No scam or nuisance calls in 2 weeks .

[Alan Medic]

I've been getting BT and Amazon on the landline in the last few days. At least I could understand them.

[Spartacus]

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> I've been getting BT and Amazon on the landline in

> the last few days. At least I could understand

> them.

Lol

But they are in an obscure dialect called "American" 😆

[DulwichFox]

I get the Amazon and BT scams on my Landline too.

My I.P has been compromised in a foreign country

My BT Broadband and phone will be cut off in the next few days .

I have to press (1) to speak to an Engineer to sort.

As if

Foxy

[Sue]

I just keep my landline on permanent answerphone.

I can hear any messages, so if it's someone I want to speak to (rare, as most people call my mobile) I can intercept them.

Otherwise, they can just witter on.

But I get very few spam calls.

[tiddles]

Been getting the scam bt calls for the last few weeks - have a bit of fun with them before they finally hang up.

[Lynne]

New one this morning, my internet will be cut off due to illegal activity. Please press 1 etc etc

[DulwichFox]

Lynne Wrote:

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> New one this morning, my internet will be cut off

> due to illegal activity. Please press 1 etc etc

That is a very old one. Ignore it. Your internet and landline will not be cut off.

Foxy.

[Spartacus]

Lynne Wrote:

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> New one this morning, my internet will be cut off

> due to illegal activity. Please press 1 etc etc

Sorry Lynne

My fault I reported you for sending "those" pictures to me 😱

[Lynne]

I thought I could trust you, Spartacus

[Spartacus]

Sorry Lynne, it was all good until that last one, the one that made all the sailors on HMS Ark Royal blush. I mean how on Earth ? Why on Earth and where on Earth were you ?

[teddyboy23]

Scam call this morning to do with money.another ex wife wanting more allowance.

[Spartacus]

Had a scam email today telling me my TV licence was due to expire

Watch out for this one as the TV licensing emails normally have your name and partial post code in them where as the scam ones don't

[Spartacus]

I've been involved in yet another accident ,careless me, and had great fun asking the real person at the other end "are you my mummy?" (Echos of doctor who came to mind) followed by "can you tell me where I left my toy car?"

Strangely they hung up .. most disappointed in the resilience and perseverance of these people

[malumbu]

Funny that. I hadn't had a nuisance call for months until last week and so was caught off guard. "when you get home tonight have a long hard think about why you are encouraging people to commit fraud". I think that was one of my better answers. In the office once I said I'd put it on speaker phone so we could all here, but they hung up immediately.

[Pugwash]

Twice a day for past week HMRC have contacted me - soon as I hear the recording I put the phone down.

[Spartacus]

Amazon are calling again

If my calculations are correct, in the past 12 months my renewals have cost me ?1,264

Thank the stars I don't have an Amazon account so I just ignore the calls

[KidKruger]

Pugwash Wrote:

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> Twice a day for past week HMRC have contacted me -

> soon as I hear the recording I put the phone down.

haha - one thing you can be sure of, HMRC never call back !

[Chick]

This week I have had six virgin media router faults can they connect to my pc, one Amazon for an account owned by Cynthia, one EE we have a problem with your payment. That was a text and I later realised EE do send text?s but it?s always from 150 not another mobile number.

The EE one was problematic as I was concentrating on it whilst driving and went through a twenty mile an hour speed trap at 22 (on the speedometer so it was probably lower) and got flashed at. This was Sydenham Hill but will probably get three points and ?100.00 fine way out of proportion for the misdemeanour. I no longer find them funny.

[Chick]

Another one today from the Halifax.

[Spartacus]

Chick Wrote:

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> Another one today from the Halifax.

Was it Howard ?

[Chick]

No another text message.

[Pugwash]

One today saying that I had made a purchase of ?600 with my visa card!

Son in law's reply to the 'accident' scams is to say - i am glad you called, my Porshe was a complete right off and I suffered 2 broken legs, a spinal injury and broken hand., I was only grateful it was not the Rolls Royce that had been hit! The caller always puts phone down.

[Spartacus]

I'm now getting the next iteration of the Amazon prime renewal calls

It goes "You have spent ?399 pounds on your amazon order and your purchase will be dispatched soon. If you did not make this purchase press 1 to cancel."

Really can't wait to see what I bought, hoping it's at least something useful or frivolous like a drum kit so next time a spammer calla I can play my drums down the phone to them.😱

[Pugwash]

We had 6 nuisance calls in one day last week- half putting the phone down and others a recorded message.

[Spartacus]

Brilliant

An hour ago my bank contacted me to say that there has been an attempt to withdraw money from my account on a new device.

On their instructions I transferred to a new account (I'm overdrawn so that's going to be interesting)

Half an hour later HMRC called as I owe them unpaid taxes, I gave them my new account details to do a direct debit from.

Curious to see if robbing scammer one to pay scammer two will work

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for information I didn't really fall for it and no actual details were given out.