Two telephone scam calls in one morning!
I am clearly popular.
Took a call from a chap obviously working from a script as he could not cope with questions !!! - but easy to wind him up.....
His “brief” was to tell us that the loft insulation we have could make Covid-19 infection worse.
“Really? - tell me more....”
So he did but got easily flummoxed with simple sensible questions. In the end I could not stop laughing and he got angry enough to put the phone down.
Then - 20 min later, an automated voice rang to say that it was a call from VISA to inform me that £600 had been paid out of my account to a foreign country and that I must “press 1 to be connected to a member of the security team”. I just hung on until they disconnected. Waste as much of their time as possible.
I’ve heard of this one before but did check my balances. No issue at all.
A neighbour last week took a call from a lady who said she was from the “Governments COVID-19 check and trace scheme and that they had come up on the system and so needed to purchase a COVID-19 test kit.
I am sure most of us can easily see right through this nonsense - but some are more vulnerable and could be taken in.
I suggest we check on and warn anyone we know like this to stop these bar stewards in their tracks.
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