PSA COVID Scam text

[joe narvey]

Apologies if this is in the wrong place, but just in case you have vulnerable relatives that may fall for this..

[sickie]

Thank you for the heads up
Not that I would of fell for that as it just screams scam. But many more vulnerable people will fall for it.


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[joe narvey]

Thank you for the heads up
Not that I would of fell for that as it just screams scam. But many more vulnerable people will fall for it.


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My brother lives closer to my father so gets to deal with these things more often than I do but elderly people are so easily scammed by these thieves.

[BillyCasper]

Are these numbers traceable, phoneable, contactable?


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[joe narvey]

Are these numbers traceable, phoneable, conatactable?


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Tbh I haven’t tried or reported. Most of these things can be faked. The only useful data in this scam will be the address where the solicited information is dumped but typically this is accessible remotely by the fraudster and we won’t get access to logs see who accessed it. Hosting the compromised data could be a server or your home PC that is being used for hosting without your knowledge.

[sickie]

The phone number will just be a disposable sim and most likely will be turned off / binned after a few day's to a week.
Tracing it will probably lead to nothing.

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[burnside]

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/sus...-email-actions

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/...eid=1b3e6debe4

https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/report-phishing

[joe narvey]

Thanks. I could investigate* but my intent is just alerting forum members that vulnerable people are receiving these.

* I was an adviser to NHTCU, SOCA and CoLP on online fraud.

[Kingstepper]

The phone number will just be a disposable sim and most likely will be turned off / binned after a few day's to a week.
Tracing it will probably lead to nothing.

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Can you even use a sim w/o registration?

[sickie]

You can buy a sim from almost anywhere.
As for registration I highly doubt they'd use their real information and I doubt anything is ever checked when registering a sim.
Contract yes pay as you go nahh.

Can you even use a sim w/o registration?

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