I've had the phone calls recently. never responded. Just put the phone down. Strange though as they seem to coincide just after I have made purchases. Is Amazon leaking???
https://www.tradingstandards.uk/news...cam-resurfaces
https://who-called.co.uk/Number/01363821212#Video
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Not phone calls,but after placing a recent order I received an email saying my account had been suspended and to click on the link to rectify matters,yea right.
My eldest daughter got stung by the "account has been suspended" email just after placing an order.Originally Posted by Bonzodog
https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.p...Amazon+account
Though that one is all sorted now, yesterday she had 2 debits out of her bank account saying they were from "Uber" - which she has not used in 6 months. One was in the UK and the other was in Amsterdam. These debits don't show on the her Uber account (app). She phoned her bank and has cancelled her card plus they have refunded her the 2 payments totalling £45.
Seems absolutely rife at the moment with all the increased online activity.
Same with the "no fault accident" phone calls - just a random try until they hit someone who has indeed had an event and falls for it.
My partner was on the phone to them yesterday regarding 2 purchases from them using a credit card that had never been registered with them and that hasn't been used anywhere for quite some time, she had to register the card for them to trace the purchases.
Turned out it had been used by 2 different people on the same day, both with different surnames to my partner, I'd like to know how this got through security checks that amazon are suppose to carry out, 2 different people using the same credit card with a different name on it.
I hate these scamming motherf***ers with a passion. My elderly father-in-law got caught by them not so long ago - they had him on the phone for 4+ hours while they installed software on his laptop and set up various loans in his name for around £20k. Luckily we found out very quickly and were able to go through and sort out all his online accounts/passwords/etc, wipe and rebuild his PC -- and thankfully his bank were on the ball too and froze his account, although that took another 3 hours on the phone to sort out.
It was a massive PITA for us and very scary for him - there is a special place in hell for these scumbags!
Sorry that turned in to a bit of a rant. But stay vigilante folks - for every 100 of us who are wise to it, there will be 1 poor soul who gets stung.
I doubt it's a leak, just the fact that more people are shopping online these days and so the scammers are busier.
My Mum, who's never had an Amazon account in her life, gets these calls, so it seems they just phone random numbers.
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A friend of mine who is a very clever teacher almost got stung by the TV license email scam. He’d only renewed his license a few hours earlier and then received the scam email.
Sometimes the timing can catch you out.
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My mum had a phone call recently from supposedly from virgin saying there was a problem with her broadband luckily she doesn’t have a computer and doesn’t know how to use one
Most of the phone calls are automated. If you pick up and don't say anything, the automated diallers just hang up. If it is a real person, they usually will speak and identify themselves. Take care folks.
Some people take them on and keep them on the line pretending to he dumb like were is start button etc then after aN hour or so tell them they use a commodore Amiga
Another one is to say "give me a minute please I have something on the grill", go and sit down for half an hour then return to the phone and say "not interested ta".
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My phones operate off a white-list - if you are not on it - they don't ring.
Like everyone else, I occasionally get these. I usually try to waste as much of their time as possible. If they're on the phone to me, they're not scamming someone else.
The last one was Sky.
Scammer: "Hello Sir, I am calling from Sky, I am sorry to tell you that someone has hacked your Sky router and is using your internet. Can you please be telling me what colour your router box is blinking."
Me: "Oh dear. I can tell you that it's blinking black. How does knowing that blinking help?"
Pretending to be deaf is good fun too. The last time I did that, I had the guy screaming down the phone, you could hear the hubub in the scammer call centre fading away as his yelling was affecting those around him.
Different kind of scam, but we are currently experiencing people with Amazon and Deliveroo rucksacks attending as though making a delivery. They put any parcels they see into the rucksack and walk off. The thieves wear hi viz and look like ordinary delivery staff.
Crazy; seeing this thread after I spent half an hour last Sunday seeing these videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpp1sIL1m5Q&t=48s
This guy is AMAZING!
Seen this with my morning coffee at 5am; my day was immediately better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5L3em2cZEM
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