On-line fraud and contact scam attempts are just getting out of hand
There hardly isn't a day goes by where I don’t receive a call either through the business or my personal mobile or an email scam
Recent ones:
Sky ringing me up on my mobile (displaying a genuine Sky customer telephone number) saying they would like to offer a substantial discount on my account for being a loyal customer. Initially I thought it might be genuine until they asked for my email address that was registered to my account and asked me to spell it out rather than ask me for my security telephone password that I’d set up with them
I kept them talking, giving a false email to see how far it went and how the scam was going to work
Anyway after 20 mins of me pretending I’d received an email from them and that my mobile internet connection was a bit dodgy I worked out what the scam was, they wanted to log into my sky account to get all my details
They realised I’d given them false information and got really nasty
I’ve since had 3 calls from that same scam call centre saying the same thing each time displaying different telephone numbers so they are difficult to block
One we get at work every week is this
A phone call from our energy provider (they get it right probably because it’s on a data base or our receptionist has said we are under contract with them)
Anyway they say there is a problem reading our smart meter and they want to book in an engineer to visit
But first before they can book in the engineer, they just need to go through some security questions
You can guess the rest
Even if they don’t get into our financial bank details, they can sell the information on as it will give them how long our contract is with our current supplier
Sometimes when I’m feeling in the mood I string them along for a bit of sport
