Yet another scam warning

I had 'Microsoft' at 9.00am this morning and yesterday morning, I gave a huge sigh and said "not again".
He hung up, result.

However, I had a text last week thanking me for buying insurance with a certain company. Needless to say I had not. Phone calls later confirmed it was a wrong number. Hmmm. The two days later a text from a finance company saying my direct debit had been set up. I checked my bank account and it had no record of this thank goodness. However I tried to phone the finance company but just met with computerised nonsense wanting me to enter my arrangement number which, of course, I didn't have. Finally in desperation I phoned as though I was wanting a loan, eventually was put through to a nice Irish lady who checked their database and could confirm that no loan had been taken out and the original applicant must have entered a wrong number. What a stress though. Modern life!

Thanks for the warning. I had a phone call yesterday telling me that I am about to be arrested for tax fraud. Crikey.
It's very unsettling even though I know it's a scam.

Sickening isn't it ?
Theft, extortion the most hateful of crimes.

I must say though after having been with the same bank since 1960 they know my spending habits-----to a fault really, until I bought a large item from B&Q and the payment was blocked I then had to phone the bank to verify who I was, using a code. Embarrassing but all in a good cause.

Thanks for the warning Craftycat

I had something similar happen to me last week. Two texts, supposedly from 02 to say the payment for my phone hadn't gone through, my account was frozen and to click on the link provided to sort it out. I was immediately suspicious and wondered how they got my number!