Plagued by scam calls *DON'T POST PHONE NUMBERS*

Calling now 'from Amazon' about a purchase (the value of which kept increasing during the call) of an Amazon gift voucher against my account (which I don't have). After feigning surprise and asking for details etc for 5 or 6 minutes, I was asked if I wanted to let the purchase go through. When I said " Sure, why not? It's not a huge cost" he hung up on me for some reason. Very poor customer service. 😀

Definitely, they use my name as shown in the phonebook.

It exists online. I was referring to landlines. I've never had a scam call to my mobile who had my name.

They most certainly target mobiles. You've been fortunate if you haven't had a dozen of them.

A month or so ago the country was bombarded with scam calls to mobiles purporting to come from numbers very similar to your own,

Read back the thread.

I got one from the Garda HQ number a few days ago. Absolute joke this is still going on.

I've been getting these too, although on my Android phone they appear as +353386....., so on first sight it looks a bit like a valid Irish mobile number. On my wife's iPhone they appear like yours, i.e. 0386.... which isn't a valid Irish landline prefix, so more obviously a fake number.

I've not answered any of them, but then I virtually never answer an unrecognised number anyway.

Had one this morning. Didn't answer it but it looked like an Irish mobile but had 8 digits after the 087 rather than 7. Had a google and I don't think that's even a correct format but they're probably hoping someone will just see the 087 and answer it.

The phone companies are getting off light. Perhaps they might consider doing something.

Had a missed call from an 085 number this morning, first one in months, and I thought it was a courier looking for directions, as happens regularly, and I’m waiting on a delivery.

So I rang it back, but got a voicemail/message as if it was a phone that was turned off saying ‘ the person you are calling is not reachable, Meteor will send them a text with your number, if you do not want to send your number press *9’

So I’ve no idea if that’s a genuine Eir/Meteor number I rang, or if I’ve just been charged a premium rate for a returned call! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Anyone have similar?

or know if calls to Eir numbers without voicemail message set up would have that message?

thanks

Yes I was thinking that could be it, that possibly the number I called back was an old out of service Meteor number perhaps 👍

cheers

They seem to have stopped for me. Was plagued with them but havn't had one in a few weeks. Hope I'm not inviting trouble posting this🙂

085 numbers by any chance?

Yeah Ive had 3 in the last 3 days telling me Im locked out of my Bank of Ireland account, I dont have a BoI account. 3 different numbers and 3 different variations of the scam link they wanted me to visit aswell. The country must be getting hosed with them atm, heard a few people commenting on them recently.

085 number too?