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Scam calls.

Robert124

Have any of you received suspicious scam calls recently?

Today I got a call claiming to have an urgent message for me from the immigration service. I was asked to press 1 for English or 2 for Chinese. I hung up.

Last year I got a call that there was a £600 transaction on my visa credit card and asking me to press 1 to speak to an advisor if I didn't recognise the transaction.  I don't have a visa  credit card.

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  • I get a lot of spam/scam calls. It may not be anything to do with you - there was a scam bust in London last year on an automatic dialler scam base (someone had a machine which robotically called random combinations of numbers until one picked up - incidentally that's why sometimes you might find you get 'silent calls' (where you pick up and there's no answer) - the automatic dialler is checking if the number is live so later they'll get a real scammer on the other end of the line to try and scam you)

    Also if you ever had a blog or a social media that got hacked (for me it's both - I had a blog where my email was public and couldn't be hidden, and Wattpad had a massive data breach a few years ago now) scammers share any numbers they get with their cronies. 

    But pretty much everyone gets scam calls because of the automatic dialler thing so I wouldn't worry. Just block the numbers, never give any details if you're unsure who's on the end of the phone, and always feel free to hang up on a suspected scammer. If it's a real company they'll contact you another way is how I think about it

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  • I get a lot of spam/scam calls. It may not be anything to do with you - there was a scam bust in London last year on an automatic dialler scam base (someone had a machine which robotically called random combinations of numbers until one picked up - incidentally that's why sometimes you might find you get 'silent calls' (where you pick up and there's no answer) - the automatic dialler is checking if the number is live so later they'll get a real scammer on the other end of the line to try and scam you)

    Also if you ever had a blog or a social media that got hacked (for me it's both - I had a blog where my email was public and couldn't be hidden, and Wattpad had a massive data breach a few years ago now) scammers share any numbers they get with their cronies. 

    But pretty much everyone gets scam calls because of the automatic dialler thing so I wouldn't worry. Just block the numbers, never give any details if you're unsure who's on the end of the phone, and always feel free to hang up on a suspected scammer. If it's a real company they'll contact you another way is how I think about it

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