Have you ever been scammed?

[Loubywoobywoo]

A week or two ago, I got a text saying that there was a problem with my card for my Netflix payment. I went to check my account, and I have already been debited for the month. I check Netflix, no problem logging in, and check my e-mail ( which is jow Netflix communicate with me) and noting there either. Definitely a scam!
I also semi-regularly get texts asking me to pick up a package but need to click on this link to verify collection time. Also a scam!

 

[HowlOwl]

I had an email from the HMRC, it was very well put together and realistic, saying I was due a refund. I reported it to Action Fraud, but it was very convincing.

 

[Melian]

I had an email from the HMRC, it was very well put together and realistic, saying I was due a refund. I reported it to Action Fraud, but it was very convincing.

I've had a few from HMRC that are quite clearly scams - because February 30th doesn't exist!

 

[MeeShellMahBell]

I had an email from the HMRC, it was very well put together and realistic, saying I was due a refund. I reported it to Action Fraud, but it was very convincing.

I get phone calls sometimes telling me that HMRC are sending the police after me.

The scammer on the other end really tries to milk it. "Unless you pay HMRC £2000 today the police will be sent. Now the police are on their way, I have alerted them."
I tell them I'm waiting for the cops, can't see them yet, I'll let you know when they arrive. They usually hang up eventually.

 

[Kate1970]

I get phone calls sometimes telling me that HMRC are sending the police after me.

The scammer on the other end really tries to milk it. "Unless you pay HMRC £2000 today the police will be sent. Now the police are on their way, I have alerted them."
I tell them I'm waiting for the cops, can't see them yet, I'll let you know when they arrive. They usually hang up eventually.

I've had a few calls like this !

 

[MeeShellMahBell]

I've had a few calls like this !

Couldn't you just imagine some people getting very scared and paying up?
It's horrible when I think of it tbh.
I think of my old dad who was sharp as a tack until he reached his mid 70s, if one of these scammers called him back then I could totally see him believing it.

 

[HowlOwl]

Couldn't you just imagine some people getting very scared and paying up?
It's horrible when I think of it tbh.
I think of my old dad who was sharp as a tack until he reached his mid 70s, if one of these scammers called him back then I could totally see him believing it.

We had to change my mum’s landline number because she was so vulnerable. These people are evil parasites.

 

[Elles20]

Years ago I was walking to town for dinner one day and a man was running around in distress. He came up to me saying that he had a call from the hospital who said his pregnant wife had fallen and had to be rushed to A&E. His phone had died so couldn't call anyone and couldn't get an Uber. He asked if I could lend him money to get a black cab. He gave me his phone number and address so I could contact him later. Then I gave him some money.

I found out it was a scam very shortly after when he left and another guy came up to me to ask me whether he just asked for money. He said he did the same thing to him weeks before!

 

[JoeBloggs]

I had fraud on my credit card a few weeks ago, Amazon Kindle subscription or something. It was cancelled and refunded and I got a new card. The day my card arrived it happened again but on my husbands card. He has never even taken his card off the paper it was sent on let alone used it, but I guess they were linked but scary how they got the details. My mum used to work for a bank and was convinced it was an inside job.

 

[Flowergirl123]

Couldn't you just imagine some people getting very scared and paying up?
It's horrible when I think of it tbh.
I think of my old dad who was sharp as a tack until he reached his mid 70s, if one of these scammers called him back then I could totally see him believing it.

I had a friend in the US who fell for this a few years ago - she was in her 30s at the time. When she told me the story, she was really embarrassed because she ended up paying them over $3,000 - it had all the classic hallmarks of a scam, threatening the police, being on the phone for hours to her, telling her to go to CVS and buy visa and Mastercard gift cards and read out the numbers to them.

I couldn’t believe she had fallen for it, but she said the phone call started legit, they sounded like they knew her situation and she was afraid of getting into trouble with the IRS. They kept on to her for hours and in the end, she paid up because she was so frightened. She knew after that it was a scam and reported the episode to the police but they couldn’t do anything and just advised her not to pay out again, they’d never come for her at her house for tax issues like the scammers said.

You’d be surprised how many people fall for things like this and then don’t share because they are embarrassed to have been fooled.

 

[hol20x]

I’ve had phone calls from foreign men telling me my national insurance number will be suspended if I don’t pay HMRC £1,000 plus. Happy days, if it gets suspended I can’t pay tax.

 

[JoeBloggs]

We also used to get those classic ‘we need to log onto your computer’ I like to keep them on the phone playing dim with my banana computer

 

[MeeShellMahBell]

We also used to get those classic ‘we need to log onto your computer’ I like to keep them on the phone playing dim with my banana computer

When I had a landline I'd get that almost weekly.
I loved Messing with them.

I told.one guy the computer was in the other room and the land line was connected to the wall. So he'd tell me to do something and I'd have to go into the other room, do it, come back and tell him I'd done it... He put up with it for what seemed like ages..

 

[Scorpihoe]

I sold something on gumtree and the guy transferred me the money over PayPal. After I sent out the item to him, he claimed the money back. I was so pissed, I used his email to track down his Instagram (he was just a teenager lol), found his mum and sister and threatened to tell them. He got so scared and transferred the money back via friends and family

 

[katiesmith81]

We also used to get those classic ‘we need to log onto your computer’ I like to keep them on the phone playing dim with my banana computer

I fancied for once just messing around with them and behave a bit like Victor Meldrew haha, when he calls in that computer expert and puts on the cheque how he really feels about him haha