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Just been sent this... had heard about it but never seen it being done. Very slick moves by the scammers.
A variation on this ... I was at an ATM in Lewisham High St. and after entering my PIN and cash amount some little chap leant over my right and started flapping some magazine/papers over the keypad and dispay at the same time exclaiming that the machine was 'broken'. He buggered off and I waited for my card to be ejected. It never did. So I went into the BS branch the ATM was outside and explained that the machine had taken my card. They said come back tomorrow. I then rang my bank and they said I'd made two withdrawals of £190 and £50 in the last 20 minutes at an Abbey branch (happened to be about 200 yards away). !
Yeah I know.
Bank reimbursed me the full £240 after a few days.
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A variation on this ... I was at an ATM in Lewisham High St. and after entering my PIN and cash amount some little chap leant over my right and started flapping some magazine/papers over the keypad and dispay at the same time exclaiming that the machine was 'broken'.
What did he do that meant you didn't elbow him in his throat?
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Old scam alert.
I've just watched a friend fall for the telephone trick, but it may have got more sophisticated in terms of the technology. The 'Fraud Squad' ring you to ask you to contact your bank as a transaction has been questioned at an aspirational store in Regents Street. Somehow the scammers are able to allow your phone a dialling tone, but continue to listen to your next phone call, to your bank, where all your numbers, details and security questions are revealed. Darwinism, but the trick is in the electronics.
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No trick in the electronics. They just play a dialling tone down the phone to you and then cold read the call "to the bank". In reality they haven't hung up and it's the same game as before.
As ever, the simplest solution is usual the most likely one.
The obvious response to any call like this would be to hang up and then call the bank/phone company/other service provider from a mobile or from another phone or, at absolute worst about half an hour later after the scammer has given up and moved onto the next mark. If it turns out to a be a blag, get in touch with the cops and report the attempted scam so they can add to the investigations that should be ongoing.
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^ Was the manager dodge? All those notes to one waitress doesn't make sense...
Sorry, know it's a dredge but +lots.
I've worked a few places where the 'responsible' ones are the ones on the take.
Of course, once you know those above you are crooked and covering their, and each other's arses....
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How does this scam work - I have just received this SMS:
I dailled ur number at random. me name is jonathon. NO SWEARING. i have asperger its like autism a disability and i been crying abit. i need friends,How r u
I can't figure out why they would bother with this, other than to find out of a number phone number is active, and with someone gullible on the other end.
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Text back
"What the fuck, I have cunting Tourette's I can't fucking help myself. Do you want to fuck me up the shitter? Or have a crywank over the phone? Luv, Princess TW2"
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"What the fuck, I have cunting Tourette's I can't fucking help myself. Do you want to fuck me up the shitter? Or have a crywank over the phone? Luv, Princess TW2"
James, this is what every phone call with you sounds like!
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But, you did say "yes!"
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But, you did say "yes!"
That's not the point and you know it.
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When the weather's damp I still walk like John Wayne.
So yeah, it was ok.
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I hate the fake note thing- people seem to think it's often victimless, which somehow makes it worse.
I worked a 12 hour shift with a number of other people at All Bar One on Regent street.
We'd all been working the floor, and one young French girl was in tears- the manager had cashed out her bumbag and she'd taken approx £300 in fake notes.
Worked 12 hours at £5.75, earned £69, paid 30% of that in tax, then have to pay £300 back to the bar.
She ended up having lost 250 quid for working a 12 hour day.