Current scams

We've heard of this one before as a way of 'testing' to see if it gets noticed prior to attempting to gain much larger sums.  Well done Halifax.

 

That's weird - I was responding to 'a cautionary tale' but it's disappeared.

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They do it in to find out if you or your bank notice, if you don't check your account on a regular basis they can go for bigger sums. If you purchase a lot of small value items it can be hard to spot. Also a few thousand 50p sums taken from many accounts add up to quite a big amount!

We’ve had a couple of texts lately, supposedly from the Halifax, although they haven’t come through on the normal text string. According to the text a new payee has been set up on our account and there is a link to log onto if you haven’t set it up. Presumably if you click on the link they then try and mine your login details. Checks of the account, not of course using their links, confirmed they were scams.

 

I've just received this one. Boris sure kept it quiet!

Note 'off' instead of 'of'.  Blocked and Deleted User.

OH has just had a competition scam sent through. £20,000 in cash, or tickets to see an Elvis Tribute.

It said press 1 for the money, 2 for the show...........

Talking to an elderly neighbour the other day he mentioned a variation on a scam that had him worried. He's quite alert so when someone rang him he cottoned on pretty quick and put the phone down. 20 minutes later he received another call this time from his bank asking if he had a recent call that sounded strange. He said yes he had and they said that his account was one of a batch that they were worried might be being targeted by scammers. They told him they were trying to contact all of those customers to warn them but obviously they were behind the scammers. He said they wanted to make sure there had been no activity on his account and he almost, almost gave them his details, so convincing were they but fortunately common sense kicked in.

He felt so worried he actually went to the bank the following day to double check all was ok and stood outside for 90 minutes until they deemed to open for customers. 

Whatever happened to Tar and Feathering?

Another scam from today. I pay when the BBC remind me & online not DD. It’s easy to tell this one as the BBC have me down as my chosen name not as my email. Keep vigilant👍🏻

Playing along with scam callers can brighten up a dull day, my best yet was a call informing me that I qualified for a government grant to replace my dangerous roof (news to me), so I expressed alarm that my roof was dangerous and that I needed to go outside and inspect it and was able to report that the roof was still there. I managed to keep the dialogue going for about 10 minutes when I asked the caller if they also covered windows and Yes was the answer I replied that was good as i thought that I had a bug on my computer. That was when the phone was put down on me.