebate they'll just think ;"yeah, yeah, delete that", but if they are in the process of requesting a rebate and are expecting to hear from HMRC, there is a possibility that they might 'short circuit' their checking mechanisms, and think "oh, good, it's the message from HMRC I've been expecting."

If people are aware that a new batch of HMRC scam messages are doing the rounds, it might encourage them to even greater vigilance.