New way to report Scams.

henetha

An American lady on the phone has told me that a warrant is out for my arrest as I have committed fraud. I hope this is a scam.

??? At last, I've managed to shake her off.......she's been after me for a couple of weeks!

Why are we still getting so many if by reporting them it’s doing some good ?

There will always be scammers trying to get your hard-earned. If it’s an email click on the top where it shows the sender, the email address should give you some idea if it is genuine.

I’ve had some recently regarding deliveries that cannot be made or my address has been lost (?) Or I need to pay excess charges. Sometimes the use of language is the giveaway in itself.

I occasionally get the calls about my recent car accident, and yes, I too am going to be arrested for not paying my taxes. (Question - why does the caller have an (automated) American accent?).

When I recently had a call from the state pension service my first question was “how do I know you are who you say you are?”
The caller was able to give me my unique security number with no problem and was was very happy to go through this. Sadly we have to be suspiciously self-defensive, and give no information about ourselves to strangers, they get your full details one piece at a time. (This reminds me of being told, as a child to never talk to strangers.)

Nothing really changes.

Yes I’ve got it in my phone under check if real did Martin Lewis mention it if I remember correctly. I think that’s where I got it from lol

I have the numbers of close friends/family and business associates on my white list. Only they can get right through. I dont answer calls from unknown numbers. I google them first and if that throws up a number from someone I have genuinely dealt with I ring them back. Otherwise I block the number.

If its really important and genuine there is something called the post.