Telephone Scam cost £20k

First class 1d1ot.

Never give anyone who contacts you any details whatsoever.
I've had calls re probs on my computer and my bank wanting to confirm my details.
My son was here and led the computer scammers a merry dance whilst I just told the bank lot where to go.
I never click on a link on an e-mail either, that's any link and not just ones I think are dodgy.

My parents had the same broadband disconnection imminent scam attempted on them. They fell victim to The Gas Board scam, some scoundrels tricking people in to taking out a gas boiler service contract. I did, however, manage to recover their cash for them. Likely that many others have just sucked it up.

I get this sort of call. BT calling because my router has been compromised/hacked and have some files on there.

I always ask them what my BT account is, they reply that they are support not accounts so don't know my account number.

This is the stage where they are told to go away impolitely.

The calls i have had  have always said .....i am calling from(the name of my broadband provider) so obviously some providers have been hacked
Yes Indian accents too

As all have said, better not to get involved but, if you want a laugh, tell them that first they will have to answer some security questions!

I work at a place where we deal with telephone cards, gift cards, itunes cards etc etc. There is a group that calls us every week. Long story short, you get a call telling you to fulfill telephone requests only when someone gives you the pasword. Then they call again and ask you to send them codes or balance, and give you the password.

I have a lot of fun playing stupid, telling them the password is wrong If I have more time, I always give them some made up code.

If they do catch someone stupid, they can easily get up to a thousand bucks out of the person. If you hit a couple of people a month its worth it. hence so many do this.

My mother won the German lottery.  Very excited.
I asked her had she bought a ticket.  No.

I guess they would just dip the account, for perhaps a low amount, and then crank it up bit by bit, until it failed!

Have to ask, who holds £20k, in what must have been, a current account?

Just asking for trouble!

Even the high rollers on here wouldn't do that, but would do what sensible people do, which is to transfer funds between accounts when needed!

What's the source of this sorry tale?

Slightly off topic, I had 450 odd pounds put into an account that I never use and had been meaning to close, I phoned the bank to tell them, they said nothing they can do unless someone comes forward to admit the mistake, thought that was that, never touched or spent it either, next thing I know I'm in the supermarket and my other account/bank card was rejected, phoned the bank and they told me they'd been frozen because someone claimed I had taken their money, I told them to call the police and investigate and they can have anything they want, my transaction history, laptop  etc, they soon realised it must have been a mistake.

Is that some kind of low level scam or a genuine mistake, I don't see how you can transfer money by accident when you need someones sort code and account number unless theyre near identical and the chances of that are huge, would also need the same name as me? confused me anway.

In my last job I logged into the US bank account to find a credit for, if memory serves, a $600,000 payment from Lexington Insurance.  So if you can make mistakes that big  you can make mistakes for smaller sums.

In the legal profession they used to (and prolly still do) not send you the actual tax invoice until you'd paid the bill.  The two were more or less identical and it was very easy to pay these bills twice if you don't have a good system.  Duplicate payments are common enough tbh.  I was once paid 3 times by the same bookie

I had the microsoft computer one which said my computer had been hacked and they needed access to it. I told them that was amazingly good service as I had only reported it faulty half an hour ago. The increasingly excited operator passed the call to his supervisor and I said I just needed to check that it wasn't a scam and could he just tell me the IP address of my computer? He tried eight times with me shouting "oh nearly" telling him he was very close but not quite right before he finally hung up.

I just had one now from a 'bank' who asked if I authorised a payment for $300 for shoes, and when I said I had they said I sent another to Western Union for $1100 which I said I had, and then they said I needed government approval for it. However they hung up when I asked to speak to the PM.

On a similar theme DIE LINKE, some shyster firm from Mumbai or wherever it was (he said his name was Arthur which I wasn't totally convinced about)was ringing about a recent car accident I had, which I hadn't of course. He then went into his spiel to get my "details" and I stopped him in his track and asked which vehicle was it as I have two, one for me and the missus and he declined to give me the number plate of the car in question as it was a matter of data protection