Yet another scam

[Grindstone CowboyParticipant @grindstonecowboy]

iCloud Plus is apparently a new feature being rolled out to existing iCloud subscribers, so I would think the email is genuine.

Regarding your new "name", I suspect you haven't supplied them with your forename when signing up. Or they just didn't test their mailing list code properly.

Rob

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Beware that it is no extra charge at present but when it comes to the next phase you will be deemed to want the extra facility at the extra charge.
A few years ago one of my clubs was caught out by 'free' features we didn't want or use from the website provider. Then the following year they deemed them accepted as extras and very underhandedly charged for only 6 months at almost double the rate so the bill looked the same.

[SamsarandaParticipant @samsaranda]

My hearing is very bad and when I get someone from the Indian subcontinent on the phone I really struggle to understand what they are saying, this makes it very difficult to have fun and string them along , which I would very much like to indulge in. 😇 Dave W

[ZanParticipant @zan]

Try this

I’m an old man and my son is a financial adviser and he doesn’t let me use the computer

its compromised you need to switch it on

how do I do that?

press the button

which one?
the one on the base unit

whats a base unit?
etc etc for about so mins

then. Change voice from old man

WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TROUBLING MY DAD HES 92 AND HAS NEVER USED A COMPUTER. ….etc etc

great fun if you have half an hour to waste…..

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Not worth starting a new thread, but my latest purports to be from E.ON

”E.ON Our system indicates that an error in our billing procedures has led to an overcharge on your latest payment to us. “

The sender is identified as : info@asatomo.com

So presumably that account has been hijacked

Beware

MichaelG.

[the artfull-codgerParticipant @theartfull-codger]

They must be doing the rounds Michael, as I got the same one last week & as we're with Eon, it looked pretty convincing the coloured logo but not quite right, I just reported it as phishing, especially as the meter man had just been round a few days previously.

[John Paton 1Participant @johnpaton1]

1. Not so sure Artful  and Michael – my 95 year old mother had a meter reader call, no uniform, no ID offered and no COVID introduction / precautions. He didn’t have a clue where the meters were and could not apparently recognise the gas meter box by the front door. She did let him in and he had a good look around including at the boiler in the utility room.

Mother has a smart meter and prior to that I took all her readings for her so we smelt a rat and reported the event to the police and the supply company. The company had on their records that she was elderly / hard of hearing and that I submitted her meter readings and managed communications on her behalf.

It took nearly a week to investigate but turned out it was their meter reader, they agreed a reading was not necessary and undertook to terminate the meter reading arrangement (which did not exist before we had a smart meter installed)

Two weeks later we got another letter saying they needed to take a meter reading and had tried unsuccessfully several times recently.

The next week another letter arrived to say the supply company had folded.

You couldn’t make it up but with activity like that it is easy for scammers to look more credible than the real thing!

John

Edited By John Paton 1 on 28/10/2021 20:31:30

Edited By John Paton 1 on 28/10/2021 20:32:05

[Grindstone CowboyParticipant @grindstonecowboy]

Just had a call from a (purported) Manchester number, with a lady saying she was from the Technical Dept of Microsoft calling about my computer problem. Preparing for a long wind-up session, I replied eagerly "Oh yes, that's interesting", and she put the phone down.

They just don't want to play any more

Rob

[Gary WoodingParticipant @garywooding25363]

I got one as a text from…

07305 110500

Santander: Your mobile banking has been set up on a new device at 16:16.

If this was not you, visit:

https://santander.reset-details.com

I don't have a Santander account. I showed it to somebody in the local branch. They were totally disinterested, all they said was "It's a scam".

[J HancockParticipant @jhancock95746]

Not easy to find , but for Santander report scams to smishing@santander.co.uk

[Gary WoodingParticipant @garywooding25363]

Posted by J Hancock on 30/10/2021 12:52:24:

Not easy to find , but for Santander report scams to smishing@santander.co.uk

I did, and got the following response…

Message blocked

Your message to smishing@santander.co.uk has been blocked. See technical details below for more information.

LEARN MORE

[J HancockParticipant @jhancock95746]

No trouble when I sent it two weeks ago OR when I 'forwarded ' it again today to check !

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

Posted by J Hancock on 30/10/2021 12:52:24:

Not easy to find , but for Santander report scams to smishing@santander.co.uk

Doubt if anyone read's them it's there to look good as Gary said they are not interested

H

[Grindstone CowboyParticipant @grindstonecowboy]

You can forward scam text messages to 7726, they then reply and ask for the number that sent it to you. It's a service set up by the major mobile phone providers to try and combat the problem.

Rob

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

I presume that most forum members are aware that Martin Lewis is one of the commentators who are most ‘spoofed’ by scammers … but I thought it worth mentioning the eMail address from which this message [apparently] originates:

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test4inbox looks a bit of a giveaway regarding their modus operandi

… ‘Block Sender’ is the obvious first step.

MichaelG.

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