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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 2, 2011 15:57:35 GMT
My Mother has just been rung up by someone claiming to be from Sky. They say she has overpaid by £200 and need to refund the money. They are sending her something to put her pin number into so she can refund it.
Now the moment they said PIN Number her warning bells went off. If it was legitimately Sky the money could be refunded directly to her account via the card/direct debit, whichever they have the details of.
Anyone else encountered this?
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 2, 2011 20:18:07 GMT
Perhaps Andu can shed some light on this?
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 2, 2011 21:23:15 GMT
I have spoken to our contact in the evil empire on this matter and am now convinced it's a scam.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 2, 2011 23:19:06 GMT
Indeed my Evil Empire colleagues do not operate in such a fashion.
Andy
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Post by Stomski on Aug 3, 2011 12:38:31 GMT
Obvious scam, any time anyone asks for any personal details that they should have on record, especially payment details. What do they need the PIN for? Surely they need the number, expiry date and CSV number if it was getting credited to a card?
Even if they're trying to prove who you are, they called YOU, they should have to prove who THEY ARE. So get a phone number and name and call back. Google the number too if you're still unsure it's legitimate.
I loath cold callers and enjoy wasting their time. The 3 Mobile sales man last week was very amused when I told him I didn't have a mobile despite him calling me on an 07xxx number. I then let him know it was a magic device given to me by Harry Potter and ruined Deathly Hallows for him. Pity he had no intention of going to see it.
Some aren't quite as amused. Another caller asked to talk to a member of the family. I asked if they wanted to talk to the dog as we consider her a member of the family. He then thought I was saying I was a dog. After checking in the mirror I confirmed that I wasn't, or if I was, I was a very clever one as I would normally talk like this "ggrrrr, woof woof grrrr".
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 3, 2011 12:41:33 GMT
Mum's registered on the TPS and still gets all these cold calls. I give it to them with both barrels if they ring while I'm there
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 3, 2011 12:47:54 GMT
Same here and I do the same.
Andy
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Post by kayevcee on Aug 3, 2011 17:22:01 GMT
A friend of my dad's was sick of getting calls from glaziers asking if he wanted a conservatory (this was during the housing boom) so one day they phoned up and he said "Yes! I'd love one! When can you come round and give me an estimate?" He lives on the second floor of a tenement. The glaziers actually showed up and he poked his head out the window and gave them a big enthusiastic wave as they shuffled back into their van and drove off. Apparently they don't have conservatories that can comfortably sit on 16ft stilts. -Nick |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 3, 2011 19:11:08 GMT
Thankfully I rarely get cold callers thanks to TPS. In a previous tenancy I was getting so many calls my landline was practically unusable (due to many of them being automatic messages which snarled up the phone line for up to 10 minutes at a time even after I hung up!) so I registered then with TPS and the frequency of calls dropped right off.
-Ralph
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Post by Hero on Aug 7, 2011 22:57:41 GMT
I had the same call a while back and e-mailed Andy about it.
The scam was from a company called 1eoc.
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