Had 3 BT scam calls this week be aware

My elderly mum received a telephone call last week claiming her entire bank balance had just been withdrawn and to call a helpline number if she believed it was a fraudulent transaction.

Now, the fact is that my mum, like a lot of older folks, gets quite confused these days and believed this ****. Thankfully, she phoned me before returning the scanmer’s call and I checked online to reassure her that nothing in her account had been touched. Damn, it pissed me off! Here’s the really troublesome aspect though, ladies and gentlemen, the **** on the phone knew my mum’s account balance to within £100. The bank and police suggest it was a lucky guess but I ain’t buying that for one second. Natwest must have had its security breached in my view.

Absolute scumbags without doubt it's info from a hack or insiders passing it on they target the potentially vulnerable,my mother has had 2 episodes and my dad 1 they didn't give info out it was obtained in other ways fortunately no real damage done.
My auntie who is fairly wealthy is currently being targeted she's 83/84 and my uncle died in May hence the interest in her all of a sudden there's some complete shyte about.

new my mum’s account balance to within £100. The bank and police suggest it was a lucky guess but I ain’t buying that for one second. Natwest must have had its security breached in my view.

Not that they would Admit that poker

I get a recorded message, woman with an american accent, advising that my internet has been hacked/compromised etc. At the start of the call they just say 'this is your internet service provider' so covering all bases.

I just hang up.

Now call me a bore(and im sure you will) but hacking and this type of thing will be made sooo much easier with 5G, just a minor detail with the woes of ****g 5G

You're just making stuff up again, terry.  5G is no more susceptible to hacking than any other form of wireless communication.

if any of these clowns phone just put the phone down very rarely do organisations phone people directly , they usually write to people , most of these people phoning are international criminal gangsters

International indeed, either from the Asia subcontinent or Eastern European most probably Russian. I remember clearly my brother-in-law would shout at them, and tell them to f*** off! And, he was an IT editor/journalist for a national broadsheet. To these nationals fraud is a painless and victimless crime as the victims will be financially reimbursed eventually.

I guess we all have had these annoying tw@ts and yes, for the ones who are streetwise, we know how to deal with it, but
they will hit a fair few vulnerable people (if only 10%) to make it worthwhile....

At one point I stopped answering my home phone, let the call end (often ringing for a long time, which is a pointer to it being malicious)
then 1471, and put the number into Google, which often shows a history of experience of others.

A fair number are "number withheld" which you can assume were spam.

Latest strategy is to pick up the phone, but don't speak, as more often than not it's a silent call!
If they do speak, it is likely to be someone saying "hello" repeatedly and in a foreign accent.

Hang up and check 1471 to verify, and then dial 1572, and follow simple instructions, and the number will immediately be blocked!

I was getting, at the very least, a couple of calls a day, and haven't had one now, for several weeks.

The thing is that, if it is from a legitimate institution, and of any importance,they will contact you by other means....

There's a guy called Jim Browning on youtube that has posted loads of videos on these mainly Indian scammers.

I get one where the automated caller claims to be from bt forwarding an sms message.

Im not with bt so i hang up.

Eperts have been warning about hacking problems and 5G for months now dave, and they do into it in great detail, as for "making things up" what a nice person you must be,but fire away,what have I made up?

Eperts and experts 2*

Here you are dave,a little read and who knows you might learn something!? "Security Alert; Experts warn about major flaws in 4g and 5g networks that lets anyone SEND FAKE MESSAGES,or trace your location.

So nothing specifically to do with 5G then? Just wireless?

I repeat, 5G is no more susceptible to hacking than any other form of wireless communication.

If you show me an expert who says otherwise, I'll show you an idiot.

If you (or your experts) are referring to new untested hardware/software then that may or may not be an issue.  There are security holes found in all new hardware and these are removed over time.

There are traps all over the place.  I just bought a new android tv box that had an app called mobdro installed that streams tv.  When I updated it I realised that it was attempting do get up to all sorts of nonsense - prob bitcoin mining.

This is the bt scam exposed by Jim Browning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5X9ZSXb7xI

Read and learn dave,im no experts so don't ask me, but as you knew if my post was correct and it seems highly likely that it was, its  an OUTRAGE that someone can say its a lie fully knowing people Will be pleagued by this problem,which Will be made worse by 5G as you well know,but then YOU ARE A TROLL and would say the total opposite to the truth.

I know its completely useless to ask you this but what exactly makes 5G easier to hack than 4G?

Is it the higher speed or the greater number of antennas exposed?
Maybe its easier to hack many tiny antennas compared to a big tower?

Jul 13, 2019 -- 11:44AM, terry mccann wrote:

Read and learn dave,im no experts so don't ask me, but as you knew if my post was correct and it seems highly likely that it was, its

Stick with Trump Dave as somebody there might give a sh1t what you say

Terry you said "hacking and this type of thing will be made sooo much easier with 5G"

I said "5G is no more susceptible to hacking than any other form of wireless communication."

You gave out your usual insult and then said "Experts warn about major flaws in 4g and 5g networks"

In other words your example confirmed my post.

But the point of your intervention on this thread was in any case just to moan about 5G (which I thought was meant to kill us all and not hack us).

And there I was thinking that's the reason the yanks didn't want that Chinese company doing   5G,Trump was worried about the security, so I guess you were right after all tiny dave dave you need an oil change.

I've been blocking these calls for months, but they always return using a different number.

So now I either hang up straight away or take them for a ride until they hang up in frustration.

I like the Accident chasers the best.

I tell them I had an accident and I would be interested in suing for compensation then I relate the incident where I had a bad pint at the pub and in the morning I farted and liquid came out. Then I have to try and stop laughing

usually I am quite polite ask them what they want and tell them that's interesting then rest the phone on a table and let them talk themselves out. The realisation that they have been talking to themselves for 30 seconds stops them calling back and also delays them bugging someone else.

i liked it when there was a person there not automated call.

tell them i'm switching the computer on, and ask them to wait, ...

Keep them talking until you claim you have got your computer switched on then when they say they need access to it ask them just to confirm the IP address for it that BT have. It's good fun saying Ooh nearly! five or six times before they give in.

"The one today was an English male speaking saying that my ip address had been compromised and the internet was going to be turned off."
Had pretty much this the other week.

These people are low life b*stards as the people they'll get are old people and slow people and I'm sure they know this.

Can I ask, why are we handing aid to India when they have a nuclear weapons program and they have heaps of these call centres doing this remotely to the UK and they don't seem particularly interested in doing anything about stopping it unless leaned on?

Ah, the accident one! Had one of them going for a good twenty minutes or so after I told them I had crashed into another vehicle at night. When I say I am registered blind but can still see ok at night as long as there are not many cars on the road they get suspicious. When I tell them it was a police car that ran into me they usually catch on.

FFS is there ANYTHING Private (I demoted him) Tin Foil won't turn into a conspiracy theory or some clueless nonsense about 5G doom?

I try to impersonate a deaf old man when they call, stringing them along and constantly asking them to repeat themselves.

if you get someone who wants to take over the computer, they give you a www internet address  to type in.... I always repeat it back to them as "uu uu uu" it drives them mad

It's the older people that I feel desperately sorry for that get sucked in by this filth.

I have been congratulating bt for five years because they said I was protected from scams, and it was true I didn't have any.  But like Denzil I have had about three scam calls recently all saying they were bt and that my broadband was being disconnected for my 'security' !!

Ask them if you can speak to Buzby.

They can't protect you from all scams as they can keep changing their numbers, and with the internet they can get UK looking numbers that are connected to Voice-Over-IP (Internet) and speak to you from e.g. India with it. Mostly though they are foreign, either my phone says INTERNATIONAL or has a foreign looking number.

I know 2 people that've been led on by scammers and I despise them so much. One person was only stopped from losing a heap of money as the bank thought it suspicious and stopped the money leaving.

In addition to things like pretending they are your ISP, Microsoft, HMRC etc, I see there is now a huge rise in people pretending to be to do with benefits for the government.

How many of these are in countries doing little to nothing to try and stop it? Do they see it as income into their economy or somethig?

They told me my internet was going off. I just said, ok, go on then, switch it off. I knew they wouldn't because if they could they would already be on prime time bbc with their magic show.

Simple thinking can help you avoid those pathetic scamming bstards.

I tell them my names Terry and that I want to warn them of the dangers of 5G. They hang up immediately.

Apparently in India they've now chemtrail scented incense sticks. True story.

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Still laughing akabula

Sorry, terry if you are reading this thread, but it was funny.

Love the way you guys laugh in the face of danger

5G will kill these scammers that steal people's money. This is why I love 5G. People think its about the speeds only but there's much more to it.

So looking at it logically, 5G prevents phone scamming. This is an obvious truth!
Same way as chemtrails prevent terrorism, as is eloquently described here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95Hpix8O9Qs

Not to mention with a post 5G population of half a million only, it won't be too hard to find any scammer that survives.

Well here's a bonus result.....

First call for three weeks.......03451128876

BT Telesales, where some have been under continual siege for months!

It felt good to block that one....