Phone Number Scam on the Rise
Once every so often there seems to be a new telephone scam pop up, the most recent however has made BT give the public a global warning. The scammers basically call the potential victims and state to them that they are working from British Telecom, they then state to them that their account has gone into arrears and ask for bank details to settle the account, before they get cut off.
People are a lot cleverer these days and would not fall for such a conjuration as they ask for identification. But what the scammers then do or say is that we will cut off your phone, the victim then shuts the phone and the scammer keeps his end of the line open so it seems as though the phone is not working. A person who has experience the scam first hand states “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 initiates a call is the one to terminate it). “When you then stop trying, he hangs up the phone and calls back immediatley. You could almost be convinced.”
These scams should never be fallen for and there are a few tips which BT have said that you should forever do. A BT representative should always give you an employee number and never refuse to do so. They should also give you an 0800 free phone number to call them back on.
There is still a vast amount of people that fall for this trick, simply because they are probably very kind hearted and would never think that anyone would do anything like this to them.
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