Fuck card fraud

[jennymanara]

Had an answerphone message to ring my banks fraud line because of suspicious activity on my card. I did and it said the office was closed. So I googled and rang my bank and they said it was a scam.
I am not usually gullible. I can't believe I nearly fell for this. The reason I did was because I was worried about a payment I made and was just going to ring the bank to check it anyway, so that answerphone message sent me into a panic.

Check your phone bill too. You may have called a premium rate number.

Yes I’d check your phone bill, the scam may have been you calling them and being charged a hefty sum to listen to an answer phone message

Oh well if that happened it happened. Too late to do anything about it surely?
Just more annoyed with myself for being daft.

There's a new scam going round that appears legitimate because they're calling from a UK number. Was it 01246?

Just checked, it was an 0345 number so not a premium rate number.

They can hijack any number to make it appear local.

Google the number op.

I always do this, it normally tells you who they are and what exactly the scam is!

Just spent a long time on the phone to a lovely young woman in the fraud department. It was a genuine number. She was lovely and I felt like I was an elderly idiotic woman who could not manage modern day stuff.

It was a genuine number? I’m confused.