Someone has just phoned me…

Delila

I don’t believe the caller knows anything about you, is just calling a list of numbers and using the same spiel hoping to occasionally strike lucky and find someone who fits the bill. Of course they don’t know you at all - if you ask them to tell you your name they’ll quickly change tack, as they don’t know you from Adam, or what your circumstances are.

Exactly this.

I don’t believe the caller knows anything about you, is just calling a list of numbers and using the same spiel hoping to occasionally strike lucky and find someone who fits the bill. Of course they don’t know you at all - if you ask them to tell you your name they’ll quickly change tack, as they don’t know you from Adam, or what your circumstances are.

Yes, and you can also add the number of whoever called you, and details of the reason they gave, so that other people are able to read it is a,scam too.

I'm due any minute now for my daily call about my faulty and probably dangerous loft insulation.

I live in a downstairs flat.

The company has your phone number and age so has assumed you may want a pendant. If you have entered a competition, voted, phoned an 800 number or bought anything then your details are out there.

Use a web site called ‘who called me’ and you can see if others think it is a scam. Useful site

ferry23

I had a similar call a few weeks back. The bloke was quite aggressive and told me that he was sure I must be concerned for my own safety or something very similar.

I told him that if he wanted to come and say that to my face then he'd be worrying about his own bloody safety, not mine!

I’m relieved to know that others have had the same call. I try not to get angry as I think it’s usually young people just trying to earn some money but today’s call just took the biscuit. Especially as I am feeling rather old and creaky at the moment!

I have noticed that since we got rid of our household landline I get very few scam calls as others have said just ignore no point upsetting yourself. Still get the odd one on my mobile but I just hang up

I just don’t answer the phone if it’s an unfamiliar number

If you copy the the number into a search engine that may well help you find out if it’s a scam. I never phone 1471, that brings a cost.

eazybee

Check the number on the internet, which will tell you whether it is a genuine number or one that is used for scams.

I don’t want to dial 1471 as those scam calls tell you to dial 1 and then charge you a fortune. I always dial my mobile number after I’ve had a scam call. I’m just so angry at the cheek of it!

I had a similar call a few weeks back. The bloke was quite aggressive and told me that he was sure I must be concerned for my own safety or something very similar.

I told him that if he wanted to come and say that to my face then he'd be worrying about his own bloody safety, not mine!

MayBee, had this scam phone call over a week ago and immediately hung up. It’s obviously doing the rounds. The caller knows nothing about you, don’t give it another thought.

Check the number on the internet, which will tell you whether it is a genuine number or one that is used for scams.

Social Services sometimes ring me about a pendant alarm - have you had any communication with them in past few months or had a recent fall?

It doesn’t mean someone has access to your health records.
It just a chancer.
They cannot scam you out of money unless you give them your bank details.