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Tim in Scotland



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New Car tracker scam on the phone
Just had a panic phone call from my 89 year old mother saying she has had 3 phone calls from different 0845 phone numbers this morning offering her “a special deal on a satellite tracking and security system” for her car. The callers claimed that it would even stop her car “from getting stole”. She didn’t give any info out and also blocked the numbers on her land line. They are obviously cold calling as if they had gone to any trouble to research her they would have found she drives a 1998 Honda Civic not worth stealing!
So be aware folks that there scum out there trying to sell trackers and security systems over the phone to unsuspecting types, it might even pay to warn any elderly relatives to be aware of this scam. Pangea Green D250 90 HSE with Air Suspension, Off-road Pack, Towing Pack, Black Contrast roof , rear recovery eyes, Front bash plate, Classic flaps all round, extended wheel arch kit and a few bits from PowerfulUK Expel Clear Gloss PPF to come
2020 D240 1st Edition in Pangea Green with Acorn interior. Now gone - old faithful, no mechanical issues whatsoever ever but the leaks and rattles all over the place won’t be missed!
Post #800714 4th Nov 2019 11:04am
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Procta



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right o, sign her number up to this, along with anyone else's you want to add. Thumbs Up

https://www.tpsonline.org.uk//tps/index.html Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back

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Caterham



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I've signed up to that more than once and so far as I'm concerned it doesn't hold much weight.

Just the other day I had some muppets with very English names from the other side of the world telling me I was heading to jail for defrauding HMRC deliberately for the last several years.
Lets just say I wasn't in a rush and managed to entertain myself for almost 15 minutes starting with me having to tell them my name (Mr Michael Smallmouse), they went away and confirmed my name was correct and the allegation was indeed against my good self. They suggested a small payment of £1987 could be made to avoid court proceedings.

blithering fools.
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dorsetsmith



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reply to scam phone call) with you are thought to the fraud desk at local police station how can i help. phone call ends Cool


BT can provide caller ID for free now
Post #800804 4th Nov 2019 8:15pm
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Tim in Scotland



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I’ve been registered numerous times with TPS for land line and mobile and while they often work fine for UK based scammers the system doesn’t work for those based outside the UK and using digital screening to make it look like the originator is in the UK.
In late August I travelled through Brussels airport where my mobile number must have been scanned as all through September I had calls every 15-20 minutes from numerous African countries, Thailand, Cambodia, even blocking them didn’t reduce the calls as they just used different ones. In the end I switch off my mobile for a week and since then only one spam call that the number indicated might be from Turkey, but that is an inconvenient way to deal with the problem. I suspect the problem was caused because normally I switch off the Bluetooth but forgot to do that on that journey...... Pangea Green D250 90 HSE with Air Suspension, Off-road Pack, Towing Pack, Black Contrast roof , rear recovery eyes, Front bash plate, Classic flaps all round, extended wheel arch kit and a few bits from PowerfulUK Expel Clear Gloss PPF to come
2020 D240 1st Edition in Pangea Green with Acorn interior. Now gone - old faithful, no mechanical issues whatsoever ever but the leaks and rattles all over the place won’t be missed!
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Procta



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Caterham wrote:
I've signed up to that more than once and so far as I'm concerned it doesn't hold much weight.

Just the other day I had some muppets with very English names from the other side of the world telling me I was heading to jail for defrauding HMRC deliberately for the last several years.
Lets just say I wasn't in a rush and managed to entertain myself for almost 15 minutes starting with me having to tell them my name (Mr Michael Smallmouse), they went away and confirmed my name was correct and the allegation was indeed against my good self. They suggested a small payment of £1987 could be made to avoid court proceedings.

blithering fools.


We noticed a sharp stop in been pestered on a night now, in fact i think its been well over 5 years easy since we were last pestered. But what i have stopped doing now, is not putting in land lines/ mobiles for insurance quotes and CVs. If you every decide to put a CV in for a job, make sure you set up a seprate Email address and maybe a cheap mobile pay as you go thing too. I was harassed with cold calls to the point i nearly deafed one of them at work! Again i signed my mobile up to this service and it all stopped. So you just have to watch where you are putting your details in. Also beware that some of the jobs on the job site dont even exist! Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back

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Post #800927 5th Nov 2019 7:54pm
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