Yes and ask THEM for your NI number.
Yes. They should know that!
I had a text on Mr A"s mobile to say a certain *mohammed *had tried to withdraw ÂŁ.3,000 today and to contact blah,blah .
I phoned the bank & they told me to ignore it .
One thing though if peeps are going to pubs and having to give contacts ,can not the scammers maybe get hold of these numbers ??
Just saying
I agree Apricot.
A while back we had a thread about these Covid contact tracers, and I remember I read about them being given thousands of peopleâs personal contact details, yet they werenât having to have any security checks themselves before getting the job!
Just another warning about all the TV licencing scams going about at the moment.
I had this message from AgeUK, and so will show you the part about TV scammers:
How to spot this scam?
There are a few common signs that you shouldnât trust an email:
The sender has an unusual email address
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The TV Licensing organisation will use donotreply@tvlicensing.co.uk (or donotreply@spp.tvlicensing.co.uk) to email you. The scammers cannot send emails using these addresses. Instead, they may come from a personal email account or one which looks unusual.
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The email doesnât use your name or has an incorrect account number
TV Licensing will usually include your name in their emails unless you told them you donât need a licence and didnât provide a name. The scammers may insert an incorrect customer ID in the hope that you will not check that itâs wrong. -
It contains spelling and grammatical errors and inconsistent styles
Although all writers can make mistakes, itâs common to find grammatical and spelling errors on phishing emails. They may also seem too casual or unusually formal or use colours and styles that are inconsistent with the organisationâs style.
Good tip off, Mups.
Especially about the Grammar - they all seem to screw that up!
Amazon phone call, today, saying that they would be taking annual funds for Prime, this week.
Bouncy Female voice, not noticeably foreign.
Caller number was 01722-839651
A web search, on that number, finds nowt!
Have reported it via all the numbers suggested on Amazon.
:twisted:
Did they have your bank account number?
If so, speak to your bank immediately.
I had a new scam from Amazon yesterday not about my none existent Prime account this time but about a problem with a parcel. I didnât wait to hear the whole of the saga I put the phone down.
If Amazon have a problem with any parcel they will email me and I will contact them through my own site link not theirs .
Yesterday, I had yet another scam about there being a problem in collecting my TV Licence payment.
I cancelled it six weeks ago!
This is a very common scam these days, and Iâd be surprised if any others on here havenât received one!
My Banks require confirmations (that itâs me) done by them sending stuff which I have to answer.
If they donât get that they donât pay.
One of them even gave me a little âcalculatorâ which I have to plug my card into such that it sends the bank a code.
I am a little disappointed. It is 12.40 pm and I have not yet had a scam phone call today. Still got the rest of the day. Waiting in eager anticipation.
Updates for IE and Chrome - Scam Warning!
Message âWarning! Critical Update!â
Internet Explorer, Google Chrome & Mozilla Firefox!
If you get a message saying that âYou are Using an older version of Chromeâ - or Internet Explorer / Firefox- you might want to look at this scam warning first:-
If you click on âUpdate Nowâ , after having the above warning scam message, they will be getting your bank details, etc.
Yes, this is another one!
Hi Ted 
can I add I have read this warning comes as pop up message.
I never click on unsolicited pop up messages they often bring trouble .
Thanks for that Ted, duly notedâŠ
You will be getting one at 3 pm tomorrow.
Donât press Button B.
You will not get your money back!
Just receive dthis warning from Action Fraud today:
Compromised Facebook Accounts Used To Lure Victims Into Paypal Scam
There has been a surge of reports where the recipient has received messages through Facebook Messenger from friends/family requesting to use their Pay Pal account to receive funds from the sale of items on EBay. Overall, between 1 June 2020 and 31 July 2020 a total of 95 reports have been made which specifically mention that the item sold was a camera.
Messages are sent by fraudsters purporting to be friends/family stating that they have sold a camera on eBay but that they are unable to process the payment as they either do not have a Pay Pal account or because their Pay Pal account is not working. The request is that the message recipient receives the funds into their own Pay Pal account, then, after transferring it into their own bank account, they forward it onto an account controlled by the fraudster.
If the victim agrees the payment is transferred into their Pay Pal account but, after the money is transferred out, the initial transaction is reversed leaving the account in negative balance.
Multiple reports have also been received from victims stating that their Facebook Messenger accounts have been hacked and that these fraudulent messages have been sent to all their contacts on their behalf.
The total reported loss for these reports is ÂŁ44,035.
Doesnât affect me personally, as I donât have anything to do with Facebook, but I know plenty do.
Just had the scam where it says that my TV licence payment âhas been flaggedâ!.
(one of the later scams)
I chopped down the flagpole!
I put this in Gardening as well, but I am not sure where it belongs:
Hereâs a strange one.
Not sure if this should go in the âScamsâ thread, or Gardening?
Just read a short piece in my gardening magazine, which I will quote for you rather than try to explain:
Quote
"Gardeners are being urged to dispose of unsolicited seeds that have been mysteriously delivered across the UK.
The unlabelled packets were posted to customers who had previously bought items from Amazon and Ebay.
Anyone who has received these seeds should send them to - â Animal & Plant Health Agencyâ which is part of the Dept. for Environmental Health."
Unquote
How strange. I wonder what they are?
Chinese coronavirus seeds.