Just curious to see if this has happened to anyone, and how it happened etc?
Luckily not happened to me
Luckily not happened to me
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I was scammed when I was living in China. Nothing too dramatic. A motorbike taxi driver asked if I would held him break a 100 yuan note for smaller change (worth about £10). I gave him 100 yuan in notes and coins, and took his 100 note. When I went to spend the note, it turned out to be fake. That was the last time I did anyone a money related favour!
I had my PayPal hacked by someone who used it to pay for something (about £400 worth) but PayPal sorted it out quickly for me. It was still stressful though 
Also just remembered when I tried to start a business about 12 years ago I had a local police charity ask if I wanted to place an ad in their charity leaflet that would be posted to many houses. I said I'd be interested and then started to get threatening letters to pay for it. Turned out to be a scam .
Also just remembered when I tried to start a business about 12 years ago I had a local police charity ask if I wanted to place an ad in their charity leaflet that would be posted to many houses. I said I'd be interested and then started to get threatening letters to pay for it. Turned out to be a scam .
Someone tried to scam me.
Last year I posted my couch for sale on eBay. I had someone come up as interested and they said they were going to send a delivery firm round to pick the couch up etc and could they have our address.
all seemed above board to begin with however I noticed even between messages they seemed a bit abrupt.
the next thing they said they would pay me the couch price and their quoted pick up price so they would transfer 1500 into my PayPal account. They then said with the £500 they’ve given me for pick up that I would arrange the pick up and pay with that money (would have been a scam account). It all seemed not right.
They sent me a bogus PayPal email which looked like they had transferred the money into my PayPal. I could tell it was a fake and checked my PayPal which confirmed no money had been added.
I told them I knew it was a scam and blocked them.
luckily I was dubious from the start and as it went along it was very apparent it wasn’t legit, but I can see how some people would be fooled by it.
Last year I posted my couch for sale on eBay. I had someone come up as interested and they said they were going to send a delivery firm round to pick the couch up etc and could they have our address.
all seemed above board to begin with however I noticed even between messages they seemed a bit abrupt.
the next thing they said they would pay me the couch price and their quoted pick up price so they would transfer 1500 into my PayPal account. They then said with the £500 they’ve given me for pick up that I would arrange the pick up and pay with that money (would have been a scam account). It all seemed not right.
They sent me a bogus PayPal email which looked like they had transferred the money into my PayPal. I could tell it was a fake and checked my PayPal which confirmed no money had been added.
I told them I knew it was a scam and blocked them.
luckily I was dubious from the start and as it went along it was very apparent it wasn’t legit, but I can see how some people would be fooled by it.
Someone tried.
They somehow got.my.debit card details and tried to order £75 of Deliveroo to an address in Southend.
The bank stopped it and called and asked if I was in Southend, I was Hull at the time.
They sent a new card.
They somehow got.my.debit card details and tried to order £75 of Deliveroo to an address in Southend.
The bank stopped it and called and asked if I was in Southend, I was Hull at the time.
They sent a new card.
I’ve had lots of fraudulent activities on most of my accounts, I have a CIFAS marker now which has helped massively
About 10 years ago, someone once managed to get my bank card details ( possibly because I hadn’t signed out of my Amazon account page) and spent 200€ ( which I could barely afford) on boots! Bank called, card cancelled and I was reimbursed!
More recently, there was a competition on Facebook to win 4 tickets for a trip to a local-ish zoo. I signed up, thinking it would make a nice gift for a family I know or the one I nanny for, and was notified I had won and was asked to pay 1.50€ postage fee for the tickets. No sign of the tickets, and my account was debited 10€ for a music sharing subscription, so again, called the bank and had my card cancelled. Never claimed the 10€ back, as I had willingly given my details, so was technically to blame/no theft had really occurred as I gave my details away voluntarily.
The ad popped up a few times after, and every time I saw it, I replied « No thanks, this is a scam! ».
More recently, there was a competition on Facebook to win 4 tickets for a trip to a local-ish zoo. I signed up, thinking it would make a nice gift for a family I know or the one I nanny for, and was notified I had won and was asked to pay 1.50€ postage fee for the tickets. No sign of the tickets, and my account was debited 10€ for a music sharing subscription, so again, called the bank and had my card cancelled. Never claimed the 10€ back, as I had willingly given my details, so was technically to blame/no theft had really occurred as I gave my details away voluntarily.
The ad popped up a few times after, and every time I saw it, I replied « No thanks, this is a scam! ».
Similar happened to me. Had no idea until my card got declined.
When I was about 16 someone stopped me in Newcastle and wouldn’t let me leave until I had gave them £50 for a 20% discount voucher for their hair salon.
From that day on I have never stopped to speak to any cold steer caller or charity worker, I don’t care how rude I appear they can all get ducked. All they want is money.
I’ve had the sofa scam too twice. They both had an identical story of how they were disabled and couldn’t arrange it themselves. I gave it away for free in the end.
From that day on I have never stopped to speak to any cold steer caller or charity worker, I don’t care how rude I appear they can all get ducked. All they want is money.
I’ve had the sofa scam too twice. They both had an identical story of how they were disabled and couldn’t arrange it themselves. I gave it away for free in the end.
I know someone who tried to sell something for 500 pounds, and got lured into that PayPal scam and it cost them £1000, even though they were the sellers!
I had someone approach me in the station complex that led up to a mall to make a donation to the Marie Curie foundation. I said I could give her 2/3€, but apparently, a minimum of 5 was required. I paid up, got my daffodil, explaining that I thought a minimum donation would possibly put off a lot of people and went into the mall, got all the stuff I needed, then went back down to the station area to get my train home. The same charity donation person started coming my way, and I was prepared to give her a piece of my mind. We made eye contact and the look I gave her made her back away rather quickly!
My friend saw her horse was up for sale on Gumtree. Turns out they had used her photos from Instagram and wanted 5k for a 15k horse. She messaged them pretending to be interested and they said to meet her in a totally different city with the cash and then they would take her to 'him'. Horse is a she, they clearly didn't have a clue about horses.
A few years ago I got robbed of £600 by someone pinging my contactless card (which was in my wallet in my pocket) 20 times within one minute (£30 limit each time) in the middle of the city centre. Obviously the person had been walking very close to me and I had no idea. Bank called that night and texted to say my card had been cancelled and explained why. They refunded the money and issued a new card, and sent me this form to declare that I had nothing to do with the theft.
Around 15 years ago I made a £100 purchase on eBay, sent a cheque which got cashed. I kept waiting for the item and realised it wasn't coming when I checked the person's profile a few days later and their feedback had gone from positive to negative with a series of more than 10 negative feedbacks and counting -- they had "sold" multiple items for £00s in one big scam and apparently disappeared. Then eBay deactivated the seller account, so clearly several people had been reporting it. I really considered going directly to the address where I sent the cheque to confront whomever, but I was a poor student and after losing £100 I couldn't be arsed spending the money to travel. Bank didn't refund me as I gave the money willingly.
My mum almost got scammed out of £2,000 earlier this year and when she described it to me I couldn't understand how stupid she could be to fall for it, red flags everywhere from the beginning and she stopped within minutes of sending the money.
Around 15 years ago I made a £100 purchase on eBay, sent a cheque which got cashed. I kept waiting for the item and realised it wasn't coming when I checked the person's profile a few days later and their feedback had gone from positive to negative with a series of more than 10 negative feedbacks and counting -- they had "sold" multiple items for £00s in one big scam and apparently disappeared. Then eBay deactivated the seller account, so clearly several people had been reporting it. I really considered going directly to the address where I sent the cheque to confront whomever, but I was a poor student and after losing £100 I couldn't be arsed spending the money to travel. Bank didn't refund me as I gave the money willingly.
My mum almost got scammed out of £2,000 earlier this year and when she described it to me I couldn't understand how stupid she could be to fall for it, red flags everywhere from the beginning and she stopped within minutes of sending the money.
I think someone tried to scam me once. I'd recently moved and I phoned to change the address on my dog's microchip. The man who answered sounded a bit strange, we all know how people talk when we call a contact centre, and he didn't talk like that. He answered by asking for my visa or Mastercard number, not why I was calling. I started giving my number then I got then muddled when I was saying them , then I decided it sounded dodgy so I just hung up .I wrote and sent the company a cheque instead.
Someone I know got scammed into buying a holiday home that didn't exist . They were browsing for a property abroad and found some affordable apartments that were in the process of getting built. There was a website , and they kept getting photos of the progress. They actually went out and viewed the building site, but they couldn't go in for insurance reasons. It was a genuine property, but it all belonged to someone else , the whole website and all the paperwork she got was all a con . She paid a deposit and some installments , she was scammed out of a few thousand.
Someone I know got scammed into buying a holiday home that didn't exist . They were browsing for a property abroad and found some affordable apartments that were in the process of getting built. There was a website , and they kept getting photos of the progress. They actually went out and viewed the building site, but they couldn't go in for insurance reasons. It was a genuine property, but it all belonged to someone else , the whole website and all the paperwork she got was all a con . She paid a deposit and some installments , she was scammed out of a few thousand.
I was. I was very very naive and gave someone my bank card to use to get lunch.
they then took their gf around Westfield and took out 4 phone contracts for the latest iPhone that was out. Not sure what one it would of been maybe the 5?.
Didn’t know nothing about it. Until a week later when my mum phoned me fuming asking what all these letters for phones was about.
I called the police and the phone companies and they just didn’t care or pursuit. Total to pay was around £2.5K. I never paid it and thank god it’s all fell off my credit report now never to be seen again. But yeah bit stupid of me. Was a friend I’d known for a long time.
they then took their gf around Westfield and took out 4 phone contracts for the latest iPhone that was out. Not sure what one it would of been maybe the 5?.
Didn’t know nothing about it. Until a week later when my mum phoned me fuming asking what all these letters for phones was about.
I called the police and the phone companies and they just didn’t care or pursuit. Total to pay was around £2.5K. I never paid it and thank god it’s all fell off my credit report now never to be seen again. But yeah bit stupid of me. Was a friend I’d known for a long time.
I got nearly £300 taken from me after my Uber Eats account was hacked by someone in Canada, then a week later my mother’s card was also hit (it was linked to the account too, despite Uber eats insisting they’d removed all our details) and she lost £150. Managed to get it all back from the bank but to this day refuse to use Uber eats, they still haven’t deleted my details from their website after nearly a year.
That’s sickening that it was a friend
I was too nice for my own goodI got nearly £300 taken from me after my Uber Eats account was hacked by someone in Canada, then a week later my mother’s card was also hit (it was linked to the account too, despite Uber eats insisting they’d removed all our details) and she lost £150. Managed to get it all back from the bank but to this day refuse to use Uber eats, they still haven’t deleted my details from their website after nearly a year.
That’s sickening that it was a friend
A few weeks ago my father was out shopping. His debit card didn't work in one shop for some reason, don't know if it was a problem with the card or the machine but he was able to pay cash and went about his day.
Later that evening he got a text saying his card had been blocked and to log on to a website to input his details and reactivate the card. He stupidly clicked the link but thankfully his anti-virus software blocked the site and he got no further.
He called the bank who said there was no issue with his card, they didn't know why it hadn't worked earlier, they hadn't sent him a text (they never send texts) but to be safe they cancelled the card and issued a new one.
It absolutely sickens me to think he could have lost thousands if the scam had been successful. Please, please, please remind your family and friends to never, ever, ever click on links in text messages.
Later that evening he got a text saying his card had been blocked and to log on to a website to input his details and reactivate the card. He stupidly clicked the link but thankfully his anti-virus software blocked the site and he got no further.
He called the bank who said there was no issue with his card, they didn't know why it hadn't worked earlier, they hadn't sent him a text (they never send texts) but to be safe they cancelled the card and issued a new one.
It absolutely sickens me to think he could have lost thousands if the scam had been successful. Please, please, please remind your family and friends to never, ever, ever click on links in text messages.
Only once very nearly got scammed, was back when I was in University had just changed my address to my University one and Paypal (or claimed to be Paypal) said they were attempting to verify my details, tried logging in from their link. Contacted Paypal but told me it wasn't them, so just changed the password and email address I was using at the time and password then cancelled everything just to be on the safe side but wasn't ever scammed. Never have been always am dubious, if the bank ever calls me about my bank account I ask to ring them back.
Once got some silly person saying had run out of broadband (on an unlimited account lol) from Openreach, but was saying I've got no contract with Openreach its with my ISP (which I didn't name lol), they just hung up and informed Action Fraud, can't stand them myself at all.
The problem is with least some of the telephone scammers they use spoofed phone numbers, to make say a banking scam or what/whichever to be
legit or from the organisation they claim to be calling from, which really isn't that difficult to do if you have the software to do so (like Bria the virtual phone software, similar to skype but you need a PXB Private Branch eXchange for it to work,allows for extension numbers and voice mail storing that kind of thing).
The thing is companies with legit reasons to do so, spoof them as well as any caller coming from a PBX extension will come up as an unknown caller ID, so they'll legit spoof their either number or in a hospitals NHS trust where I get treated when trying to ring that number an auto message tells to call the dept which rang you lol. So on that note I doubt very much there's much they can really do about it, annoyingly.
Was some documentary showing the flaws of chip and PIN when it first came out, how massively flawed it (why there's now something due to a hack which almost bankrupted the head company of TK Maxx (TJ Maxx) had a huge data breach, PCI compliance and DSS) is scary how easy it is to make an exact copy of someones card and even when using a random PIN number a card reader will accept it, the banks wont admit it or loads of people will end up doing that (though might have been now some kind of fix to stop that from happening as it was years ago.
Had my bank call me once and said I'd call them back (their response was great said that's a really good thing to do essentially) saying my card details had been copied somehow (still have no idea how that was), said they'd locked a payment and did I recognise a payment, said no which I hadn't they cancelled and sent a replacement card.
Once got some silly person saying had run out of broadband (on an unlimited account lol) from Openreach, but was saying I've got no contract with Openreach its with my ISP (which I didn't name lol), they just hung up and informed Action Fraud, can't stand them myself at all.
The problem is with least some of the telephone scammers they use spoofed phone numbers, to make say a banking scam or what/whichever to be
legit or from the organisation they claim to be calling from, which really isn't that difficult to do if you have the software to do so (like Bria the virtual phone software, similar to skype but you need a PXB Private Branch eXchange for it to work,allows for extension numbers and voice mail storing that kind of thing).
The thing is companies with legit reasons to do so, spoof them as well as any caller coming from a PBX extension will come up as an unknown caller ID, so they'll legit spoof their either number or in a hospitals NHS trust where I get treated when trying to ring that number an auto message tells to call the dept which rang you lol. So on that note I doubt very much there's much they can really do about it, annoyingly.
Could have been literally anything, my guess is the network might have been down somewhere down the network (they work on essentially and even the remote ones without cables, use a telephone line network, obviously is encrypted), or could be something wrong with accessing his account somewhere.
Was some documentary showing the flaws of chip and PIN when it first came out, how massively flawed it (why there's now something due to a hack which almost bankrupted the head company of TK Maxx (TJ Maxx) had a huge data breach, PCI compliance and DSS) is scary how easy it is to make an exact copy of someones card and even when using a random PIN number a card reader will accept it, the banks wont admit it or loads of people will end up doing that (though might have been now some kind of fix to stop that from happening as it was years ago.
Had my bank call me once and said I'd call them back (their response was great said that's a really good thing to do essentially) saying my card details had been copied somehow (still have no idea how that was), said they'd locked a payment and did I recognise a payment, said no which I hadn't they cancelled and sent a replacement card.
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