Reply to: I feel such a moob

[CryingSheep]

I got scammed a year ago, but its out of date now. I was just putting my shopping trolley back when some lowlife offered what seemed a pound for the trolley.
When I emptied my change out later discovered it was a euro coin

If you kept it, with the pound value dropping and dropping soon you can say you scammed him!

[JohntheBike]

Welsh?



Sorry could not resist.....

ha ha!

[Old Greg]

The IP scammers are using spoofing software to look like they are dialling from somewhere close. The last time I heard an accent that broad on the last attempt was when I was in Bangalore, the call said Bolton.

You should have engaged them in a conversation about pea wet.

[Hobosapien]

An easy way to avoid land line phone scams is to ...

... not have a phone connected to the landline.

I only use mine for fibre broadband.

Mobile goes to voicemail if number not recognised from my contact list, unless on that particular day I'm expecting an important call from someone I can't be sure what number they're using.

[NotAllThere]

An easy way to avoid land line phone scams is to have a phone which displays the number calling.

Doesn't work, due to call spoofing.

Initially I white-listed my address book - all others to the voicemail. Then when my SP upgraded, the new box doesn't all for white-listing, so now ALL calls go to voicemail. I get an email with the message a minute or so later, so if it's important, I'll get the message.

For my mobile, I've got search.ch app on my smartphone. It's very good at recognising call centres. Any such calls I receive are automatically muted, and later I can block them. Maybe there are similar apps that work in the UK.

[BrilloPad]

I hang up as soon as I hear a foreign accent.

Welsh?



Sorry could not resist.....

[Mordac]

I hang up as soon as I hear a foreign accent.

We live in a diverse, multicultural society. I'm assuming you'd hang up if you heard a Norfolk accent?

Having said that, I probably would as well...

[BR14]

In theory, I think a dodgy web page could use Ajax to send the server values of every value as it is entered and before you actually submit the form.

so Ajax is the Achilles heel?

[OwlHoot]

I twigged it wasn't genuine just before I clicked on the link. ..

In theory, I think a dodgy web page could use Ajax to send the server values of every value as it is entered and before you actually submit the form.

[JohntheBike]

The IP scammers are using spoofing software to look like they are dialling from somewhere close. The last time I heard an accent that broad on the last attempt was when I was in Bangalore, the call said Bolton.

I hang up as soon as I hear a foreign accent.

[NigelJK]

The IP scammers are using spoofing software to look like they are dialling from somewhere close. The last time I heard an accent that broad on the last attempt was when I was in Bangalore, the call said Bolton.

[JohntheBike]

Phone and Email scams

An easy way to avoid land line phone scams is to have a phone which displays the number calling. I guess you will also have to have a contract with your supplier to enable this feature. I only answer those numbers that I recognise, or are from a mobile. Many calls are listed as INTERNATIONAL, or are preceded by 00. Some have the number withheld, Clearly I don't answer any of these. However, I've noticed recently that scam callers have started using mobile numbers, so that approach doesn't always work.

I almost fell for an Email scam which appeared to come from Paypal. By co-incidence, just shortly before the mail, I'd had an issue with Paypal which turned out to have been genuine. So the Email claiming that my account had been compromised initially looked genuine. I twigged it wasn't genuine just before I clicked on the link.

But as other commentators here have seen, it can be easy to fall foul of a scam, so we must be ever vigilant.

[NotAllThere]

I got scammed a year ago, but its out of date now. I was just putting my shopping trolley back when some lowlife offered what seemed a pound for the trolley.
When I emptied my change out later discovered it was a euro coin

And you wonder why people want all the European'ers out of the country hey.

Gibbon was scammed by a middle class Englishman, who'd just returned from a holiday in Tuscany.

[OwlHoot]

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[Uncle Albert]

I got scammed a year ago, but its out of date now. I was just putting my shopping trolley back when some lowlife offered what seemed a pound for the trolley.
When I emptied my change out later discovered it was a euro coin

I hope you've kept it. It'll be worth more than your £1 very soon.