bbc 1 now. scam interceptors.

Am watching it right now 😲 that man should have just put his phone down! I was yelling at the tv😂

I was doing that too Oreo, thank goodness he eventually hung up.

The people that do this are beneath contempt.

it's a v good programme.
often something anti-crime at this time on bbc1.

I saw this today. The scams are so organised these days.

If I know I've answered a scam/sales call I keep them on the line as long as possible because the longer I keep them connected then the more it costs them and it delays them moving onto their next victim. I don't give them any information.

While never saying I could never be scanned, and I mean that. So often the people used on programmes as examples of scamming have often done really foolish things.

Like the couple last week who when the scammers 'invested' £100 for them for a week and it grew to £400. They thought that meant it would be a good scheme to invest every penny they could get their hands on into.

If I saw £100 grow to £400 in a week, I would see it as a sure fire evidence that the scheme was a scam and you wouldn't be able to see me for sand and small stomes.

So often it just boils down to greed, the scanners and the scammed

People, often the elderly who are confused and panicked into transferring money to a 'safe' account because they're told their bank account's been hacked, aren't greedy.

It's upsetting to hear them on the verge of being duped and possibly losing all of their money.

I have a dear friend who is very intelligent and, before he retired had a very senior position at the Bank of England. Last year he was scammed out of £200,000. If they can get someone like him then they can get anyone.

OVO CUSTOMERS BEWARE - "Sent by us recently to OVO energy: "We have, yesterday, been advised by one of your Call Centre staff to forward the 2 attached emails which we have received this month. In the process of complying with this advice, we have noticed the following disparities in the email addresses and the OVO logo is missing from the letter head:
(Cf '[email protected] and `OVO Energy <reply-fe91127176d047c7c-80_HTML-840162551-7208160-20@ecomms.ovoenergy.com>)
On 09/10/2023 we received the first email purporting to be from OVO advising us to change the bank details for our Direct Debit in respect of our OVO energy account. We checked with our bank and with your Call Centre. Both confirmed that the Direct Debit was already in place and active for the account mentioned in the email and that no action was required on our part. However we received a second email yesterday which again urged us to change our bank details. We rang your Call Centre a second time and not only confirmed again that no action was required by us in respect of the Direct Debit but also that OVO had last sent us an email on July 25th confirming that it had been set up. Neither of the 2 emails sent to us subsequently appeared on your system
We are concerned that:
1. both emails had the correct reference for our OVO account
2. that this is a Scam, and
3. that some of your customers may follow the instructions to alter the bank details on their accounts or
4. that some of your customers who pay by other methods may decide to to set up a Direct Debit account with the account recommended in the email'. We are still getting emails from the putative scammers even now." I posted this last week but only one person seems to have seen it....