Great bit of investigative journalism - scam calls.

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Platypus replied

19 March 2019, 12:24
Daily Mail? Nah, can safely be ignored. They supported the Nazis you know.
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NotAllThere replied

19 March 2019, 07:28
Originally posted by Bacchus View Post

A neighbour of mine was called by one of these bastards.

At first she was confused and frightened; her husband always dealt with such matters and he died last year (pancreatic cancer) so she had no idea.

What saved her was a touching faith in England and the English (she is Iranian) – when the scrote started threatening to have her arrested if she so much as dared to put the phone down she told them that this is England, it is a civilised country, that is not how business is done here and put the phone down.
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Bacchus replied

19 March 2019, 06:27
A neighbour of mine was called by one of these bastards.

At first she was confused and frightened; her husband always dealt with such matters and he died last year (pancreatic cancer) so she had no idea.

What saved her was a touching faith in England and the English (she is Iranian) – when the scrote started threatening to have her arrested if she so much as dared to put the phone down she told them that this is England, it is a civilised country, that is not how business is done here and put the phone down.
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NotAllThere replied

18 March 2019, 12:36
Originally posted by original PM View Post

Surely you cannot con an honest man.

Go and read the story. Maybe get help with some of the bigger words. The people being scammed here are not being scammed by exploiting their greed or dishonesty, but through exploiting their fear. Since this is often HMRC's tactic, you can understand why people might fall for it.
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AtW replied

18 March 2019, 11:23
Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post

What is more shocking that everyone excepts the idea that HMRC are now based in India and don't even question it.

What an acceptionally bright idea...
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original PM replied

18 March 2019, 09:04
Surely you cannot con an honest man.

If HMRC called you asking for money you are going to call your local HMRC office to check - unless you know you owe HMRC some money...
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DimPrawn replied

18 March 2019, 08:04
What is more shocking that everyone excepts the idea that HMRC are now based in India and don't even question it.
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NotAllThere started a topic Great bit of investigative journalism - scam calls.

18 March 2019, 06:48
Great bit of investigative journalism - scam calls.

Ruthless swindlers terrorising 10,000 UK residents a day threatening them with prison from India | Daily Mail Online

The journalist infiltrated the gang.
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