Current scams
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Here's another one - Paying for goods in a shop (Lidl) cashier suggests we can save money by signing up to a discount card. Lovely - lets have some!
What she did not tell us was the £15 a month subscription
It is rather sharp practice of the promoter (Complete savings. co .uk) to bury that fact well down in their small print - presumably to take advantage of the well known fact that few people read the small print.
So much for loyalty cards eh?
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Glad that I didn't bother, as our Lidl store closed, so we only occasionally use one when away in terms caravan.
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We leave our answerphone on permanently. If we recognise an incoming number we'll answer the phone. If it's not recognised we let the answerphone kick in which invites the caller to leave a message and we'll get back to them They never leave a message, which I'm sure they would if it was an important and / or genuine call.
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Some are remarkably persistent. I reckon my McAfee account (which I’ve never had) has been about to expire now on most days for the past 2 years or so. My email provider kindly directs it straight to junk, but I do take the occasional look as some genuine stuff has ended up there.
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There is now a scam involving the " Royal Mail" Send us your payment details for a parcel destined for you ,that's under paid for !!
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I believe that the 'complete savings .co' that I mentioned has been the subject of a very vociferous forum (now closed.) on the Martin Lewis website
It seems that they are now investigating it.
PS I got my money back and the account was closed without any difficulty. So perhaps it is a case of mis-selling?
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My landline logged a call from a local number on Monday. As I sometimes do, I rang the number back on Tuesday, but from my mobile phone, but the voice message suggested they were busy.
They obviously recorded the fact that I had tried to ring them back, for they rang me on my mobile this morning - again presenting a local to me phone number, but with a very foreign and difficult to understand accent.
He immediately launched into suggesting my Ebay account had been hacked, had I bought an HP laptop for £50 - I had, bought a new HP recently, but for a lot more than £50.
Did I want to stop the transaction - playing along I said yes please. He then asked me to log into my ebay account - at which point I told him where to go.
Puzzle is - how did they know when ringing my mobile number, what my local code might have been? What number to spoof? I could have rung them from anywhere in the UK on my mobile, when I rang them on Tuesday.
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Harry1000, your mobile number doesn't have a local code, your home phone number will have been used on a random calling system. Avoid responding to unknown callers, particularly with a mobile. If you do get problems look up Ofcom and their advice in the nuisance calls section.
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You played into their hands, Harry. Standby for more scam calls.
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I rarely get cold/scam calls on my mobile, but my landline used to be inundated with them (ex-Taltalk). Which was why I ended up needing a caller filter, which very successfully has blocked all, but the genuine callers ever since.
Most often, when I do phone a missed caller back to see what the call was about, the number they have spoofed is an invalid number - so no harm done.
This one, a local code, actually rang and went unanswered, until a tape message cut in with a US accent.
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Not sure if this was a scam when first reading it or just plain disturbing.
Oh and MiL have Kindle and have had them for a good few years now. There has been no recent problems with them but both have received notifications from Google that they won't be able to access their Gmail accounts without giving Amazon complete access to their email accounts and the wording means Complete. Without your consent you are blocked out of your gmail account. The new T&Cs seem to indicate that you are agreeing to Amazon doing whatever they want with your emails, changing them, deleting them, reading them etc.
I've looked on Google itself and this message has appeared in the past with users of Kindle worried about it being either a scam or too much information being available to Amazon.
Looking at those postings it would appear that you can by-pass these T&Cs by downloading the gmail app onto Kindle but this apparently isn't as proficient as keeping the original gmail system. OH now trying to get various other email apps downloaded for her other email addresses but having problems putting more than one gmail account on. Any advice gratefully received.
We were surprised to suddenly get this and am wondering if other Kindle users have had the same problems.
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