• DIANA W @DianaW Dalston - updated 2y

    Novel scam calls

    Staying ex-directory and registered with the Telephone Preference Service mostly keeps away scam callers, except those using foreign 'phone banks beyond the ICO's reach, but I had a tiresome new variety of caller today.
    She sounded English, rang my home landline number and used my correct title and surname, which is unheard of. (Spam callers mostly misaddress me by a first name that I don't use, which is an invaluable tell-tale.) And the call came from an unhidden London exchange number, also not at all usual.
    The reverse lookup records a lot of previous reports about unsolicited calls from that number, as follows:
    "💡 The overall rating for telephone number 020 3154 6770 is Negative. There have been 3,372 phone lookups and 107 comments relating to this number. On this page: 12 Users rated it as Dangerous, 6 Users rated it as Harassing and 2 Users rated it as Unknown.
    The summary of detected keywords found in the reports is as follow: scam (12 times), lottery (9 times), bank (5 times), spam (1 time), credit card (1 time)"

    Fortunately, I've never played a lottery in my life, so being told that the caller was "from the Lottery Department" didn't sound right. And she broke off the call when I asked where she'd got my name and number from, since I've never played any lottery.

    So don't be fooled into believing that you've won the lottery if a civilised-sounding English stranger rings your home number and addresses you by your correct name. It's just yet another scam, although I didn't wait long enough to find out exactly what they wanted.

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