phone spam scam

Tigger

go a message left on my phone to urgently call

01475897079 said they were doing a credt check on me

googled the number and its a reverse charge scam

be aware

biko

Are you in UK? That's a UK number

omb0wyn5ehpij9

If you are stupid enough to believe that somebody was doing a credit check on you and that they would leave a message on your phone.....then you deserve to lost credit!!!!

biko

No one deserves that
Not everyone is as technology savvy / street wise as AH posters

omb0wyn5ehpij9

Magnus wrote: »

No one deserves that
Not everyone is as technology savvy / street wise as AH posters

It's not being tech savvy. It's called common sense

I'm glad to see that the OP did have the common sense to google the number before ringing it back

themadchef

Even the scammers are getting with the times. "You just won a holiday" scam is pretty sh1t now as very few can afford to go even if the flights are paid for.

I'd say almost everyone is worried about credit issues.... Smart little scammers.

To say people are stupid, well, arent they? Think of all the people who fell for the holiday scam.

Remember, to ring that number is a knee jerk reaction. Most people will do it without much thought, and do it out of fear.

chin_grin

G'wan and call it from a landline. See what happens. G'wan.

Tigger

it was on a lindline answering machine

i assume it'll work from here

she got the # off cro.ie had my bussines number etc

and bryn may i reccomend /b/ if thats yer attitude

RoadKillTs

I rang it ..... from my work phone

I feel bold

omb0wyn5ehpij9

RoadKillTs wrote: »

I rang it ..... from my work phone

I feel bold

Well you have to tell us what happened now :P

RoadKillTs

Well you have to tell us what happened now

Just goes through to some "business dept" and then she starts asking you for all your details. really slowly


work phone ftw

Who knows I might even ring back after lunch.

Tigger

RoadKillTs wrote: »

Just goes through to some "business dept" and then she starts asking you for all your details. really slowly


work phone ftw

Who knows I might even ring back after lunch.

sh rang me again i explained that her mother would be ashamed and she took it very well
she explained it all

apperently one of my creditors is checking up on me

faceman

So the moral of the story is dont use google?

BillyGoatGruff

Ringing from your work phone. :rolleyes: So basically you are giving scammers money. Good one. Would not like to be the owner of a company that has you as one of its employees.

gaf1983

Thanks very much for that, my scambaiting alter-ego will be giving them a call off Skype shortly.

Berty

BillyGoatGruff wrote: »

Would not like to be the owner of a company that has you as one of its employees.

Are you working right now?

BillyGoatGruff

Berty wrote: »

Are you working right now?

I want to say no so that you can't make a point. But yes, yes I am:o

RoadKillTs

I want to say no so that you can't make a point. But yes, yes I am

FAIL

BillyGoatGruff

RoadKillTs wrote: »

FAIL

Not ringing premium numbers or costing the company money though.

RoadKillTs

Not ringing premium numbers or costing the company money though.

Well you are costing them money as you are on boards instead of working. :rolleyes:

Tigger

gaf1983 wrote: »

Thanks very much for that, my scambaiting alter-ego will be giving them a call off Skype shortly.

cool

Slidey

RoadKillTs wrote: »

FAIL

You fail at simple quote functions

Poor Uncle Tom

Observation:

You guys are cool....:)

BillyGoatGruff

I would not be doing anything else anyway and my boss would have no problem with me being on boards. Not sure you could say the same. I don't know what point you are trying to argue. It's pretty bad to be ringing premium rate numbers from work and then coming on here more or less saying " ripping off my employer FTW .... Must do it agian after lunch". I think you will agree:). Maybe not though.

Tigger

i'm the boss at work

i gave a written warning to a person with a 3 post count for browsing boards during work

RoadKillTs

I would not be doing anything else anyway and my boss would have no problem with me being on boards. Not sure you could say the same. I don't know what point you are trying to argue.

The point I am trying to make is that we are both wasting our employers money.

RoadKillTs

You fail at simple quote functions

You fail at punctuation.

gaf1983

At least the scammer has partly succeeded in their mission - at least they're wasting SOMEONE's money!

tricky D

themadchef wrote: »

To say people are stupid, well, arent they? Think of all the people who fell for the holiday scam.

Somebody has to fill the left hand side of the Normal Curve.

jdunlap

Have you tried one of the online reverse lookup tools like white pages or yellow pages? Those are pretty good with reverse number searches.