Tell me you're trying to scam me without telling me you're trying to scam me.

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Yup. Totally going to click on your link.

Are you interested in an opportunity to make 5k/week from the comfort of your own home?

Congratulations You have one a frist prise!

I actually did have a tax rebate this year. In the letter and ensuing email and phone calls it was confirmed HMRC only communicate initially via post about such matters. Useful to know, though initially I was cautious of the letter!

I had an army medic on Instagram the other week. I played with him for absolutely ages until he got to the point he told me where he was stationed and with what unit. I told him it was a huge coincidence because my friends DH is working with that unit (he’s not and the unit he gave me didn’t actually exist).
He went quiet for a bit then must have decided to go for it anyway and returned, at which point I told him I wasn’t that thick and blocked him.

I do love playing with them.

Thank you - I will do that. Along with most people I get a variety of scams every week, and while yes, I do smile wryly at the funnier ones, MIL had £4k plus stolen.

Too many vulnerable people will pay up unfortunately.

I had a tax rebate this year via email, no link, it told me to log into my gov.uk account. It landed in my bank account a few days later.

I have previously been SE though so they had all my details.

If we responded to every one of the we used to get DH would have a penis that stretched from lands end to John o groats!

Did anyone see Daisy May Cooper tell her wind up story on a chat show last year? She played along to the point of sending the guy photos out of an aeroplane window telling him she was on her way 😂

DM from Jason Momoa/Chris Helmsworth/Tom Hardy/Idris Elba ect.

HI! Im reaching out to my valued fans and would love to chat to you !

When you reply they can barely string a sentence together and want to chat to you on Wattsapp.

My personal favourite was the head of the CIA who wanted to put me in contact with Jason Momoa. I replied to wind him up. First message from him- " So whats your name?"
Me "You are head of the CIA, surely you already know !!!!!!"

It'll be "I've lost my cellphone..." which is an instant giveaway because no one in the UK uses the term.

The last 4 of those messages I got were HMRC telling me I was due a tax rebate (even though I've never given them my mobile number), DVLA telling me I'd overpaid my car tax (I wish!), the NHS telling me I'd come into contact with someone with covid so needed to "buy" some tests, and Royal Mail telling me I needed to pay a customs fee for a parcel delivered. All fake and all numbers immediately blocked.

That's brilliant.

I followed the story every day on her instagram. It was hilarious 😂

I got nearly £1k in tax rebate this year too. That one is definitely not a scam and you can tell that by having to go through the extremely annoying government gateway process to claim it. 🤣

Just forward all emails to [email protected]

Plus you get a letter first. A very boring HMRC letter, directly you to a gov.uk website.

I have done variants of this over the four months of nonsense calls. Some tried to tell me even me saying I'd had a paracetamol afterwards even if I didn't would trigger compensation.
I finally changeed the landline number. Absolutely wankerish ghouls working for these scam claim companies.

Sadly I've only ever had one of the slow computer calls. Fifteen minutes I talked at him. To finally reveal I didn't have an apple computer but an orange.

DH tells them he lost his leg and his hearing and everyone else died. It takes a few minutes for them to cop on sometimes.

I get the threatening letters "11th June, will you be in?" (no, I'm at work).

Despite all of the threatening letters and promises to visit on specific dates, I've only once seen a hand-delivered "we missed you" note. Evidently they must have had covid on all of the other times they promised to visit.

I see a few posters have had 'missed' deliveries. My text is always from Simon. He's obviously crap at his job😆

I have had the Apple text a few times, but don't use ApplePay. I have had loads of tax refund texts and recently I have been pretty much talent spotted as someone who would be good at making money. Obviously, if that was the case, I wouldn't need the text.

Ha! Reminds me of the message that is going around in the US saying this is a message from the IRS and you will need to pay a fine in iTunes gift vouchers
Sounds legit😂

I had one a few years ago-phone rang
me-hello?
scammer-i am from tax man,you owe us £2,000 and pay now
me-sod off mate
scammer-you pay now or police will be to arrest you in 15 minutes
me-hahahahahaha,oh do jog on matey-get a real job and stop conning people
I put the phone down

exactly 15 minutes later,the door went
whoever it was almost put the door through-it was that loud

it was my lovely Hermes guy with a parcel-I’m normally upstairs when he knocks so it was louder when I was downstairs

i swear I almost had kittens

What do the silent click phone calls mean?

This is me. Every time.

Or I tell them all about my shopping trip (it was right before my accident)...

Me: I went to PaH and bought XYZ, because little fluffy has worms and the vet Yadda Yadda...
Scammer: yes madam and the accident?
Me: yes so I then had to go to the supermarket. Mr tikihut (there is no DP) wanted steak for tea, but they were all out... Blah blah blah.

Longest I have kept them engaged on the phone was 25 minutes. I take it as time they're not harassing someone else.

They're ringing several potential victims at once and only once someone answers do they connect them to a free scammer.