Scam advice

born_again

Jami74 said:

Bigwheels1111 said:

When are people going to learn, Never trust anyone or anything.

Don't be harsh, it's a teenager. Thankfully they have an adult helping them through it and they'll hopefully never get caught out again.

Exactly.
Everyone can get caught out at some point. Not matter what they do or how intelligent they are.

Bigwheels1111

Jami74 said:

Bigwheels1111 said:

When are people going to learn, Never trust anyone or anything.

Don't be harsh, it's a teenager. Thankfully they have an adult helping them through it and they'll hopefully never get caught out again.

I’m not, it can happen to the best of us.
The other half ordered a sample makeup from the USA.
It never arrived as the free samples were labelled at £125 in value on the customs label.
We got an invoice, but to our knowledge she never ordered anything at that price.
So never did anything about it. Customs invoice.

Turns out it was a monthly subscription, £100 was billed on her card next month.
Got on to the bank and they knew all about them.
They said contact the company as none of the emails mentioned monthly prescription.
They said ok but due to currency conversion she lost out on £8.
She learned her lesson or so I thought.
About 3 weeks later I can in from a shopping trip and hear her on the phone, yes I pay you £25 and you send me a £50 fuel card.
As I charged down the hall and grabbed to phone and bank card out of her hand, screaming what the Fxxx are
you doing.
I then took over the call, the scammer from America was saying sorry and as a good will gesture etc etc.
I said F off and put the phone down.
Lessons learned.
As I’ve said trust nobody.

SiliconChip

cymruchris said:

SiliconChip said:

cymruchris said:

Hebrews12 said:

My teenage daughter has fallen for a scam text that looked like it was from Evri and entered her bank card details to pay for redelivery. She also put in our address, her mobile number and her date of birth. She's contacted the bank who say she needs to contact them again in 15 days time but is there anything else I should do - other than have a word with her her which I've done!!  Thanks.

Keep a close watch on her credit files for any fraudulent applications....

If she's under 18 it's probably not necessary as she shouldn't be offered (or accepted for) credit and therefore I'd assume won't yet have any CRA entries.

You're assuming she's under 18 - a teenager can be 18 or 19. The OP hasn't clarified an age yet.

I haven't assumed anything, the very first word of my post is "If". I suggest you read what's written before jumping to an unwarrented conclusion.