Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,247
#1
There is a massive increase in junk phone calls and being TPS registered seems not to matter.
We have been plagued by automated calls, texts and so on from PPI claims companies (or criminals claiming to be these).
Usually when I answer the phone and it is not a person immediately speaking to me on the end of the phone I just hang up. This morning though I had a call and the word pension was mentioned just before I hung up so I listened.
This automated call was telling that their records show that I qualify for a £1,000 bonus on my pension and to press 5 to find out more.
Naturally I did not press 5 and doing so may have cost me a lot of money if I had.
This is an out and out lie.
I can say this categorically as I, being a financial adviser, arrange and manage my own pension I know for a fact that there is no such bonus and this call is no more than an out and out fraud.
Beware - this can only be a criminal and if you get such a call do not press 5.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#2
same here barry, the slightest pause and i hang up immediately.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
- Posts: 6,950
#3
Ditto.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#4
And me, our PPI calls have almost stopped once his mother said her son was a lawyer.
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Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
- Posts: 1,418
#5
Another scam to be aware of is the practice of aspirant politicians knocking on one's front door and making promises they know they stand no chance of keeping. It happened to me some years ago when a former cabinet minister cold called me by knocking on my front door canvassing for a local election. I asked him a question about his attitude to his party's environmental policies. He told me that he was extremely sceptical of the claims made by some who believed that carbon dioxide heralded a threat to humanity.
Since then he has voted yes to virtually every single environmental policy put forward by this and the last administration.
True story that.
It's not just cold calling phoning we have to be on our guard for.