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- ferrit worrier
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paypal scammers
just had a text message off +447957474711 advising me to accept new terms and conditions or be suspended.
I've left out the prefix but the rest of the web site is ://user-terms5492.com yeh like I'm not that daft. the phone number is none existent
take care out there you guys
Malc
I've left out the prefix but the rest of the web site is ://user-terms5492.com yeh like I'm not that daft. the phone number is none existent
take care out there you guys
Malc
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so they had your mobile number? not good.
- simonineaston
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Yikes! Thnx for heads-up, Malc
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mercalia wrote:so they had your mobile number? not good.
Or are just carpet bombing any and all possible numbers and hope they hit lucky.
How often, for example, have you had an email telling you to “click here” to do something on a bank account for a bank you have no business with?
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I've had a couple of scam calls on the landline recently. Something like your internet is being cut off. Press 1 to update.
Presumably 1 would connect the auto call to a scanner who would try and extract personal or bank details.
Presumably 1 would connect the auto call to a scanner who would try and extract personal or bank details.
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or connect you to a premium line charging mega rates.
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thirdcrank wrote:or connect you to a premium line charging mega rates.
That can't happen.
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DaveReading wrote: ... That can't happen.
It's reassuring to hear that because, over years of reading the personal financial advice columns, I got the impression it had happened.
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thirdcrank wrote:DaveReading wrote: ... That can't happen.
It's reassuring to hear that because, over years of reading the personal financial advice columns, I got the impression it had happened.
My impression from reading the same is that has happened to many people. Perhaps they thought it couldn't happen.
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It's best to assume that, if it's going to disadvantage you, it probably can happen... and without you knowing, or giving your permission and, when it does happen, it will either be your fault or if it isn't, you will have no recourse to compensation! Welcome to Modern Life!they thought it couldn't happen
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In the mists of time it used to be possible, but not any more, and not in the UKDaveReading wrote:thirdcrank wrote:or connect you to a premium line charging mega rates.
That can't happen.
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pete75 wrote:thirdcrank wrote:DaveReading wrote: ... That can't happen.
It's reassuring to hear that because, over years of reading the personal financial advice columns, I got the impression it had happened.
My impression from reading the same is that has happened to many people. Perhaps they thought it couldn't happen.
The OP was referring to incoming calls.
Unless you are talking about unusual circumstances, like receiving calls on your mobile while abroad, the only calls you ever pay for are outgoing calls. There is no way that you pay for an incoming call on a UK landline, nor any way that an incoming call can magically turn into a chargeable outgoing call.
Here it is, explained more eloquently than I can:
"In these scams pressing 1 does not connect you to a premium rate number. That is just nonsense perpetuated by people who don't understand how the telephone network works. They call you so it is an incoming call and anything you press is within the confines of that incoming call and does not and cannot spawn a new call chargeable to your line. Technically it is exactly the same as any standard call centre with a voice menu (such as a bank etc) except they cold call you. When you press 1 you are just instructing their voice menu system to connect you to their agent (ie the scammer).
When you answer you are played an automated announcement telling you of some disaster which is about to befall your windows PC/bank account/amazon account/broadband/HMRC status/blah blah. The announcement is a pre-screening of potential targets. The announcement invites you to press 1 and if you do that alerts one of the team of scammers and they come onto the line. The scammer then tries to persuade you to either divulge sufficient information so they can steal money from you or to carry out actions on your PC so they can gain access to it and gain the information that way. This is where the scam is and if you do not divulge any information to them then you are perfectly safe talking to them."
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I'm happy to admit that I'm one of those people who don't understand how the telephone network works. I get the impression that landlines and mobiles work quite differently. Is it possible the published rip-off accounts I've read have applied to mobiles - including perhaps texts - or has it just been scare stories to frighten us numpties?
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I dont normally get people phone me up on my land line these days, but recently been getting some calls where no one says any thing before a hang up. I never speak until some one says some thing first