BT scammer
BE AWARE !! ,I was contacted on Friday morning last by an operative claiming to be an BT/Openreach engineer .After TWO HOURS of trying to get into my bank A/C by setting me up with INTERNET /PhONE BANKING via so called cleaning my problamatic Wi-Fi via my own laptop ,HE LOCKED ME OUT !! !! Information that he had obtained from somewhere ,even had my old "Paypal" A/C details !! The pages that he put up from my bank even had their 'look a like ' web page ,complete with MY branch code & & & MY A/C 
BE AWARE !! BE AWARE !! Fortunately a text from my bank highlighted the problem while he was on line ,and we managed to stop his game !! !! Afterwards i contacted B.T and the bank fraud team, ,also went to my bank in person, just to confirm my A/C was safe HEADS UP folks ,,,,BE AWARE BE AWARE !! 
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As soon as I hear anybody claiming to be from BT, or telling me that I have a problem with my internet, whether from BT or not, it's goodbye. But it can't be emphasised enough, lots of people fall victim to these despicable people. If they call me at a bad time, I'll have a real go at them, and tell them just what I think of them, but of course it's water off a duck's back with these sorts of people.
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Best thing is to get a phone with call guardian, that rejects any calls not in our recognised calls list and sends them straight to answer phone. If it’s important and they really need to get in touch they leave a message. They almost never do. For the mobile if it doesn’t come up with a name it doesn’t get answered and again goes to voicemail. Had a few CC sites ring, that of course just came up as numbers. They left messages either with information or asking us to get back to them. If you can avoid talking to these scammers there is much less chance of getting drawn in.
Texts are more difficult to avoid. So far this week BT have not been able to take my broad band payment and are going to cut me off and I have a parcel which the post office will deliver if I pay a fee.😡1 -
A call guardian won't prevent your bank contact number being misappropriated by fraudsters. The banks warn about this. Never believe anything about your bank account without doing a totally separate check on another device to a suitable number. It's important that you don't rely on the number calling as fact, check it out separately in the case of banks etc.
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Of course it won’t brue. It. Just means you never get to talk to said fraudsters. At worse I suppose they could leave a message, but so far in several years of having it none have. Just out of interest I occasionally Google the numbers that have rung and then cut off when diverted to answer phone. Quite often they come up as dangerous, scam etc. Or perhaps just annoying, trying to sell insurance. The main thing is you never get to talk to them, so there is no way they can talk you into parting with any sensitive information.
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Thanks Guy's .Phew !! Lesson learned !! 
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