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My dad has been scammed out of £19,000
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Sobeboy15 said:
My advice to you is to report this to the police and they have some kind of online fraud department they will put you in touch with.We provide a central point of contact for information about fraud and financially motivated internet crime. People are scammed, ripped off or conned everyday and we want this to stop.
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When you report to us you will receive a police crime reference number. Reports taken are passed to the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau. Action Fraud does not investigate the cases and cannot advise you on the progress of a case.
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Two questions:
Why do people keep huge amounts of money in their current accounts? If you’ve got large amounts from pension lump sums or whatever, aren’t they safer in a deposit account with the same bank for now, even if the interest rate on them is rubbish?
Why have texts enabled on your internet banking and then ignore or be unaware of text messages?
would've . . . could've . . . should've . . .
A.A.A.S. (Associate of the Acronym Abolition Society)
There's definitely no 'a' in 'definitely'.0 -
Teapot55 said:Why have texts enabled on your internet banking and then ignore or be unaware of text messages?
b) You hear the ping, but don't look at it immediately because you're in the middle of something and a text can wait
c) You're on the phone to someone who you believe is working at your bank and they tell you you're about to get a text and not to worry about it0 -
Teapot55 said:Two questions:
Why do people keep huge amounts of money in their current accounts? If you’ve got large amounts from pension lump sums or whatever, aren’t they safer in a deposit account with the same bank for now, even if the interest rate on them is rubbish?
Keeping money in a savings account with online access, which almost all of them have these days, wouldn't stop a scammer. As the savings account is shown online, it would just be a tiny extra step to transfer money from the savings account into the current account. Anyone susceptible to fall for the scammers in the first instance would almost certainly not hesitate to make such a transfer. Or the spammers can do it themselves once they have access to the victim's online banking, which they will have once they managed to plant TeamViewer on the victim's device.
The real question is why, after years and years of publicity and despite prominent warnings in online banking, do people still fall for those telephone calls.4 -
But who was the original payee? Friend / family / business / savings...???0
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If they only changed the sort code as stated it is quite a coincidence that the account number for the new sort code was the same as the account number already held for the original sort code.0
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sheramber said:If they only changed the sort code as stated it is quite a coincidence that the account number for the new sort code was the same as the account number already held for the original sort code.
What can be changed is the Reference, which in some cases (e.g. NS&I, RCI, some Building Societies and Credit Unions) would direct the payment to a different account. Thus people have asked what the sort code of the "old" payee is / who the that "old" payee is.0 -
colsten said:
What can be changed is the Reference, which in some cases (e.g. NS&I, RCI, some Building Societies and Credit Unions) would direct the payment to a different account.2 -
colsten said:sheramber said:If they only changed the sort code as stated it is quite a coincidence that the account number for the new sort code was the same as the account number already held for the original sort code.
What can be changed is the Reference, which in some cases (e.g. NS&I, RCI, some Building Societies and Credit Unions) would direct the payment to a different account. Thus people have asked what the sort code of the "old" payee is / who the that "old" payee is.0 -
Yahoo_Mail said:colsten said:sheramber said:If they only changed the sort code as stated it is quite a coincidence that the account number for the new sort code was the same as the account number already held for the original sort code.
What can be changed is the Reference, which in some cases (e.g. NS&I, RCI, some Building Societies and Credit Unions) would direct the payment to a different account. Thus people have asked what the sort code of the "old" payee is / who the that "old" payee is.- Online: it asks me to confirm with the card reader. I didn't proceed as I don't have the card & the reader on me right now
- App: went through fine, using yet another new Reference, but only because the amount was less than £1,000. There's no way I could have made a payment for a higher amount without using the card reader.
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