Warning. Gov.UK site? SCAM?

About phone scam calls, I leave the answer machine on all the time. They never leave a message.
I only pick up the phone if I recognise the number.

The problem is I do not ermember the number of all the people who ring me who I will happily speak to. So I can look at the number , not recognise it, yet it is someone I know.

Sadly scammers are getting increasingly sophisticated so we all have to be much more vigilant. I'm always suspicious of lanline calls as very few of my friends call my landline. I often don't answer it if I'm busy as if the calls aren't actually scams they are mostly unwanted marketting calls. If the call is important from a friend they can leave a message. Junk callers never do!

I consedered a call blocking service but I actually quite enjoy winding up scammers if I'm in the mood and have the time to spare!

MOnica, don't you have caller ID. whereby the person's name is displayed, if a known contact ?

Yes, but not all numbers are programmed into the phone. Immediate family all have caller ID, but there are lots of people I only speak to occasionally or workmen who I speak to a lot over a short period then then the job is done, so they will not be in the system.

Yes, I have been caught in a similar scam. Government sites are hijacked. Really have to fight to get money returned. You have to be really careful that you are using a government site.

I do exactly the same and didn’t realise for 3 months x but the Halifax cancelled it and re payed my account x

The first time I came up against this sort of thing was 15 years ago, when I wanted to buy a copy of a birth certificate. I thought I was buying one from the government site, but when the amount to pay flagged up, I knew that was not the government office site.

You still have to pay, but not such a large double figure amount.

Thanks for the warning. Car tax due!

Update. I tried to tell the bank, but all 4? of the staff were busy, doing not a lot.
I checked my bank account today, and the amount has been repaid. I had taken screen shots of the on line conversation, just in case the bank needed proof of their promise to refund.