SCAM! Stay Safe Book for schools

pockitz

Just had a call to my business phone from a woman called Sam, claiming that she spoke to me in October about a books for schools campaign that has now closed and asked which school I would like to choose for the books to go to. I assume that she would then ask for money or something, but I hung up and clocked the number. Apparently this is an old scam, so keep 'em peeled kids.

Slinky

Good lord, are they still doing this one? I must have first heard of it about 20 years ago!

ETA when I was in the pharmacy the other day, I heard someone checking up on their stock of till rolls with a caller on the phone. Pharmacist told the staff member they buy from Amazon. Sounds like this was an updated version of the 'franking machine label' sales scam from years ago. A company I joined had conned every receptionist for years into buying loads of franking machine labels on the guise of shall we send you your usual order? The cupboards were full of thousands the ruddy things. What was worse, they were fractionally too small, and one jammed the machine resulting in an expensive callout to the franking machine company, so we only ever used genuine ones after that. Didn't stop the label company keep calling, even though I told them not to.

MayaM

pockitz said:

Just had a call to my business phone from a woman called Sam, claiming that she spoke to me in October about a books for schools campaign that has now closed and asked which school I would like to choose for the books to go to. I assume that she would then ask for money or something, but I hung up and clocked the number. Apparently this is an old scam, so keep 'em peeled kids.

Hi I just got the same call. I am worried, will they try to send an invoice to the company? If they do, can they actually harm the company...I am not sure what protection we have? Did they try to send you an invoice?

LostMarbles

I just had this call right now. Thought it was very odd, they say they called a few months ago and that I had agreed to sponsor some kids books for charity, tried reading out our company address to convince me. I said I did not do any of this, and if so send me the formal written agreement. She (the kindly spoken lady with British accent) then hung up! Called from number 07782336310. Be warned and don't be pressured. First time, I've head of this scam.

OwlishAgain

Just had this call, same British woman calling from 07846714190 stating I'd agreed to sponsor a 'safety' book in March. Allegedly she's emailing me the call transcript where I 'agreed' to this. I'll wait!

Though it strikes me it'd probably be very easy to fake the call recording using AI these days, breathing new life into what seems a very old scam.

Jude57

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82090237#Comment_82090237

I'm sure you didn't give her your actual email address? 😮