another scam

Airwave!
Airwave! Member Posts: 2,471
edited 1. Aug 2011, 16:38 in Community Chit-chat archive
I have just had a call from the Civilian Intelligence Information Centre, who kindly offered to go over my personal details, I told him ever so bluntly what I thought of his assistance!

Beware of the scammers.

S'funny, he didn't call back?

Its a grin, honest!

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  • coco67
    coco67 Member Posts: 2,374
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Thanks for the warning, if i get a call i shall reply " well your not that intellagent as im not civillian im alien and when we invade your gona be my first specimin for experimentation so be warned, we are around" then hang up hahaha

    i do stuff like this to window sales people, i ask them when they started making windows for spaceships or submarines etc
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,087
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Will be extra vigilant,,,honestly some vulnerable people could actually fall for it.
  • tkachev
    tkachev Member Posts: 8,332
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    My 12 year old son showed me a text claiming he was entitled to £3000 plus pounds for compensation for accident injury with command to text STOP to stop it. I got a debt agency text with text STOP to stop receiving them. It seems so unfair they can target young children. My son was genuinely confused.
    He was also getting charged 20p per text for the charts to be sent every couple of days something we never asked for!

    Elizabeth
    Never be bullied into silence.
    Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
    Accept no ones definition of your life

    Define yourself........

    Harvey Fierstein
  • Airwave!
    Airwave! Member Posts: 2,471
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I must have a had a 100 emails in the last month, all with cyrilic script on them, the spam box pulled most of them out of my 'Inbox', but not all.

    I would like to just walk away from emails until they get cleaned up but, hey ho!

    8) Its a grin, honest!
  • Airwave!
    Airwave! Member Posts: 2,471
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Just had another phone call, from guess whom! Turns out they are an alarm company, when asked why they were ringing a number thats on a preferential list they said they weren't trying to sell me anything and would I just answer a few personal questions, I think I put a rather large flea in his ear!

    So, someone sells them my number and knowing that its on a preferential list they still try it on, aagggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !

    Ex-directory next????

    Sometimes I wonder why I bother having a phone.
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Being ex-directory doesn't help that much. I now, when asked by mail order companies or whoever to put a phone number obligingly do so, with one incorrect digit. (It's rare for me to order stuff this way, can't remember the last time!) Any info they sell on will be inaccurate and stops me being bothered by nuisance calls. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • Airwave!
    Airwave! Member Posts: 2,471
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I don't know about ladylike, certainly not gentleman like!

    Its a grin, honest!
  • coco67
    coco67 Member Posts: 2,374
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    ive just a call starting we value our lloyds tsb customers and want to offer bla bla bla please confirm your account details by type the card number and 3 didgit code into your phone now :shock: im not with these thankgod and usually hang up straight away but thought id check this out, will be handing details to comunity copper tomorrow he can do what needs to be done then
  • wannabewriter
    wannabewriter Member Posts: 114
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    tkachev wrote:
    My 12 year old son showed me a text claiming he was entitled to £3000 plus pounds for compensation for accident injury with command to text STOP to stop it. I got a debt agency text with text STOP to stop receiving them. It seems so unfair they can target young children. My son was genuinely confused.
    He was also getting charged 20p per text for the charts to be sent every couple of days something we never asked for!

    Elizabeth

    NEVER, EVER reply stop to texts like this - that's what they are relying on. They send these out and then those numbers which reply STOP are listed as 'live' numbers, and they are then sold on to other marketing companies who will then bother you even more. Delete the texts without responding and they will assume your number is not live (as it's all done automatically) and they should stop.

    If they are charging you to receive them, you can take this up with the complaints people (can't remember the name of the top of me head). There was an interesting report about all of this about two months ago, I think it was a Channel 4 documentary but i could be wrong.

    There are movements to have changes in the law for these texts to also be classed as cold calling and to fall under the same rules; at the moment they are a legal grey area. Your best bet is to ignore them on the most part...
  • hileena111
    hileena111 Member Posts: 7,099
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    The same applies for anything that comes into your e.mail.....into junk or into your inbox which you think is junk......if you delete it they cant tell whether its a live address but if yu open it...even if you dont click on links they then know its a live address.
    Love
    Hileena

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