Scam texts Re Lloyds Bank

IvanOpinion

mickW_2 said:

So still not convinced that these two scam texts were just LUCKY guesses by the scammers. How do we know they havn't got a list of Lloyds customers and their mobile numbers?

A more likely explanation is either you, your wife or a friend who knows both your details has been compromised and they have sent something to everybody on their contact list.

youngretired

I received one of these text the other day. Lloyd's hasn't been hacked as I do bank with Lloyd's, but I have 2 phones and the one that received the text is not the one that is registered with Lloyds.

dggar

mickW_2 said:

Thanks for all the replies. Yes I aslo get the usual scam texts and emails from fraudsters pretending to be Amazon Paypal and the other usual ones. But my point here is it can't be just 'LUCK' that my wife and I get the same scam Lloyds Bank one within 20 mins of each other and we both have Lloyds accounts. There are 20 odd well known banks and we have had no others for a while. If I got one then possibly just LUCK for the scammers but us both seems a bit hard to believe. Wife never gets scam texts normally as we dont use her number for anything other than our banks.  So still not convinced that these two scam texts were just LUCKY guesses by the scammers. How do we know they havn't got a list of Lloyds customers and their mobile numbers?

Why do you find this hard to believe?
 Nobody knows for certain how many others received the same scam text within 20 mins of either of you.
"More or Less" on Radio 4 covers this sort of thing regularly.

p00hsticks

Sea_Shell said:

We must be the odd ones out, as neither of us have ever had a scam texts pretending to be our Bank, HMRC, Sky, Amazon, Netflix, Post Office, or anyone else for that matter!!   

How have we managed to escape them!?!?     We've both had the same mobile numbers for years.

We never get them on our mobiles either - only occasionally on our landline (usually either saying our internet is going to be disconnected or Amazon Prime)

Sea_Shell

p00hsticks said:

Sea_Shell said:

We must be the odd ones out, as neither of us have ever had a scam texts pretending to be our Bank, HMRC, Sky, Amazon, Netflix, Post Office, or anyone else for that matter!!   

How have we managed to escape them!?!?     We've both had the same mobile numbers for years.

We never get them on our mobiles either - only occasionally on our landline (usually either saying our internet is going to be disconnected or Amazon Prime)

Sods law, we'll probably be inundated with them now....but then hmmmm does that mean MSE has been hacked???

Cause and effect and all that!!!!

colsten

mickW_2 said:

  I rang Lloyds Bank main number to report this and the young man's attitude was shocking saying "Oh I get these texts all the time just ignore them"  I pointed out that their database must have been hacked into and he kept saying no it hasn't. So I did an online complaint form.   

If you are hoping for some sort of compo, think again. You won't get a penny for this, trust me. And the young man in Lloyds will not be reprimanded - more likely he will be congratulated for having tried to calm you down. It's not his fault that you didn't.

dcs34

mickW_2 said:

Thanks for all the replies. Yes I aslo get the usual scam texts and emails from fraudsters pretending to be Amazon Paypal and the other usual ones. But my point here is it can't be just 'LUCK' that my wife and I get the same scam Lloyds Bank one within 20 mins of each other and we both have Lloyds accounts. There are 20 odd well known banks and we have had no others for a while. If I got one then possibly just LUCK for the scammers but us both seems a bit hard to believe. Wife never gets scam texts normally as we dont use her number for anything other than our banks.  So still not convinced that these two scam texts were just LUCKY guesses by the scammers. How do we know they havn't got a list of Lloyds customers and their mobile numbers?

I'm a Lloyds customer and not received any such text.

colsten

dcs34 said:

I'm a Lloyds customer and not received any such text.

FWIW, so am I, and I didn't either.

jimjames

p00hsticks said:

Sea_Shell said:

We must be the odd ones out, as neither of us have ever had a scam texts pretending to be our Bank, HMRC, Sky, Amazon, Netflix, Post Office, or anyone else for that matter!!   

How have we managed to escape them!?!?     We've both had the same mobile numbers for years.

We never get them on our mobiles either - only occasionally on our landline (usually either saying our internet is going to be disconnected or Amazon Prime)

Really depends where you give out your mobile number to, the more limited distribution the less chance the scams will have to get it.
My father in law reacted similarly to MickW and just wouldn't believe that he had not been personally contacted as a result of bank being hacked.

If Lloyds really had been hacked then all Lloyds customers would be expected to get the text, I haven't received one either. As I have accounts with most banks I could think every single bank had been hacked if I took action on every text scam I get

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Nope, these are scammers.  My 10 year old gets these texts on her phone all the time from Santander - she doesn't have an account yet and we've never banked with them ever! They've just sent a random text that so happens to be a bank you're with.