Another scam

[SamsarandaParticipant @samsaranda]

Plasma, possibly it was a repo, someone forgot to make their repayments?

Dave W

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

Discussing something else with my Bank, yesterday, I was told that if you receive a nuisance / scam call; hang up and dial 1572. Apparently that will block that number from bothering you again.

Have yet to try it to find out if it works.

Possibly may work for "spoof" UK numbers, but maybe not for "withheld" or overseas. We shall see!

Howard

[Clive Brown 1Participant @clivebrown1]

The 1572 Blacklist is part of the BT Call Protect system which you need to have. Works for most spam calls AFAIK if you so choose.

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

Another TVP video, actor again but based on true cases.

TVP Video 2

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

I threw out another "I'm from Microsoft and you computer's reported a fault" call recently. That was unexpected because I have had none of those for a long time.

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Complaints here about the inertia and complacency of the ICO, but I've little confidence in Action Fraud, too.

You never hear back from it if you make a report, but that might be concerned with security so I can accept that.

My beef with it is that is very awkward and long-winded to use, and is clearly a database of classic form. I.e, written by someone brilliant at writing extremely complicated software while lacking the imagination or initiative to consider the user, and to realise that set menus of a few random questions immediately limits the system's scope.

You might expect it to accept forwarded e-mails for analysis… No! That's too obvious for the Access-jockeys to spot!

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