[Misc] Beware of telephone scam - 'BT Openreach'

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

More likely a fake address to be honest.

The address exists that much is true. Possibly not the address of the actual registrant of the web address but it's the kind of brilliantly dumb mistake a "master scammer" might make.

 

[essbee1]

I have had this for the last three days. longest I have kept them waiting is around 18 mins. I pretend to play along but just continue with what I'm doing (usually playing ARK on the xbox)

Everyone should do this. Then these scum will eventually go away.

 

[nordicgod]

I had it the other day , wanted to know how many connections to my router and then go to computer with a piece of paper , that’s when I told him feck off

 

[The Birdman]

Happened to me several times couple of weeks ago I reported it to BT they put a block on my phone to try and stop these types of calls also it was all over HH gossip and Northlands Wood closed residents Facebook I also reported it to the Town Council and District council.
Please put a warning on all social media if you can.
This type of crime is growing so the police need to invest more into fighting cyber crime.

 

[Albion my Albion]

I always play dumb when I get any of these "out of the blue" calls. When they ask me to use the mouse, I tell them I don't have any pets. They usually hang up after this.

In my case it just happens naturally.

"How are you tonight?"

Not too well, just had a bit of diarrhea. (Diarrhea is the condition of having at least three loose or liquid bowel movements each day.)

I've had two loose bowel movements already and I'm waiting to see if I'll have a third.

Ooops, sorry, gotta go!

 

[atfc village]

Had this a few weeks back ,started with a text then got a call asking was my address such and such a Street . Told them it wasn't and then was asked what it was and was i home ,i politely declined and hung up.

 

[Fungus]

Having worked in IT since 1980, I often forget that others of my age (60s) are still novices with PCs and the Internet.

Anyway, a friend of mine mentioned yesterday that she'd been scammed. "I had a phone call from BT, saying there was a problem with my PC". Yes, she let them "do something" so they could access it. "I see you have an account with Lloyds. Please can you log in... okay, we've sorted that. Now Paypal...". And so on for 40 minutes, being passed from the original caller to his supervisor and then his manager, until she finally hung up in a panic, despite being unsure from the start. She's phoned her bank, but now has a £200 bill for "aromatherapy goods" on her Paypal account.

It's difficult to believe there isn't enough publicity from enough sources (banks, police, U3A, TV programmes, friends, magazines) - surely it's just common sense not to trust a cold-caller?

I should also mention that she had helpfully stored all her passwords in an unprotected file called "passwords". A hand-written piece of paper would have been safer.

She won't be caught again, but I thought I'd post this as a reminder.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Last week my wife had a call fom BT saying our broadband had been hacked by the Russians, and she gave them access to her computer to sort it. Half way through she realised this was daft and she turned her computer off and now we have to get it fixed. There's so much spam stuff out there its not surprising that one gets through now and again

 

[Weststander]

To all,

I just received a call from BT Openreach, informing me that my broadband had problems making it slow, then the caller asked me to carry out some initial tests.

Instead I took his number of 00 44 1793 596931.

Immediately the 00 44 flagged up a scam, but googling them, they do have a legit .co.uk website: http://btcustomerservicesnumber.co.uk/ .

The bottom line is that it's a scam. I checked with the real BT, who told me that don't normally call out of the blue at all.

Beware!

I had a follow up call on our landline from these crooks a few weeks back. Which pissed me off as I working in another room and I had to rush to the landline phone, thinking it might be a family emergency.

I don't what came over me , but I launched into a very personal verbal attack, over-shouting the caller, in a loud, rude and aggressive tirade. (I ESTABLISHED IT WAS THE SCAMMERS BEFORE I STARTED!).

I'm never that sort of person, except when joining in aggressive Albion chants! But these scamming tossers deserve it.

 

[Weststander]

In my case it just happens naturally.

"How are you tonight?"

Not too well, just had a bit of diarrhea. (Diarrhea is the condition of having at least three loose or liquid bowel movements each day.)

I've had two loose bowel movements already and I'm waiting to see if I'll have a third.

Ooops, sorry, gotta go!

 

[Trufflehound]

My 93-year-old mother-in-law constantly gets calls from people informing her she has an issue with her broadband internet or that they need access to her PC to fix a problem.

Apparently they sound very convincing. The only slight giveaway is that my mother-in-law has no internet connection, and doesn't own (and has never owned) a PC.

 

[Eeyore]

If they don't ask for you by name and cannot quote your account number then you know straight away.

Even then, if you aren't expecting a call then don't take it.

 

[SUIYHP]

https://youtu.be/0CBL3rS1ZKs

Thought this would make an interesting watch.

 

[Deleted member 22389]

I had one of these a few weeks back. I wasn't having a good day, I lost my rag and said stop calling me from India and told them to FOFF. After I put the phone down, he rang again, then again. I must have had about twenty calls. Each time he called he used a new name, and each time the calls got more abusive with swearing back and forth between us.

Nothing you can do about these calls I'm afraid, they use a UK number now and when you ring back on that number it doesn't exist. Unfortunately there will be people who get conned by these people.

 

[jessiejames]

I always play dumb when I get any of these "out of the blue" calls. When they ask me to use the mouse, I tell them I don't have any pets. They usually hang up after this.

I do this with the Microsoft people who use to ring me, I tell them I'm turning my pc on but it's telling me to press any key, to which I advise that the any key is missing from the keyboard.

 

[Triggaaar]

Another scam to look out for is if a company phones up for business, and they say 'Can you hear me ok?', to which you're meant to say 'Yes'. Apparently, they are recording, and splice in the 'Yes' to a verbal contract for their goods. It's a big scam in the US, coming to the UK so they reckon.

What's the point in them having a contract that you can then ignore and dispute? Recording someone saying yes is not that difficult.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

My 93-year-old mother-in-law constantly gets calls from people informing her she has an issue with her broadband internet or that they need access to her PC to fix a problem.

Apparently they sound very convincing. The only slight giveaway is that my mother-in-law has no internet connection, and doesn't own (and has never owned) a PC.

Haven’t had one of these for ages but used to quite like winding them up, stringing them along, wasting their time - yes we have windows, we look out of them all the time but don’t need any new ones.

I did, however, get an unsolicited email last week. It told me I had logged on to a porno website and they had filmed me via my web cam. They threatened to post it to my contact list if I didn’t pay 3000 bitcoins into an account etc. Scam yes, but somehow they had got hold of a password I have used in the past for non financial websites. That bit got me a bit worried so I passed on the details to the City of London police cyber crime dept. There really are some pieces of work out there.