Current scams

Derbyshire Police / Neighbourhood Alert locally have also warned about this scam asking people to forward the warning on to their friends.

We get so many cold calls on our landline, we generally don't always answer the phone unless the number comes up as recognised.

I also get folk who use Messenger to let me know about scams.  These are often fake scams which I always check out.

If I'm in doubt as to the validity of a scam, I always check it out.  A useful website is hoax-slayer, which I've generally found reliable. See:

https://www.hoax-slayer.com/ .....for the old website, or

https://www.hoax-slayer.net/  .....for the new website.

Both websites do have quite a few 'adverts' but I personally find it's worth putting up with these for the information.

David

This one must be getting very serious now, 'cos it has just been re-transmitted but over the  title of the Action Fraud, National Administrator !

Had a call from a guy who said that my loft insulation was inadequate and needed to be replaced, how he knew that without coming and inspecting it I do not know.

SURPRISE, SURPRISE HE COULD DO THE JOB FOR ME, but only if I took up the offer there and then!

 

Multiple choice question, guess what my answer was?  

a) take a running jump off tower bridge

b) Yes - but only if it is free

c) - - it up - ----- - - -  (the sun doesn't shine there.)

d) How do you insulate the loft in a flat roofed bungalow?

 

 

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I am delighted to see that the piece of Scum who conned an old lady out of £160 to inject her with a fake vaccine in London has been arrested.

I am sure that some of my fellow CT members would like to reciprocate the gesture but maybe get the Russians to do the injecting.

I know the perfect tool for dealing with him. I wouldn’t charge a penny either......

We've had a lot of these calls, we don't usually answer but the other week OH responded "I'll put you through to the duty officer" the phone went dead...

Maybe he has a drone and looks for roof tops with no snow on them.  

Not a scam but a cautionary tale.

Wanting a new 13 pin caravan plug I ordered it on Amazon using my Credit Card, only for it to be declined  I last used it successfully on EBay 4 days ago so tried to verify it again but the bank kept declining it.

Rang the Halifax Credit Card number and the nice lady told me 2 days ago someone tried to take a payment of 17 pence that was non related to any previous purchases, and if it went through it would be enough to open the card account to that person allowing more and bigger sums to be charged.

Halifax sensed a card fraud and closed the card account, sent me a text which unfortunately due to a Vodaphone blip I didn't receive. So full marks to the bank in catching this and acting upon it, just have to wait for a new card now.