I've just had a call from a very unconvincing chap purporting to be from HSBC, who I do not bank with. Apparently somebody tried spending £400 on amazon with my card. They didn't. The plan was to get my card details under the guise of ordering me a new one.
I knew from the get go it was a scam. I get these every so often and my usual M.O (if I'm home and have anything better to do at the time) is to lead them on for as long as I can be bothered and then laugh at them.. or blow a whistle down the phone.
Usually the plonkers can't tell me what my name is but this one could.
It all fell apart for him when after 10 minutes I asked him to confirm what address he had on my file as I'd recently moved and can't remember if I informed the bank of a change of address.
I'm just wondering where they get peoples details from? He's not calling random numbers as he asked for me specifically.