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

[Cuck00soup]

Yup. Totally going to click on your link.

I've been able to really boost my income since flogging Doterra/Placebo water. In unrelated matters, come over for a coffee so we can catch up, stay at home mom friend

HMRC never do links, I often get emails from them as I have opted in and my PAYE income is variable, they always tell you to log onto your GOV.UK account. If you didn't have one of those government gateway accounts they wouldn't be sending you emails. I never get texts from them.

Phone rings “hello this Amazon, we’re about to charge you £79.99 for prime is that ok?
Me, “yup, fine”
Them “ could you confirm your bank details please”
Me, “just use the ones you have”
Them “If you don’t confirm the payment won’t go through”
Me “oh, so I’m not being charged £79.99 after all, fine”
Them “but your prime will be cancelled if you don’t confirm your back details”
Me, “fine, I don’t have or want prime”
Them “I can cancel it for you, please confirm your bank details”
and repeat till one of us gets bored.😁

The thing that's pissing me off now is that companies don't think about scams when actually trying to contact you.

DH had an unsolicited call a while ago from his bank trying to sell him a mortgage. They kept asking him to give various details to confirm it was him, obviously he thought scam so didn't. The chap on the phone was apparently getting annoyed DH wasn't giving out his personal details to a stranger who had called him. Eventually the call ended and DH called his bank to report it (through the number on the website - not the one he'd been called from) and apparently it was a genuine call!

Interesting. I had one last year and didn't get a letter at all, just an email. I initially assumed scam but when through .gov to get into my account and there was one there. Perhaps it depends on your communication settings.

Ah @Ziggyisthebestdogintheworld
I did get similar. 'Hi mum this is my new number so you can change my contact details'. As my son had just lost his phone it took me a minute.

I got a call from PayPal telling me that my account had been hacked and was being used for money laundering. Tens
of thousands had gone in and out of my account over night. Could I confirm last transactions. I refused to engage because it sounded so daft.
it turned out to be true.

My colleague is the unfortunate one tasked with answering the phone, and she had three calls this morning, all within half an hour, all telling her that the firm's gas contract is coming up for renewal and that she needed to to negotiate a new contract immediately to secure the best price. Three different energy firms, none of which we deal with.

Is it coming up for renewal? No. Did they want to ask all sorts of security questions to make sure that they were talking to the right person? Sure they did. One of them even asked her to confirm the details of the bank account used to pay the direct debit.

Our stock answer in the office now is "You know who I am - you rang me!"

I'm a straight female-it's amazing how many hot Russian girls are dying to meet me!