keitha
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Post by keitha on Aug 25, 2023 20:08:24 GMT
I rarely pick up landline calls nowadays but on the last two occasions I did answer the phone and was told that my washing-machine insurance had expired. By now isn't this an old-fashioned scam with which many people are familiar? And it's quite labour-intensive as it was a personal call rather than the automated ones usually featuring a concerned American female voice warning me of a suspect payment on an account I don't hold. My Partner gets these all the time for her Bosch Washing Machine, she actually did have insurance for a time, but they ring very year about April wanting her to renew. I took the machine to the tip about 5 years ago.
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Post by moonraker on Aug 26, 2023 13:49:49 GMT
I rarely pick up landline calls nowadays but on the last two occasions I did answer the phone and was told that my washing-machine insurance had expired. By now isn't this an old-fashioned scam with which many people are familiar? And it's quite labour-intensive as it was a personal call rather than the automated ones usually featuring a concerned American female voice warning me of a suspect payment on an account I don't hold. My Partner gets these all the time for her Bosch Washing Machine, she actually did have insurance for a time, but they ring very year about April wanting her to renew. I took the machine to the tip about 5 years ago. I don't have a washing-machine ...
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keitha
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Post by keitha on Aug 26, 2023 17:50:51 GMT
LOL about a month ago I got a random WhatsApp asking me to do a piece of work urgently.
I replied and said "sorry you have the wrong number"
I then got a few polite messages apologising and saying how sorry she was and how she would like to take me for a coffee to apologise.
the next few messages got quite flirty, and I twigged that it was a scam ( what would a very pretty 20 year old want with a 64 year old man )
I played her along and sure enough she "wanted to teach me how to make money on crypto" I said not interested and over the next few days the messages got more and more explicit and how if she couldn't help me make £5,000 a month she would "give you the best night of your life".
All I had to do was open an account via the link she sent ( which showed up as a scam)
Once the account was open all I had to do was deposit £10,000 and give her access to the account
I told her I wasn't interested in crypto and she explained in detail how it wasn't crypto it was Node Transactions ( LOL all Blockchain etc is Node Transactions ).
she sent me a series of pictures ending up with nudes ( I guess not of her ), and a request for pictures of me ( I guess that could have lead to attempted blackmail) with promises of a great weekend over in Dublin, and how she had split from her boyfriend and needed a man, and how this weekend would be the first of many. As a sign of good faith all I needed to do was open the account and send her the details and she would pick me up at the airport on the Friday night, and she knew a nice restaurant she would treat me to a really good meal and a bottle of champagne.
I guess I've taken up about 20 hours of her time now, and I think she's got fed up, this morning she called me "a useless waste of space"
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Post by adrianc on Aug 27, 2023 7:22:12 GMT
...this morning she called me "a useless waste of space" Probably the same end result if the Dublin weekend had happened...
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Post by benaj on Aug 27, 2023 7:52:42 GMT
I have no idea what keith was trying to do. More pics, more texts?
I thought the quickest way to end waste of space convo is block and leave.
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keitha
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Post by keitha on Aug 27, 2023 22:34:24 GMT
I have no idea what keith was trying to do. More pics, more texts? I thought the quickest way to end waste of space convo is block and leave. whilst she was chatting to me thinking she could scam me, I knew what she was up to so I was playing along, the more time she wasted on me the less time she had to con someone else
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Post by bracknellboy on Aug 28, 2023 6:02:59 GMT
I have no idea what keith was trying to do. More pics, more texts? I thought the quickest way to end waste of space convo is block and leave. whilst she was chatting to me thinking she could scam me, I knew what she was up to so I was playing along, the more time she wasted on me the less time she had to con someone else still, your time wasn't wasted - you got more pics  Reminds me of a car I was cycling behind a month or so ago. It had a "bumper sticker" which read "Send Nudes".
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Post by macq on Aug 28, 2023 11:56:19 GMT
Should have told her you would pay for the meal & Champagne if she would just swap her crypto for these really good p2p investments you have (photo's optional  ) |
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Post by adrianc on Aug 28, 2023 13:17:11 GMT
...for these really good p2p investments you have (photo's optional ) 
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Post by moonraker on Sept 4, 2023 18:00:33 GMT
Had a call a couple of hours ago about the installation of insulation some years ago. "How do you know that," I asked. Whereupon she said "goodbye" and rang off. Pity. I keep on promising myself that just once I shall stifle my impatience and annoyance and string the cold-caller along for a few minutes.
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Post by adrianc on Sept 4, 2023 21:36:40 GMT
Had a call a couple of hours ago about the installation of insulation some years ago. "How do you know that," I asked. Whereupon she said "goodbye" and rang off. Pity. I keep on promising myself that just once I shall stifle my impatience and annoyance and string the cold-caller along for a few minutes. On quiet days in the office, I used to love cold-callers. Points for how long you can keep 'em before they hang up on you. Extra points if they swear at you first. My crowning glory was having one accuse me of wasting his time. ...then there was the double-glazing cold-caller many years ago. I'd answered all their questions honestly and fully, but not volunteered information they hadn't asked for. We'd got an appointment set up for somebody to come and measure for a conservatory... "One thing, before you go - how will it work on a rented second floor flat?"
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Post by bracknellboy on Sept 13, 2023 10:30:41 GMT
Hadn't checked my father's email for a while. This was sitting in there, looking much more professional than it looks here as this was just a copy and paste. As I was in a hurry, I almost almost hit the verify account button. The "How can you unblock your account?" bit though suddenly rang alarm bells, and I did what I would normally do and look at the sender address. Ho hum. If my father was still sufficiently compos mentos to be looking at this email I wonder what would have happened...
Hello XXXXXX
In our continuing efforts to safeguard your email account and maintain a secure environment, we consistently oversee all email accounts for any potential suspicious behavior. Following a recent update to our system aimed at enhancing your security, we now require all users to validate their email accounts.
**IMPORTANT** To avoid any interruption to your service, please follow the steps below:
Click on the 'Verify Account' button below.
You will be redirected to a secure page on our website.
How can you unblock your account?
The fastest way to unblock your BT Mail account is to:
Verify Account.
Please note that failure to verify your account within 72 hours of receiving this email may result in a temporary block on your email account. We understand this may cause some inconvenience, but we assure you this is a necessary step to ensure the highest level of security for our customers.
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Post by benaj on Sept 13, 2023 10:48:27 GMT
Well, I should feel blessed as most of those emails are filtered to the junk folder. The good news is, regardless what they know about the "email account holder",
NO ACTION REQUIRED.
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Post by keitha on Sept 13, 2023 10:54:49 GMT
Had a call a couple of hours ago about the installation of insulation some years ago. "How do you know that," I asked. Whereupon she said "goodbye" and rang off. Pity. I keep on promising myself that just once I shall stifle my impatience and annoyance and string the cold-caller along for a few minutes. On quiet days in the office, I used to love cold-callers. Points for how long you can keep 'em before they hang up on you. Extra points if they swear at you first. My crowning glory was having one accuse me of wasting his time. ...then there was the double-glazing cold-caller many years ago. I'd answered all their questions honestly and fully, but not volunteered information they hadn't asked for. We'd got an appointment set up for somebody to come and measure for a conservatory... "One thing, before you go - how will it work on a rented second floor flat?"LOL one the the numbers in my office at one time was the same as a local tyre dealership with a couple of digits reversed. We used to give them the correct number. but on one occasion after a proper "Karen" rang several times and even after we told her repeatedly we weren't the tyre company she still demanded a price I put her though to a colleague who was a petrol head, and he quoted her a silly low price, and then said that the price was only valid for the next 30 minutes.
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Sept 13, 2023 20:46:58 GMT
Many years ago a small slip of using the wrong town isdn code , the town I worked in had two depending if the telephone number required was 5 or 6 digit resulted in calling us instead of a local hotel group. To my horror my co-worker having tryed to inform a caller of there error but just getting getting anger and abuse return, gave up and took the booking with a casual no need for a deposit or confirmation sir just turn up on the day I have all you details recorded it will be fine and hung up.
We also often got calls for a local garage and after an angry no wanting to listen call told the caller , no worries sir it will be available for collection in 30mins just a few checks on your new gearbox, seems the customer only wanted a new battery but the call unexpectedly cut off before he could express his full feelings.
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