Wednesday 17 June 2009
Beware Scammers.
I understand that a number of people in the village have received phone calls which appear to be part of a fairly crude phone scam. People are being phoned by a company they have never heard of informing them that they owe money because of direct debits that have not been paid. Hopefully, anyone receiving such calls will be passing on the details to the relevant authorities. This sort of criminal operation is becoming all too common these days.
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I had this one a few weeks ago. Someone phoned on a bank holiday claiming to be BT saying that my direct debit had been cancelled and they had been unable to collect my most recent phone bill. They were going to cut off my phone unless I supplied my bank details so that they could set up a new direct debit. I was immediately suspicious because they got the amount of the most recent bill completely wrong and BT don't just threaten disconnection for a technical problem. Realising it was a scam I told them to put it in writing and never heard another thing. Of course, my direct debit had not been cancelled. If you are unsure, tell them to put it in writing and NEVER give them your bank details over the phone. BT would never act in this way. On dialling 1471 it said 'caller withheld their number'. Don't think BT do that either.
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