Another scam to be aware of.

Hm999
This is spam address:
[email protected],

HMRC will never email you about rebates, etc. It's always a letter. Also watch out for iTunes and Apple scam emails.

While we're on the subject of wrong info online, please note if you're thinking of visiting a National Trust property or garden in coming weeks, please access it via the National trust site. Don't rely on the Google info that's shown on the right hand side of the page. They've got it wrong for a local house I work at and it seems impossible to get it changed. Visitors turn up and are furious that we're not open at 11 as stated, but it says 12 noon on the NT site which is correct!

TalkTalk used to ring when my contract was about to expire or if there was a 'better' offer but now I hardly ever have a call from them and when a call comes purporting to be from TalkTalk I'm always suspicious and won't talk to them. The accent is usually terrible - but how do I know if it's a scam or really is TalkTalk? Calls about problems with my computer are obviously scams.

another one to be aware of (although so far I have only had them in work) are people asking for your electricity/gas meter numbers because of a supposed data breach - don't give it as it is a scam - once they get that they can try to change your energy supplier or bill you as if you had changed but you are still paying your normal supplier as well. I had three calls in one morning same guy supposedly different energy suppliers!! As you would expect he denied all knowledge of the other calls but the number shows and was the same.

I changed my phone line to talktalk about a year back, and they have a 'last caller number bar' service, which is free: you press a number code in and its done. You can then inform them whether it was a malicious or sales call by pressing one or two. I can't recommend it highly enough.
They have also added (also free) a service which puts all callers though only if you allow them. They're prompted to record who they are and you can decide after listening to the message. You can then press a button to either add them to your ok contacts, allow the call this once, or bar them.

I had an email a while ago purporting to be from Virgin; saying there was a problem with my direct debit, and my services were about to be cut off. Never were.

And beware of taking the 'unsubscribe' option (all you are doing is to confirm that your account is 'live'). Did this just once, ages ago, and one of my accounts now gets masses of awful mail from all over the world in it's spam folder. I'm going to have to close it down - real nuisance.

I had ‘police’ ringing my mobile other day. Very aggressive, saying call was being recorded and that I’d been caught on camera using my phone while driving. This would result in £200 fine and 6 points on licence. I don’t use my phone while driving so told him to sod off. Blocked number. Was slightly intrigued to find out how they were going to scam me though. Also infuriated how someone has obvs sold my number to these deviant scum bags.

I got the tax rebate one today, get one from paypal regularly, and quite a few from lots of other companies. Usually with lots of spelling mistakes. You would think these companies would at least make sure there employees would know good English. Lol

Their, not there.

LOL indeed!

I`ve also had the calls purporting to be from BT, The first one told me that my bills in future would be reduced by 37%. I said "that`s interesting, seeing as I`m not with BT", she immediately hung up. The next day was call 2, again saying that my bills were going down by 37% and listing no end of free calls that I could have. I said "thank you, that`s very generous, especially as I`m not with BT. She asked who I was with, I told her it was none of her business, she then listed another half dozen companies, saying that they had dealings with them also, and she presumed I was with one of them, again I said it was none of her business, she started talking again, but I hung up.

MissAdventure: Thanks for this, I'll follow it up with TalkTalk.

You're welcome. I have only had one unwanted call, from a dispirited sounding young man who identified himself as 'Dyson vacuum cleaners' but he gave up and hung up.
Happy days!

I can tell phishing/scam emails a mile off. All you need to do if unsure is look at the sender details at the top left of the page where you have the option to hide or see.
Supposed banks, PPI, HMRC and the ever present Nigeria scams telling you that money awaits.
Why would Amazon send an email asking if you still want an item that hasn't been notified as being out of stock? Anyone who falls for scam emails or phone calls, evidently doesn't heed the numerous warnings in the news and on the internet.
It's not rocket science. I forward them to the relevant department of the real company so that they can collate info and help stop this menace.

You can find it online. Just ask Google.

Starlily106

Haha
THEIR not there

Gabriella please read my post again. I’m glad you’re so amazing and infallible and all knowing, (even if you can’t understand my email had nothing to do with an item being out of stock but a failure on their alleged part to fulfill their Prime delivery promise) but carry on thinking like that....what do they say about pride going before something...?

???

I recently had a call from a centre in India, and after a while I said I was very sorry but I couldn't understand what she was saying, which was nothing but the truth. The next thing her manager intervened, yelling at me that the British Empire no longer existed and I should not be rude to her staff.

Customer relations wasn't their strong point.

I had this text today. The thing is, Royal Mail do have something called Track and Trace.
But I haven’t ordered anything from Curry’s and MrA swears he hasn’t either.
So that one got deleted and the caller blocked.
But not easy to be sure whether it’s fake or not.

OldMeg
Oh dear! Sorry to have upset you.
I read ALL your email and understood it perfectly well. I know that Amazon said nothing about an item being out of stock.
My comment was saying that had it been a genuine e-mail asking if you still wanted 'the item' delivered (as it hadn't been on the designated day) that would only occur if it had been out of stock. The buyer would have been notified that there would be a delay, hence that alone would tell me (not a prime member) that it was a scam.
I apologise if the wording didn't make that clear. Prime members may get different notifications to plebs such as myself.
Feathers are very easily ruffled on here. Fortunately, I can bite bullets.

I also clicked unsubscribe on a random email and now I am flooded with spam emails - big mistake! They go straight to my 'junk' items now.
Last week I had a call just wanting to ask some questions- they caught me off guard (I was friendly!) but I gave out no personal information and answered 'no' when asked uf I would like certain firms to contact me - another big mistake! I am receiving at least two cold calls everyday now which I hang up on immediately. The list of blocked numbers on my phone is growing!!