Chase bank just told me to go and F myself!

[EachandEveryone]

Well it was a lot shorter than the Barclays scam that went on for days even when I told them I was in oncology having chemo they scammed £9000 out of me and, thanks to you lot I got it back. This time he called asking if I paid for postage from Evri in reply to an email Evri sent saying they couldn’t deliver. I went into that email and filled it all in but never paid the delivery. He told me it was a scam and they need to send me a new card. I said well the parcel has still turned up and I’m not interested in a new card I use my phone anyway and I will call you back. His reply? F you and put the phone down. Honestly, they are relentless.

Haha! DP got told to fuck off when the Postcode Lottery phoned him to tell him he'd won (we don't play), and asked him for his post code. He said that surely as the postcode lottery they'd know that, cue the 'fuck off' and hang up. Hilarious.

If you’ve fallen for a scam before it will probably be worth getting a new phone number despite the hassle, once you’ve interacted with one, it massively increases the chance of them ringing etc

True, they sell the numbers on. Glad you got your money back.

This time he called asking if I paid for postage from Evri in reply to an email Evri sent saying they couldn’t deliver. I went into that email and filled it all in but never paid the delivery

I might be reading this wrong, but it sounds like you might have given your details to another scammer? I got a scammy text from evri this week. They seem to hit at the lucrative times of xmas and back to school times. They know almost everyone will be expecting a parcel.

A vulnerable family member falls for these scams again and again, just seeming to fly under their radar.

I got a scammer with such a horrendous accent I couldn’t understand a word he was saying. After stringing him along for a while and asking him to repeat everything he got frustrated and shouted “can’t you understand English motherfucker?”

Funnily enough that was the only part of the conversation that sounded anything vaguely like English.

Pretty sure his name wasn’t really Mark either🤔

I had it the other way round. A foreign sounding bloke rang right in the middle of me watching Scam Interceptors. He said he was from the Office of the European Commission and wanted to confirm bank details to make a payment to DH. Took all of my polite English conditioning to not tell him to 'fuck offf you scamming bastard'. But I succeed and told him he'd have to speak to DH directly. Which was fortuitous as it turned out he wasn't a scamming bastard and was who he said he was.

I had that in that I had a text from 'hsbc' while watching scam interceptors, phoned the number on the back of the card, and it had been them. All sorted and they said good for me for checking with them.

Pretty sure his name wasn’t really Mark either

Mine was in a thick foreign accent 'Hello. My. Name. Is. Barbara White'.
I replied that it was an unusual name for a man. 'What?'
Phone hastily taken over by another man. 'Hello, my name is John Marshall'.
I said that I wanted to talk to Barbara. He hung up.

Scam interceptors is actually a useful show. Never download Anydesk....

Brilliant

Why did you fill it in?!

You need to stop responding to spam texts and emails.

Assume all are fake.

if you actually are expecting a parcel etc contact the company directly on their proper phone no/email and NOT in the text or email 'they' sent you

seriously - you need to take more care of your online safety.

gardenmusic - Maybe 'Barbara White' was a man identifying as a woman and you offended them🙄

Bananalanacake
Too offended to scam me - I like it!

Emails from Evri include your name.

https://www.evri.com/cyber-security

How to spot and report potential fraud

Chuckling about the fella calling himself Barbara. 😆

I used to have to answer a lot of unsolicited calls for work. When I worked out it was a scam I would always pass them onto my manager. Who happened to be my very chatty 6 year old.
Or I would put them on hold indefinitely.

Oh no! I remember the Barclays thread. Sorry they're at you again. Scammers do sell lists of potential victims around themselves, and delivery "notifications" are ripe seeding grounds - my mum has nearly been had twice by replying to "parcel delivery" things - one with Royal Mail and one from Amazon - both looked plausible. Fortunately I caught her at it before she put in her payment details. As @Quacksalver and @AllTheWatersTurnedToClouds say - do not fill in these forms, either by text or email. Especially if - and I apologise if this sounds patronising, I don't mean it that way - you have not ordered nor are expecting anything from these companies or others who may use them.

Hope you're treatment's going OK and you're mending well. x

I just say' sound great. let me get a pen', place the phone down without hanging up and then never go back to it.

I had a phone call from virgin media recently doing the “annual customer check” aka upselling where they want to check I’m happy with my package and try to convince me to get a better one. I think it was a genuine call but how can you tell these days 🤷‍♀️. I mean no way would I have given any bank or card details out but I did tell them my postcode as they asked me confirm it. Suppose I should have refused to tell them it. I just kept repeating i didn’t want faster broadband or better tv. Again the woman barely spoke understandable English but ime that’s not unusual for Virgin call centre staff, obviously out sourced.

@EachandEveryone i didn’t know you’ve been unwell hope you are on the mend now (we were on the old Hush threads many moons ago) 💐

I really hope companies realise that outsourcing their call centres to countries that also hosts scammers creates problems that will cost them more in the long run.

Yes, even if I’d wanted faster broadband i wouldn’t have signed up to anything during that call. So many red flags, sadly her heavily accented broken English being the main one.

I got the one where they tell you there's a warrant for your arrest and you need to pay to stop it being actioned. Now most fortuitously for me I work in a Police Station with a Custody Suite, so I asked for the warrant number, issuing court and type of warrant and told them once they'd provided the information I'd arrest myself and pop myself down to Custody and have it sorted out in a jiffy. They hung up,

I had a phone call from virgin media recently doing the “annual customer check” aka upselling where they want to check I’m happy with my package and try to convince me to get a better one.

Generally they are desperate to get you onto a contract. They really hate it when you can tell them to shove it with no loss to yourself.

We don't get any calls from them because I mislaid our landline.

Most effective way to prevent scam calls is to have phone to only ring for contact numbers. They never leave a message. A few people have said "what it it's a doctor trying to contact you ?" my my answer is just "Well, then they can learn what it feels like too."