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Latest Phone Scam
#1072920
3rd Dec 2019 2:14pm
3rd Dec 2019 2:14pm
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Posts: 357 Wallasey
Habdab
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I was called today by a recorded robotic sounding female voice with an English accent, advising me that someone had withdrawn £600 from my Barclaycard account. If I suspected it was fraudulently withdrawn, to press "1" on the phone keypad. I hung up immediately and called Barclaycard, who assured me nothing had been withdrawn from my account and it was the latest scam.
If you're the slightest bit suspicious, HANG UP! don't use the dial back function on the phone and call Barclaycard with a known number.
Fetere sum, ego sum Ergo
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Re: Latest Phone Scam
[Re: Habdab]
#1072921
3rd Dec 2019 3:56pm
3rd Dec 2019 3:56pm
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Posts: 2,288 wallasey
casper
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I was called today by a recorded robotic sounding female voice with an English accent, advising me that someone had withdrawn £600 from my Barclaycard account. If I suspected it was fraudulently withdrawn, to press "1" on the phone keypad. I hung up immediately and called Barclaycard, who assured me nothing had been withdrawn from my account and it was the latest scam.
If you're the slightest bit suspicious, HANG UP! don't use the dial back function on the phone and call Barclaycard with a known number. Had a few like that they are doing the rounds, just over an hour ago message left on the answering machine saying £600 pound has been withdrawn from our account and deposited in a foreign account, funny enough we had the same message about a month ago I went to draw some money out about a week after the call and out of curiosity asked the girl if there had been any suspicious activity in the account she looked up and said £600 I must have gone white because she said don't worry nearly everyone that has come in has asked the same thing.
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Re: Latest Phone Scam
[Re: Habdab]
#1072929
4th Dec 2019 2:20pm
4th Dec 2019 2:20pm
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Posts: 17,672 Wirral
granny
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Just as a matter of interest , I think I'm right in saying that the Banks would not call like that 'off hand' over the telephone. So if anyone phones claiming to be your bank , it won't be.
The same applied to BT when I got a call saying unless I paid my bill immediately, they would cut off the phone line. BT said they would never handle an issue of such nature that way over the phone.
I nearly got caught a couple of weeks ago. Someone had forwarded me an add for £100 shopping voucher for Tesco. Fill in this, fill in that , name ,address , email. and then press enter. Even I did that like a stupid cow. Up popped a phone number to phone and that's when I had second thoughts.
2 days later, and whether it was related or not I don't know , but I don't think so , after clicking on a link my laptop got a security warning flashing which I could not get rid of. Telling me not to close my laptop down and to phone a number as I was in jeopardy of a virus infiltrating my computer etc. Anyway, on the advice of my son, I did close it down and on re booting it was gone and nothing has transpired since .
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle
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Re: Latest Phone Scam
[Re: Habdab]
#1073058
10th Dec 2019 2:05pm
10th Dec 2019 2:05pm
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diggingdeeper

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I had a fraud-check txt arrive this morning, it was was genuine, someone tried to take roughly £1,100, £2,200 and £24,000 pounds out on my credit card, barclayard detected and blocked two of the withdrawals but missed the middle one. All of them went out to travel company names.
Most annoying thing is that I've had this card number for many years, its imprinted on my forehead and now its going to change.
The further you are down the pay scale, the more 'essential' you are when the s--- hits the fan... Sue Farbysmith 2020
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Fishing
by diggingdeeper. 29th Jan 2021 5:16pm
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