Stonks Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 BEWARE My house phone line and E-mail provider is TalkTalk with whom I have a direct debit agreement. The other day I got an E-mail, supposedly from TalkTalk saying I had changed my bank details and thatI was £146 : 25 in arrears. The scam E-mailers wanted me to send details of my bank account| I contacted TalkTalk directly on 0800 542 3735 and told them of this E-mail. They hadn't sent it and it has turned out to be a SCAM. If any reader gets anything similar I would advise you to ignore it and contact whoever your provider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikes10 Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 On a similar topic: An item on last Friday's Radio-4 edition of 'You & Yours' highlighted a scam called 'courier fraud' Basically someone calls you claiming to be a police officer saying your credit/debit card has been cloned and the at the police would like the original card. the officer says an authorised courier will be sent to your home to collect the card. The caller also asks you to enter your card pin number on your phone key pad. The item starts about 1 minute 50 seconds on the following link. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036l2lg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alchresearch Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 Almost every service provider has details on their website about phishing scams and the ways they will contact you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harvey19 Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 I had one saying I was in dispute about an Ebay purchase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owethemnowt Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 I love getting the Nigerian relation ones. Recently, I turned down yet another 10% offer to have 100,000,000 m $ transferred into my bank account in order to help rescue / save another PM / President from a coup / toppling while on holiday / business trip to US / Europe. Keep them coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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