Bourkey Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 This is from a partner in the law firm i work for.The new telephone 'scam' has arrived. I received a call from a 'representative' of BT, informing me that he was disconnecting me because of an unpaid bill. He demanded payment immediately of £31.00 , or it would be £118.00 to re-connect at a later date. The guy wasn't even fazed when I told him I was with Virgin Media, allegedly VM have to pay BT a percentage for line rental! I asked the guy's name - the very 'English' John Peacock with a very 'African' accent - & phone number - 0800 0800 152. Obviously the fella realised I wasn't believing his story, so offered to demonstrate that he was from BT. I asked how & he told me to hang up & try ' phoning someone - he would disconnect my ' phone to prevent this. AND HE DID !! My ' phone was dead - no engaged tone, nothing - until he ' phoned me again. Very pleased with himself, he asked if that was enough proof that he was with BT. I asked how the payment was to be made & he said credit card, there & then. I said that I didn't know how he'd done it, but I had absolutely no intention of paying him , I didn't believe his name or that he worked for BT. He hung up. Did 1471 & ' phoned his fictitious 0800 number - not recognised. I ' phoned the police to let them know , I wasn't the first! It's only just started apparently but it is escalating. Their advice was to let as many people know by word of mouth of this scam. The fact that the ' phone does go off would probably convince some people it's real, so please make as many friends & family as possible aware of this. This is good but not that clever. He gave the wrong number - it should have been 0800 800152 which takes you through to BT Business. The cutting off of the line is very simple , he stays on the line with the mute button on and you can't dial out - but he can hear you trying ( this is because the person who initates a call is the one to terminate it). When you stop trying he cuts off and immediately calls back. You could almost be convinced! The sad thing is that it is so simple that it will certainly fool the elderly and vulnerable. Please pass this on to friends and family and be on your guard. Bourkey Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DavidAshton Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Thats a clever one I like it, these scammers are geting creative now. Thanks for the heads up! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dan_SV Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 hopefully word will get round fast enough to prevent them from being too succesfull with their scams. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CRaZyKiD Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 I guess we are lucky here to have people telling us of scams, however, unfortuante for the people who have been had already. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
junior_G Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 I work for BT peeps and believe our security are aware of this one but you would not believe the amount of these scams that happen that mention the company.. between ballsy phone calls to customers or randoms peeps or generic emails, all asking for card details.. if we needed to call our customers we have an extensive validation process to show are authorization before asking for any pymt.. anyways you would get the red letter well before the phone call unless you ran up a huge amount ringin wank lines and we make you aware you ran up a good bit in one night ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sparky Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ste91 Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 I'd love them to try the scam on this bloke: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sparky Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 thats awsome love seeing that Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EP91Bon Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Nob end scammers :/ But ste91 good video haha made me smile Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bucketep91 Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 20 mins after reading this i got a fnecall from bt and ended up with a big argument and it was a genuine call lol oops....cant be too carefull though Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sparky Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ste91 Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 LOL @ bucketI hope they recorded it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Steve GT Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 haha i love playing games with calls from companies my favourite is the vodaphone game they ring me up saying is this mister fairhurst, i say yeh, they say is this a good time, i say no, they say can we ring you back in a few days, i say yeh put the phone down. a few days later they ring back and i do the whole thing all over again lol my record is 3 weeks and still not talking to them loland at the scammers they are total gimps but to a lot of people they seems convincing so cheers for the heads up dude lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
J25GTi Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 When people like that ring me and ask to talk to Mr. White, i just tell them hes dead, and that im his grieving son and that they have no heart ringing and chasing him,usually after the wards - He's dead they hang up haha i love playing games with calls from companies my favourite is the vodaphone game they ring me up saying is this mister fairhurst, i say yeh, they say is this a good time, i say no, they say can we ring you back in a few days, i say yeh put the phone down. a few days later they ring back and i do the whole thing all over again lol my record is 3 weeks and still not talking to them loland at the scammers they are total gimps but to a lot of people they seems convincing so cheers for the heads up dude lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Steve GT Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 haha thats an awesome idea im going to do that with bt there pains in the arses for ringing up lately lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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