SCAM
This is a genuine scam - NOT A HOAX
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The police have requested that
as many people are alerted as possible. Unfortunately it is a genuine scam. Police report
the reason this is working so well is that it plays on your good will. Picture the scene:
You are sitting at home and there is a knock at the door. On answering it you are
confronted by a respectable looking woman in a suit, who is slightly distressed.
She explains that her car has broken down farther down the road and she needs to contact
her husband to come to come to her aid. Is it at all possible to use your phone to call
him? You allow her to use the phone, but, being the suspicious type, you stand with her as
she makes the call. She dials the number, and asks to be put through to Mr
Smith/Brown/Stevens (whatever). She holds the line for about thirty seconds.
She continues, "In that case can you ask him to leave the meeting for a minute; I
need to speak to him quite urgently." She apologises again and explains they are
getting him out of a meeting. A couple of minutes goes by and she starts to speak to her
husband. She explains the situation to him, tells him what has happened to her car, is
annoyed because she can't now get to her meeting, and asks what she should do now. She
listens for a few seconds and then says "Well as soon as the meeting finishes can you
come to Cardiff Road/Leicester Road/Surrey Street (whatever), where the car has broken
down."
Another few seconds go by, "Okay, I'll see you in about twenty minutes then."
She puts the phone down, and thanks you ever so much for your kind assistance, even
offering you a pound for your trouble. Of course you decline, it's no trouble. She leaves
and everything is fine.....
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OR IS IT?
The day or week before knocking on your door she set up her own premium rate line with a
telephone company at the cost of about £150, and she has dictated that calls to that
number should be charged at £50 per minute. She has dialled the number. The conversation
she has had with her 'husband' is entirely fictitious, there is a pre-recorded voice
message on the other end to give you the impression she is talking to someone.
She has been on the phone for about five minutes so that call just cost you £250 - the
majority of which goes into her pocket, and the first you know about it is when you get
your bill a month later. To rub a bit of slat into the wound, she hasn't even committed a
criminal offence. You've given her permission to use your phone. There have been five
occasions in Luton, which is a little close for comfort, where this has been reported in
the last few weeks.
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| Would anyone reading this please
pass it on to friends and colleagues etc. otherwise it could cost someone a lot of money. |
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