General Chat

We where talking about scammers this morning... how do the he*l for peeps fall for it.
Son .. has put his car up for sale on A*to Trader; Private sale, He had a phone call call from a company who'd for £90 would guarantee a sale and return his £90 on the sale.
What a load of sh*te !
They phoned him cos the saw his advert on the net.. we checked it out and
it is a dodgy company :-|
I won't put my home or mobile phone number on the net ,and don't put it on GR either.
Just hope the car sells and we don't have any iffy phone calls.
If we do I'll go ex directory, we aren't listed currently , and son can suffer any iffy calls. I didn't know he'd put our home number on the ad !!!!!!

two people had their bank accounts scammed this week round her this week
thats shocking robbing poor people :-(

one got thei money back from the bank straight away the other has to wait a week

bless our banking system :-D

a family friends had her bank card scammed today on some poker site

since ive subscribed to a charity ive had all the others phoning, some sound like a scam wanting a min of 8 p0und a month, he really went on till i got the phone of specky and did my wailing banshee cry down the phone :-D

I'm feeling neglected :( I haven't a scam call for a few days :-( ;-)

yes....sadly:((

got another weird email this morning (I wish people would bcc their emails!!!)

Looks like I've won one million pounds in the UK Lottery

I just have to send my details to a person with a Yahoo email address..... unless one of you nice people in the UK want to collect it for me. I'll give you a share lol

Do people really fall for this rubbish?

:-D

l'm only saying.... :-P :-P :-P

never!!!!

Thats the one l originally put on here....the link...BUT apparently some dipsticks did fall for it!!!!!

jude ;-)

scam mentioned by money guru Declan Curry on BBC news this morning - someone rings up alleging to be from your bank telling you your card has been misused and has been cancelled and that a courier will be sent to collect it!!! Now who would be daft enough to hand it over?

i wonder who thinks of these scams
is it little joe public sat in there garden

I know ;-) ;-)

I could have said worse ;-)

I'm glad you said gerbil not guinea pig :-D

Ring, ring
"hello"

"can I speak with Mrs ???????"

"what's it about"

"her electricity supplier and the money we can save her" or "the mis-sold PPI she has probably paid for"

"really, I want your name and your company's name and registered address"

"why?"

"you have just contravened the data protection act by disclosing the purpose of this phone call to her neighbour who is gerbil sitting"

Phone goes dead :-D

they sure are :-D :-D

yep we had one this morning, persistent little devils aren't they?

Just had another scam call, think she said it was about a prob with Microsoft , couldn't understand what she said really but got the gist of it.
I let her do her blurb
She wasn't persistent, and politely said Thank you maam, when I told her, that we have no probs with any of the PCs, son has a PHD in IT , hubby has his own IT business ( all a load of crap, but that's what they are giving you )