John Buckley
- Registered: 6 Oct 2013
- Posts: 615
How to scam the scammers!
Guest 3940- Registered: 8 Dec 2020
- Posts: 7
Don't ever reply them and also never click any url provided by them
Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,934
Yet another scam doing the rounds:
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Do nothing and nothing happens.
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,008
Which on the above:
https://conversation.which.co.uk/scams/scam-nhs-covid-vaccine-text-message/
Part of the problem is that poor use of English is so widespread in this country now, even on 'official' communications, that we can no longer take bad spelling and grammar as a clue to the presence of a scam.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Guest 3925- Registered: 28 Nov 2020
- Posts: 541
I never answer a phone call from a withheld number, never answer a call from a number I don't recognise, delete any email I'm not expecting without opening.
Probably why I have no friends
If you are never too sure, stick the number or email into Google and 99% of the time, someone will tell you exactly what sort of scam it is
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,008
AndyPol wrote:...delete any email I'm not expecting without opening...
Best block the domain, or they'll keep sending; unless it's a regular one (e.g. hotmail), in which case block the whole address. Alternatively, block everything and set up a list of safe addresses.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Guest 4064- Registered: 10 Feb 2021
- Posts: 8
I hate these! It's when they make them look all professional to try and trick you - so dishonest!
Ready to embrace life!
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,008
Dastardly. Give me a good honest amateur fleecing any day.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,235
Can you spot the scam?
I guess we'll not be seeing Cherry Ripe in the UK anytime soon
Arte et Marte
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,746
Cherry ripe is made by Cadburys Australia and sold mainly there and in New Zealand.
TheThinWhiteDuke- Registered: 7 Jul 2016
- Posts: 346
I was approached in Morrisons car park the other day with an absolute classic.
Bloke claims to be a salesman and has accidentally been given surplus stock.
It's usually watches, but could work with anything I guess. Bloke shows you an advert in a respectable magazine saying said watches retail for £200, but he, "...can let you have one for £50".
So how are they scamming you?
They took out the advert in the magazine and they bought a ton of these watches for about a tenner each. This is the only way they sell them. By running this scam.
I walked away as soon as he got to, "... I have some surplus stock", after he had previously claimed to have stopped me to ask for directions.
The previous time this was tried on me, I asked for them to accompany me to a jewellers to get the watch valued and they suddenly decided they didn't have the time to deal with me.
I first learnt about this from That's Life, so that's at least how old this scam is.
R55 DRE was the number plate. Black. BMW I think (it's nearly always a BMW).
Andy B- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,746
The scam with the watches is quite common.When events are allowed they will often tell you they have just returned from a trade event and often have some of the stock hidden under the car bonnet usually behind the battery due to the high value of the goods,which are always crap,seen it so many times,often in motorway service car parks.There was one in Dover a few years back selling high quality italian leather jackets,i asked to test the quality of the leather with my lighter before i purchased,could see it was just pvc,the salesman left rather quickly.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,865
Blocking unknown phone calls numbers is what I do
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Guest 3706- Registered: 21 Jul 2020
- Posts: 126
So far this year I've had a covid grant, tax refund and 43 million from a Nigerian fella, enough to buy a Harbour Arm.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,865
We could have been so rich lol
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,819
I keep getting the Amazon phone one at the moment but they now want a lot more than the old £79 or whatever it was.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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