Always (and I stress always) treat texts, emails and phone calls etc as scams... even if you bank with the "supposed" bank, institution etc ... if they do not address you by name and include the last 4 digits of the account in the message ITS A SCAMMER ...Paul Waine wrote: ↑Mon Sep 28, 2020 5:10 pmJust rec'd sms on my android: Need to verify Halifax-APP. Click here (or similar wording).
I don't bank with Halifax. I don't have Halifax mobile app on my phone. So, I've deleted the sms.
Posted just in case you or your family/friends do use Halifax bank app.
It seems there's always someone who gets scammed - otherwise these scammers wouldn't keep trying to scam people.
Stay Safe.
They're popular, I must've had at least eight or nine emails and texts purporting to be from HMRC since April; I don't recall all the senders, but I'm was pretty certain that HMRC don't do business via hotmail addresses.
I've had that one several times. Plus the Amazon renewal, or the £600 has been transferred abroad from you Visa or Mastercard account, you'd think the bank would know which card I owned.
yes, indeed. the Windows Technical Team... Oh how we've had fun with those types. I work in tech support with a varied team of people of ranging capabilities... including a part time ethical hacker (actually our Network Security chap). That time we had control of his machine was pricelessgawthorpe_view wrote: ↑Tue Sep 29, 2020 8:56 amI've had that one several times. Plus the Amazon renewal, or the £600 has been transferred abroad from you Visa or Mastercard account, you'd think the bank would know which card I owned.
And the now classic Windows technical team...
Got this from my Bank warning me this week about that very scam... (and others)NottsClaret wrote: ↑Fri Dec 11, 2020 9:13 amThere's one from (fake) DPD worth being aware of. Says you've missed a parcel delivery, follow a link to rearrange delivery and pay £4 postage. Getting lots of people pre-Christmas. Pretty clever really, albeit in a scummy way.
I still use my old business email acc ************@live.co.uk & I keep getting emails about invoices etc payments etc so I just consign everything to Block/Phishing scams box and hit delete
...Just had exactly the same one Steve. I'm not with Nationwide, looks like
Funkydrummer wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 4:03 pmJust had exactly the same one Steve. I'm not with Nationwide, looks like
Mr R Davies is making a few quid on the quiet.
Bloody Kinks, really !!!!!!!!!
it is a while since he had a hit!We get those but it tends to be an automated callCaptJohn wrote: ↑Thu Feb 11, 2021 4:21 pmI regularly get a call from my credit card provider telling me that a large overseas payment has just been made on my card and to press 1 on my handset to check on it. I never press 1 and usually sing a bar from "Alice's Restaurant" (Arlo Guthrie) to the handset before they get the message and hang up. A good whistle by the phone is also handy. Give it a good blast close to the handset and it will make sure the tw@t on the other end gets the message, direct to their eardrum.