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    [Finance] ******** The Scam Thread *********

    Where's the fun it that?
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    Got another one this morning !!! This time the voice said: "Hi, Sam here from British Gas. Our energy adviser would like to speak with you." The voice was exactly the same tone / accent as the one the other day [and the name - Sam]. I said "Ok, just before we go on, to confirm you're a real...
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    Absolutely not a recording. It was trying to interact in a conversation with me. But got easily stumped with a simple question, definitely not a recording ....
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    I've just has a voice AI scam / spam call on my mobile .... Really strange and I didn't immediately twig. Male voice with a bland English accent. Basically trying to "sell" me a medi-sense alert device. It sounded just like a bloke on his first day reading from a crib-sheet. He said "free item...
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    With emails that look to come from someone you know. Look very carefully at the email address - whilst the name may be familiar - the actual email address / mailbox won't be. Subtle difference between spoofing an email address, not full-on hacking - quite easy to do. The one wanting Amazon...
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    But I don't think they are targeted, I reckon scammers buy contact phone lists and then call them all, probably working on a 0.1% - 1 in a 1000 success rate. Just seems its the older generation who are perhaps less tech savvy, who get scammed more regularly. Low-lifes is way too polite for these...
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    Anyone heard of Keto Complete? Is it a scam?
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    Slight change to all of the above - been getting automated calls to my mobile to say I will be cut of within 24 hours due to something dodgy with my IP - it's a pay as you go and despite 5+ calls of this nature is still working fine with EE Also had a couple of recent "Life Insurance" calls...
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    Good spot, my bad s/b: report@phishing.gov.uk i.e. not "support"
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    I had a DVLA missed vehicle tax payment about to be passed to debt recovery team. As with all these, forwarded to support@philshing.gov.uk Auto reply included: As of 31/10/20 the number of reports received stand at more than 3,613,000 with the removal of 18,071 scams and 39,313 URLs. Thank...

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