Big increase in scam calls following opening new bank savings accounts

penners324

How would 'returning to branch banking' help stop scam phone calls?

Bigwheels1111

Just a thought, FD & HSBC use a foreign call centre for their fraud team.
So when you get a call, do you believe it’s real or not ?.
What a world we live in.

JSmith321

friolento said:

This is very likely just coincidence.

The way many of the scamsters work is that they call random numbers. As soon as they get a human answering, they mark your number as a “positive” and will incessantly call again, randomly changing their “ID” and their story. Blocking their number has little effect as it is most likely spoofed, anyway.

In your phone’s settings, you can block unknown callers (i.e. callers not on your contact list), so that they get transferred to your voicemail. Genuine callers will leave you a voicemail. Scamsters will rarely if ever leave a voicemail. 

Yes calls are now all digital via the router where I block ranges and each new scam call - unfortunately it's very easy for the scammers to spoof numbers. My phone is becoming almost unusable now since 9 out of 10 calls are scams.