Why cant more be done about scam callers/call centres?
Over the past few months I've had multiple attempts via text and calls to scam me out of my hard earned cash, it just seems to be getting worse. Last week alone we've had people calling from my so say energy company at work to get me to renew my contract which is by all accounts soon to run out. I don't have an energy account as its all done through my landlord so calls like these are red flags to start off with.
By far the attempts to scam me via my mobile phone are on the increase, I was recently ported across by Virgin to O2 and last week received 3 calls telling me as I'm such a great customer they're offering me 40% discount. Of course i went along with it and was passed to “Jasper” the manager who could action the discounts. They sent me 2 rather convincing texts which looked like from O2 warning of scams in the first, then followed 30 seconds later with an activation code. I was then asked to read out the 6 digit code, when i told him it was 1,1,1,1,1 and a smiley face he realised he was being taken for a ride. He then had the audacity to get aggressive with me and shouted i was wasting his time, after some swear words and telling him he was the scum of the earth he hung up. Quite futile i know however it stopped him for 10 minutes ripping off some elderly person out of their pension.
What i cant understand and perhaps someone with more technical know-how than me can explain is why we can seemingly do anything with technology yet are virtually powerless to stop these con merchants from attacking us at will?
How can tech not be blocked that allows these calls to appear to be coming within the UK? The calls i had last week on my mobile showed up as coming from Edinburgh but i highly suspect they weren't and more like 5000 miles to the south east.
Its been bad for years but since covid it seems to be getting worse…are we really powerless to stop this?
Why cant more be done about scam callers/call centres?
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Linc
I fell victim to the exact same O2 scam. My bill had literally just gone I was planning on calling O2 to get a better deal and so when I got a call from the scumbug scammer claiming to be from O2 and offering the 40% discount I thought my luck was in.
They new my address, email and exactly how much my bill was, so I never suspected a thing.
It was only when he said ‘ I was a very nice man’ that I began to wonder, as it was a odd thing to say.
I called O2 back and they confirmed it was a scam and that they had set up a new contract and had ordered a new iPhone
Only thing puzzling me is how the scumbags would have collected the phone. As it would have been sent to my address presumably.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Not too sure if true but I’ve seen a post on Nextdoor where 2 phones arrived and then a guy rang the bell claiming to be from the phone company stating that he was there to collect them as they had accidentally been sent or some similar yarn.
The home owner didn’t hand the phones over and it later transpired that new monthly contracts had been taken out in his name.
