Speeding fine scam
my wife earlier on today had a call on her mobile saying she had not paid her speeding fine and it must be paid today or the fine doubles tomorrow, this is very strange as she does not drive or hold a licence, he said he had been asked by the court to make the call, again she repeated she does not drive,the reply was ok see you in the courthouse (thought it was court in the UK) she hung up, 5 mins later same number rang again this time I answered and a Nigerian type accent (not racist just my take on the accent) and said “ why you keep ringing me man” a few not very polite words were used ( I filled the swear box) so my point is to make you aware of these scammers. the number they dialled from was London 02038680184, this has also be reported to action fraud, so please be on your guard and don’t fall for the scams these lowlife try to empty your bank accounts.
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I had a call from that number some days ago. I never answer unknown calls - figuring that if it's important they'll leave a message - and then I always check the number on 'who called me' even if the caller had left a message! There have been 23,615 searches for that number.......................! That alone would tell me it's a scam without ever needing to answer the call or to listen to the message.
There are comments about requesting payment for everything from an unpaid for pizza, to the parking fines which your wife received, quite a few in the last few days and those are only from the people who searched and who have commented.
My tip would be never to answer such calls, and check them out on Who called me...........
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Try this page instead
Somehow Val you got the wrong address by one letter. Interesting site that I had never heard of. Cheers.
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Totally agree with you, but it was just spur of the moment on autopilot as the call was answered.
the post was mainly to reinforce both your comments as it’s so easy to slip up and to think of what could happen👍👍
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This afternoon I received a call from overseas (say no more) The male voice told me he was phoning about my recent road accident and needed to confirm insurance details. Thankfully I haven't had an accident for many many years, so I told him I had recently had 8 accidents and asked him which one he was talking about. He was stumped, and rang off. It made me smile.
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The other scam we've had recently was a very realistic email, headed from London Borough, telling me I'd been photographed contravening parking or other regs on such & such a date, and inviting me to click on the photo to see. While I knew I'd not been there, it's still tempting to click to see what they're pretending is evidence - and of course there would be the connection made for them to jump in with their Trojan or whatever infection they wanted to plant.
Spelling & grammar were both pretty good, appearance very convincing.1 -
in the last year we have had lots of scammers, they say they from B.T. and they motioning traffic in my area, they wanted remote access to our computer, but they hadn't done the homework, we live just outside Kingstone upon Hull, B.T. don't have the lines hear, their are owned by Kingstone Communications
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Scammers are very crafty - they will put in a URL with perhaps only one different character, so you can think you are on a bona fide website when, in fact, you are connected to the scammer. Opening such an email is usually safe, PROVIDING you do not touch any links that may appear.
I got an email asking for me to meet an invoice for over £4,000. I entered the company address on Google and found their genuine URL - the difference was very subtle - but in computer terms one character variation is a totally different address.
I contacted the company boss by phone and told him about the demand for money, and he was worried in case one of his customers had been scammed. I said that I would not forward the email to him, as it would be unwise for it to get onto his system, and that I would forward it direct to the police site for scams. Job done!
Pause and think before acting on any email, and it becomes a bad day for scammers, instead of vice versa.
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Had another scam caller like this who rang me and they portrayed to be from Lunar telling me I have won a new caravan. I asked them what model and they just hung up lol!
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Must be a scam then . . . .
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FWIWorth I recived an email from BT which contained
Hello,
This is a quick reminder that your BT Call Protect service is up and running and automatically sending known scam and nuisance calls to your junk voicemail.
How to make the most of your
free BT Call Protect service
After you get a nuisance call, simply dial 1572 or go to your online blacklist through My BT and we'll redirect future calls to your junk voicemail. Every time you do this, you'll help us identify and blacklist more and more nuisance callers for all of our customers.of course if you are with another provider, it's not much help!
Rgds
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