Scam Interceptors (BBC TV)

I don’t know. I do remember years ago long before the internet, mobile phones etc etc it was said that criminals and tricksters would look through the deaths and funerals in the paper to identify people who had just lost a loved one and would therefore be vulnerable/ living alone now/ potentially have inherited some money.

I don’t know why the message hasn’t yet got through to ignore unexpected phone calls purporting to be from your bank, or ‘Microsoft’ asking you to download something on to your computer, and not to click on spam texts or emails.
Yes, there are some very clever fraudsters, but the main things to avoid are well publicised.
I think is we know anyone who might be vulnerable to such scams we need to warn them.
Anyone can be targeted, but some people are more trusting than others.

I often watch this very interesting and informative programme but I do have a problem with that bloke Rav Wilding.
He's so pumped-up and full of himself and comes across as quite hostile, he ruins this excellent programme for me, alas 🤔

Ilovedogs22

I often watch this very interesting and informative programme but I do have a problem with that bloke Rav Wilding.
He's so pumped-up and full of himself and comes across as quite hostile, he ruins this excellent programme for me, alas 🤔

I love Rav and just cannot agree, each to their own!

He’s only normally hostile towards the scammers.

Housecraftandcommunitystudies

I don’t know. I do remember years ago long before the internet, mobile phones etc etc it was said that criminals and tricksters would look through the deaths and funerals in the paper to identify people who had just lost a loved one and would therefore be vulnerable/ living alone now/ potentially have inherited some money.

Yes, one particularly awful case featured a woman who said she’d just buried her husband.

I wonder whether truly horrible people in the U.K. trawl through local papers in order to compile lists to sell on? Or would these overseas call centres have online access to a mass of U.K. local papers?

Think it's more simple generally
Lists are compiled of anyone who has engaged with cold callers.
These are then traded among other tele marketers and ot scsmmers

The death notices in our local paper have got so expensive to put in that many don’t bother.

It’s either word of mouth or Facebook to find out who has died in the town.

'*What else could label you a sucker*
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speaking on the phone to people you don't know instead of hanging up.

Cossy

Ilovedogs22

I often watch this very interesting and informative programme but I do have a problem with that bloke Rav Wilding.
He's so pumped-up and full of himself and comes across as quite hostile, he ruins this excellent programme for me, alas 🤔

I love Rav and just cannot agree, each to their own!

He’s only normally hostile towards the scammers.

The scammers deserve all they get from Rav Wilding.

In my neighbour’s case I’m quite sure it was her addiction to those Word Search ‘competitions’, where you conveniently phone in your every last detail at ££ per minute. She was doing 2 or 3 every week.

Yes, DH was phoned by a friendly young woman after he did some of these competition.
We thought she was a scammer.

I'm surprised ITV has not banned them.

Freya5

Cossy

Ilovedogs22

I often watch this very interesting and informative programme but I do have a problem with that bloke Rav Wilding.
He's so pumped-up and full of himself and comes across as quite hostile, he ruins this excellent programme for me, alas 🤔

I love Rav and just cannot agree, each to their own!

He’s only normally hostile towards the scammers.

The scammers deserve all they get from Rav Wilding.

I agree.
I like Rav and all the team, especially Nick Stapleton.

Nick Stapleton never intended to follow in the footsteps of his campaigning parents, John Stapleton and the late Lynn Faulds Wood. But now, like them, he wants to save consumers from conmen and fraudsters

Well, I never realised that Nick Stapleton was their son.

Most of our numbers are bought.
If this story wasn’t so sad it would be funny.
Some weeks ago the team were able to stop a woman being scammed.
When Nick got through to her and explained who he was her reply to him was oh hello. I love your program. I watch it every week 🤦🏼‍♀️