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Be Aware BROADBAND SCAM

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LaGooner

LaGooner Report 20 Jul 2018 15:51

Be aware if you get a phone call claiming to be from BT telling you they are going to suspend your Broadband service it is a Scam. They are also telling you that even if you are with Sky , Virgin etc they all use BT lines, they do not. They ask you to turn on your computer so that they can correct the faults which are to do with your Broadband speed etc. I have spoken directly to BT and reported this to them.

Phyll

Phyll Report 20 Jul 2018 16:35

Had an email yesterday regarding the same thing - just deleted it.

Researching:
Newman, Pavey, Sinden from Sussex. Latham from Bucks & Herts

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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 20 Jul 2018 16:46

Something a person could easily fall for, especially if they’re already having Broadband problems.

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LaGooner

LaGooner Report 20 Jul 2018 16:58

Which of course I have had as you know DET. :-) They sounded very convincing

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 20 Jul 2018 16:59

I had a call claiming to be from Talk Talk (who I used to be with).
I informed him I (a) didn't have and internet connection, and (b)wasn't with Talk Talk, told him to take my name off his list.

Five minutes later - another call, sounding suspiciously like the previous caller, this time, apparently from BT.
I asked him what he didn't understand about not having an internet connection - it's not compulsory - that I wasn't with BT either, and to **** *** :-D

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

LaGooner

LaGooner Report 20 Jul 2018 17:02

I told them I was just going out so call me back tomorrow morning. In the meantime I called BT to report it I will be out tomorrow :-D :-D :-D :-D

Denburybob

Denburybob Report 20 Jul 2018 19:59

I get them regularly. Some recorded, some by a gentleman with a foreign accent. I have probably had six in the last week.

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 20 Jul 2018 20:22

Iv'e had two calls on consecutive days both at around 12:15 midday when I am in the throes of making the midday meal..got sarcastic with the first one and he hung up, and tried to lead the second up the garden path a bit, and he went away....LOL
got onto talk talk who gave me the only numbers they use to contact customers...nothing like the glasgow numbers i had just been called from...yeah they are all foreign accents to me...

Researching:
me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960

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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 23 Jul 2018 10:03

“This is a BT Security Department alert. Your computer has been hacked and your personal details....” recorded phone call. They never got further than that.

Oh well, at least the ringing phone got OH out of bed :-D

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LaGooner

LaGooner Report 23 Jul 2018 10:15

Surprise, surprise they did not call me back :-0 :-D :-D :-D

David

David Report 23 Jul 2018 11:38


I got a call from a man recently wanting to know about my internet speakers (?)

I told him I'm more than once reported to BT on 150 problems i was experiencing

with my BT Hub. His reply didn't make sense (to me) he said 150 knew nothing about

the Hub and that I should phone 0800 1112345687 ??

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