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Today’s Scam du Jour
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Irritates the piss out of me !
We can all see its BS but my mum constantly rings me everytime she gets a call/email/farts to check its ok and not a scam etc etc, she finds it very difficult to differentiate between dodgy and legit stuff and having been a victim of the scamy f***ers in the past she clearly on the hit list and gets quite a bit
We can all see its BS but my mum constantly rings me everytime she gets a call/email/farts to check its ok and not a scam etc etc, she finds it very difficult to differentiate between dodgy and legit stuff and having been a victim of the scamy f***ers in the past she clearly on the hit list and gets quite a bit
Yes Pauly - completely agree.
My aging auntie is constantly trying to top up ApplePay cards and the like trying to give these scammers money for whatever she thinks they are selling at this present moment.
Luckily she isn't good with numbers so keeps on giving them the wrong card number etc etc.
However, we caught a fair sum going from her account a few months ago. At the moment she is talking to a very nice Nigerian man (+234 phone code) and there is no way I can stop her. A few months ago it was a very nice American man (+1 phone code). He got a few hundred out of her for 'his mum who was having trouble with medical bills' - but not quite sure how much.
I manage to 'accidentally' block all strangers on her phone every now and again but she has figured out how to change the settings back now.
It seems she plays these 'free' games on her iphone and they have chat functions. That is where she gets reeled in. Everyone is messaging 'Hi, great to meet you. You sound like a great person. Fancy a chat?' with pretty pictures of various men/women.
I have no way to stop her and Action Fraud told me I can't do anything on her behalf - whilst i was sitting in her front room in front of her and she was refusing to give any of the scammer's details.
GGGRRRRRRRRRRRRR
My aging auntie is constantly trying to top up ApplePay cards and the like trying to give these scammers money for whatever she thinks they are selling at this present moment.
Luckily she isn't good with numbers so keeps on giving them the wrong card number etc etc.
However, we caught a fair sum going from her account a few months ago. At the moment she is talking to a very nice Nigerian man (+234 phone code) and there is no way I can stop her. A few months ago it was a very nice American man (+1 phone code). He got a few hundred out of her for 'his mum who was having trouble with medical bills' - but not quite sure how much.
I manage to 'accidentally' block all strangers on her phone every now and again but she has figured out how to change the settings back now.
It seems she plays these 'free' games on her iphone and they have chat functions. That is where she gets reeled in. Everyone is messaging 'Hi, great to meet you. You sound like a great person. Fancy a chat?' with pretty pictures of various men/women.
I have no way to stop her and Action Fraud told me I can't do anything on her behalf - whilst i was sitting in her front room in front of her and she was refusing to give any of the scammer's details.
GGGRRRRRRRRRRRRR
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Once you’ve donated to a charity and they have your contact details they are sold on. From that day on you will be plagued with letters and phone calls from other charities and anybody who cares to pay for the data.
After a life time of giving to charity my elderly parents let a charity into their home who were collecting tools and kitchen equipment for donation to developing countries. They didn’t leave their details and they didn’t leave any tools, just a few kitchen items left behind.
I didn’t tell them what had happened as it wouldn’t have changed anything and it would have broken them.
You just hope that somebody will catch them in the act and nail them to a tree for the crows to pick clean.
After a life time of giving to charity my elderly parents let a charity into their home who were collecting tools and kitchen equipment for donation to developing countries. They didn’t leave their details and they didn’t leave any tools, just a few kitchen items left behind.
I didn’t tell them what had happened as it wouldn’t have changed anything and it would have broken them.
You just hope that somebody will catch them in the act and nail them to a tree for the crows to pick clean.
MiL: I'm locked out of my Farsebook.
ME: how do you know?
MiL: I just had a pop up saying so
ME: But Helen said you just posted on your Farsebook
Mil: yes, but I'm still locked out, I got to ring this number.
ME: don't call them.
MiL: But I need to get it unlocked
ME: you are not locked out if you can post.
MiL: But I need my Farsebook.
...
MiL: I'm locked out of my EE
ME: How do you know
MiL: I just got a text message to say I was locked out.
ME: but you are on the phone to me now, so how can your account be locked.
Mil: What should I do about it
ME: Go into the store if you don't believe me and ask them.
...
Mil: EE shop said it was a scam!
FFF there is no helping some..
ME: how do you know?
MiL: I just had a pop up saying so
ME: But Helen said you just posted on your Farsebook
Mil: yes, but I'm still locked out, I got to ring this number.
ME: don't call them.
MiL: But I need to get it unlocked
ME: you are not locked out if you can post.
MiL: But I need my Farsebook.
...
MiL: I'm locked out of my EE
ME: How do you know
MiL: I just got a text message to say I was locked out.
ME: but you are on the phone to me now, so how can your account be locked.
Mil: What should I do about it
ME: Go into the store if you don't believe me and ask them.
...
Mil: EE shop said it was a scam!
FFF there is no helping some..
My Father in Law has been scammed many times, he has always donated thousands to real charities, but now he gets the scam calls and E Mails and he falls for them all.
We tell him to ignore all requests and we've explained that he's on a "suckers list" but he still gets had over. The only good part is we got him to agree to cancel his on line banking, making him less vulnerable. It doesn't help that we live about 170 miles away from him.
These people are vermin.
We tell him to ignore all requests and we've explained that he's on a "suckers list" but he still gets had over. The only good part is we got him to agree to cancel his on line banking, making him less vulnerable. It doesn't help that we live about 170 miles away from him.
These people are vermin.
One of many other scams appearing on Facebook groups also.....
What’s the problem, double the price because it’s blue and yellow?
Me and FB are in different universes, not interested in what my ‘friends’ had for dinner.
All this makes my pi$$ boil.
A year or so before my father passed away (suffering from dementia) my brother and I were helping with his finances, turns out he was S.O. a couple hundred pounds a month to charities. We cancelled all but one. A few moths later he had been talked into setting more up. Should be illegal.
A year or so before my father passed away (suffering from dementia) my brother and I were helping with his finances, turns out he was S.O. a couple hundred pounds a month to charities. We cancelled all but one. A few moths later he had been talked into setting more up. Should be illegal.
Giving away personal details to make insanely wealthy people even wealthier, while their tech is used for scamming you (either by bad actors on the same platform or, indeed, by targeting ‘special deals’ at you based on what your cookies tell them - personalised pricing is a thing now) just seems insane to me.
And these ‘tech bros’ openly admit they want control but people wouldn’t vote for them due to their beliefs… so they’ll get control by using these platforms among other things.
Remember the Cambridge Analytica nonsense - that’s play-school stuff compared to what they can do now, especially with AI helping gather, interrogate and work out how best to use your data.
Yeah, and you might be able to use it like it's legal tender.
I do, I only pay electronically when no other option is available.
When we lose cash, it's gone forever and we will be worse off.
I used to donate to charities using cash, now they want a direct debit!!!
I try to use cash as often as possible but it's more and more difficult these days.
I recently had a 'discussion' with a friend of mine about how he always wants to pay cash. He is a self employed plumber and often takes cash for services. This is basically so he can avoid paying taxes. He therefore wants to pay cash for obvious reasons.
He is therefore stealing from the countries economy. Therefore people who are PAYE have to make up this shortfall in money by paying for people who avoid paying their fair share.
He didn't like it when I asked if his children went to a private or state school, if he ever used a doctor/dentist/drove on roads etc etc. and then asked him who he expected to pay for their education stc.
Sooner cash is a thing of the past and all earnings can be traced and people pay their fair share the better for me.
He is therefore stealing from the countries economy. Therefore people who are PAYE have to make up this shortfall in money by paying for people who avoid paying their fair share.
He didn't like it when I asked if his children went to a private or state school, if he ever used a doctor/dentist/drove on roads etc etc. and then asked him who he expected to pay for their education stc.
Sooner cash is a thing of the past and all earnings can be traced and people pay their fair share the better for me.
