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Mrs. Bonce

25/2/2020 at 10:44am
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Just had a recorded phone call, English female voice, to inform me that £600 had just been taken from my bank account from abroad. "press 1 to agree to or cancel". I daresay that if I had pressed 1 I would now be £600 short.

So another one to watch out for.

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25/2/2020 at 10:51am
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That has been going around for a long time.
The people doing it should be managing the economy ,so far this year someone has allegedly take at least 10 times more than I had in my account.
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25/2/2020 at 11:06am
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YEP. My brother has been getting these for yonks. Also about his Amazon Prime card.

Both of us work on the motto, if someone mentions money, the chances are its a scam.

Our German friends actually got caught on the "problems with windows on your computer" call and even got as far as giving their bank card info to the caller to pay for the service provided. Fortunately a neighbour dropped in just as they were finishing and told them to phone the bank and cancel everything.

I had a phone call from my bank a while ago wishing to discuss my account. I said fine, I will phone you back on the number on my statement.

One of the tricks I use if it is a live call not the usual recorded rubbish is to encourage the caller to keep talking while I start my computer. Actually I am just passing time. After a minute I stop them and say Please be aware my computer has software that tracks the source of phone calls. It is amazing how quickly they end the call.

Mrs. Bonce

25/2/2020 at 11:26am
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My SIL's hairdresser was caught out and lost £5,000. She should have been punished for crimes against hair! (blue rinse and perm anyone, and she is only in her late 60s).

Graham

25/2/2020 at 4:21pm
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My aunt was almost caught with a facebook lotto scam. She even tried to pay these nutters the money but her bank refused to transfer the money. It was only after the wife and I looked at the email they sent her that is was damn obvious it was a scam. She actually took some convincing that you do not have to pay £1500 up front for them to transfer your 'winnings' of £20k into you account.
Thank goodness we popped in to see her that night.

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25/2/2020 at 8:47pm
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We intercepted our elderly mothers bank card when a new one was sent through. It left her quite happy with her old one which was expired. She had quite bad dementia so was at great risk.

She would sit for hours chatting away with them and eventually get her card out and give them the details. What a shame it was expired.

She really enjoyed the chats and never really knew what we had done.

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25/2/2020 at 9:27pm
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As many have already said.........If you don’t recognise the number, don’t pick the phone up!

If it is important, they will leave a message.

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26/2/2020 at 1:07pm
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