Telephone Scams

[Easy-X]

Got a new one today (new to me anyway)

[Sister Sledge]

Sounds like one aimed at folk from the USA?

Edit no - forget that. I'm too tired to read it all.
I dunno but they only do it because people actually fall for it.
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CCM 404 DS

[Courier265]

Yeah, press one and get charged shitloads.
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CBF500 - 2 x Inazuma 250

[Easy-X]

I was thinking it would be simple but it seems that they're targeting:

Immigrants with a land line and have recently applied for a national insurance card and are thick as shit! Immigrant + NI sorta implies EU citizen over the usual "Calais Taxi" entrants...

That's quite a teeny-weeny intersection on the Venn diagram of scam victims!
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[Hetzer]

My mate got one from 'BT' a couple of days ago, saying his phone line was being shut down in 24 hours because "illegal hacking detected, please press 1 to connect to an advisor". He pressed 1 (twat), the line went dead.
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[Ribenapigeon]

I kept having BT phoning me up. I just put the phone down thinking it was just pestering sale calls. It turned out they were genuinely offering me a better offer. . Just goes to show.

[bugeye_bob]

How will freezing your national insurance number change owt?

[Riejufixing]

[Polarbear]

[Ste]

People still use landlines?

[Polarbear]

[Easy-X]

People phoning my mobile now...

"Hi, are you the owner of [some domain name] we'd like to offer finance for your business."

To which I replied: no thanks, I don't need finance from random telemarketers. If I were you I'd look for a better job as scrapping the domain name registries for contact info is pretty lame!
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[Tracey Suntan-King]

[bhinso]

The thing is, it's no lose for the scammers because they never seem to get caught.
It's like this huge Universal Credit scam which has been going on. Everyones whining about which poor fcuker is going to pay for it, whilst the scammers are laughing all the way to Halifax.