2026 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD - our Year of Redistribution

Florenceem

Blind man was due at 3 but came at 2 as previous customer was not at home.

I have a blind!

I will pop in and pay the rest of the money as it has been installed.

Had to move my jug collection further towards the window for when I pull the blind down this evening.

Floss

@Florenceem that's a lovely window - the blind compliments the wall colour beautifully.

I've just checked and JackieO was last online on 24th Feb.

suprisinglynice

What a beautiful blind 😊

Yorkie1

Lovely blind 😊

Sorry to hear of your woes, @regnbue - glad to hear that your eyes are on the mend now, though.

Have just decluttered a whole bag (74g) of mini eggs, yum yum😂

Florenceem

So I now have 2 rooms finished.

I can't find things in my kitchen - where is the larger pyrex bowl? I made pastry by hand as I couldn't find the rubbing in blade for the Magimix.

Yorkie1

Very lovely 💗

daisy_1571

Kitchen is lovely florenceem

Thats a long time for jackieo to be away, hope all well with her

Dxx

These double letters and cursor bouncing around are incredibly annoying since the 'upgrade'

Willowtree222

Decluttered a debit card and here is why. Hope this makes people aware of how sophisticated these scammers are

I just want to warn everyone of a scam that happened to me this week. I am very cautious and usually really switched on so the fact it almost got me, is unusual and shows the new sophistication.

I got a call from my apparent bank to say that someone had tried to use my card at argos for £329 and it had been declined. They gave me the last 4 digits of my card number and even had my banks spiel down perfectly (having had to replace my card a few weeks ago). Everything they said was everything I was asked when I had legitimately phoned the bank.

They told me I would get a text from my bank to tell me about this and to prevent it in future, they could set up a text message service to alert me to high transaction purchases. I agreed this would be a good idea and they said I would get a separate text that I just needed to reply Y back to to confirm that I wanted to set it up for my transactions. I hadn't seen the text at that point and assumed it was a confirm text.

He kept asking me did I have the texts and when I did I told him I did and this is the scary part. Those texts were legitimate texts from my bank sent from them at the time he said they would be. My bank have confirmed they are legitimate. He knew when he tried to submit the transaction how long my bank would take to message me legitimately and as it was part of my bank text thread, I had no reason to doubt them.

Thankfully, when I read the messages they told me they would never phone me to say what answer to give and the second text that he wanted me to reply Y to was to authorise the transaction he was trying to make. If I would have replied Y back to my bank, I would have lost that money. At this point I told him I wouldn't reply Y because that was authorising that transaction and he continued to try and get me to do it saying it was just setting up this new system. I refused and told him I was hanging up and ringing my bank through my app. He got aggressive with me at that point. I told him if he did work for the bank, he would be happy for me to do this and hung up. He tried several times to phone me again.

He asked me for no personal details, gave me personal details and used the banks anti fraud legitimate system to support his call.

I would advise anyone if they get any calls like this to advise the caller you are going to hang up and phone the bank via the number on their card or through their app.

Brie

@Willowtree222

Scary situation. Unfortunately all it takes is one disgruntled bank employee from all the thousands that work for the banks in this country to provide someone else with the script they might use so the fraudsters can sound so legit. A person doesn't even need to work front line or in the fraud team to have access to this sort of thing. Don't ask me how I know. (I was, at times, only mildly gruntled by my employer so it weren't me!!)

Willowtree222

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81913756#Comment_81913756

I know. That and knowledge of how my bank would react including when I got the text messages…

Thankfully I read them before I just did what he said.