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Beware of scams
« on: April 21, 2020, 03:29:05 PM »
There seems to be a greater number of scams doing the rounds at the moment, presumably scumbags trying to profiteer during these difficult times.

I've has three emails this week:

1. TV Licensing: telling me that my account has been suspended due to non payment of £12. I can't imagine that such a body would suspend an account for such a small amount, plus my licence is paid yearly in July!!

2. EE: telling me that my latest mobile phone bill payment has failed, and to follow the link to make payment. Strange as my direct debit went out yesterday!

3: Paypal: telling me my account had been suspended.

4. A private individual: telling me that he knew all my browsing history, my password (which was a very old and now unused one) plus webcam of me viewing pornsites. If I didn't make a payment of a large number of bitcoin he would publish these details to everyone in my address book.

The first three did look genuine in appearance but they are not addressed to me personally, just a generic greeting. Also reading them they all have poor grammar akin to someone whose first language isn't English. Another giveaway is to look closely at the senders address as it will have certain differences to the genuine company. The final thing to look at is to click on recipient as it will sometimes be sent to multiple people and that's a definite giveaway.

Just be wary, especially at this time, before you assume them to be genuine and click on a link.

PS, regarding note 4, if anyone wants a link to any good porn sites  :-?  ::)  >;
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Re: Beware of scams
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2020, 07:47:10 PM »
Scammers are a wily bunch, thankfully I don't suffer a great deal with them. If I get an E mail claiming to be from a company I deal with, I bypass the E mail and contact the firm directly to query it.

According to the wife she has seen on today's B.B.C. "ceefax" that Admiral car insurance are to give every customer a £25 refund as they are not using their cars as often because of the virus, and they hope other companies will follow suit.

Now if that isn't a green light for possible scamming I don't know what is.

Surely it would have been a lot simpler {and safer} to have discounted the next re newel.
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Re: Beware of scams
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2020, 01:32:32 AM »
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Re: Beware of scams
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2021, 08:54:13 PM »
Scammers are a wily bunch, thankfully I don't suffer a great deal with them. If I get an E mail claiming to be from a company I deal with, I bypass the E mail and contact the firm directly to query it.


Watching yesterdays Rip off Britain on the Beeb once again warning users of possible E mail scams especially when "transferring" money.
Yesterday dealt with a young couple who had saved up for years to put a deposit on a house, the deposit they were putting down was a staggering £100,000 {good god what were they buying?}
All the deposit transaction she decided to do on line, obviously because of the busy life she leads. The bottom line was scammers somehow got into her E mails and when the time came for her to transfer the money to her bank, they posed as the bank with a scam bank account and she put the money in that account, in short she's lost the whole hundred grand, basically the bank are not going to reimburse them as they didn't heed the warning signs.
I re iterate, I cannot find it in me to feel sorry for them, for any amount, especially of that magnitude FIND TIME!
Not to put not too finer point on it.... had that been ME with say just £50 let alone £100,000 I would have visited my nearest branch and had a face to face over the counter one to one with a member of staff to seal the deal, not only that, I would have held their youngest child hostage till the deal had gone through.

Most peoples lives are too dependant on a computers and this is what the problem is, scammers are always one step ahead.
I'm not saying I will NEVER be scammed, but even if they DO get any money out of me.......  It won't be much, and they would have had to work for it.



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Re: Beware of scams
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2021, 12:07:51 PM »
How close are some of these people to us - they lurk on social media.
I picked up a scam of someone in Wingerworth being duped by people claiming the person's 'water Pressure was down'

 There had actually been issues posted on Facebook etc stating this and Severn Trent were looking into it. This was actually genuine but these people had obviously picked up on it and chanced their luck!
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Re: Beware of scams
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2021, 03:16:23 PM »
Exactly what I'm talking about O.C.....
Scammers have an arsenal of scams they can use to get their hands on other peoples money, their scams are a bottomless pit, your life savings aren't!
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