dogmc Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 the fruit machine one was kinda done on "the real hustle" but they didnt use a previously bought machine, they simply waited till the bar was empty on a quiet afternoon i.e only the barstaff no gaffer, walk in wearing overalls etc, claim they are here to swap the puggy's over, if the barstaff doesnt believe them they simply phone their "office" from their phone, and hand it to the barstaff quite brazen and worked a charm, out they go with a full puggy and simply f**k off elsewhere, they done it with a van full of band equipment as well, got jess to pretend she was the pubs liaison person or something like that and they would keep the equipment safe in the van until it was time to set it up, band would show up to set up to find no van, no jess, no equipment Are fruit machine companies not traditionally owned by umm....robust businessmen who would not look kindly on their equipment being lifted as well as the takings? ? Its a decent money laundering strategy so it would take someone very ballsy or stupid to try it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
54_and_counting Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 Are fruit machine companies not traditionally owned by umm....robust businessmen who would not look kindly on their equipment being lifted as well as the takings? ? Its a decent money laundering strategy so it would take someone very ballsy or stupid to try it. Probably, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 I don’t have a Netflix account and I don’t think this scammer had thought things through so wasn’t expecting me to ring them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 I don’t have a Netflix account and I don’t think this scammer had thought things through so wasn’t expecting me to ring them. Did they answer? I texted one back the other day but got no response.I was looking for "tech support" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 1 hour ago, Bairnardo said: Did they answer? I texted one back the other day but got no response. I was looking for "tech support" Hung up then blocked me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bernardblack Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 I got the “HMRC bill hasn’t been paid so the bailiffs are coming if you don’t press 1” call.I work in cyber security 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parsforlife Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 1 minute ago, bernardblack said: I got the “HMRC bill hasn’t been paid so the bailiffs are coming if you don’t press 1” call. I work in cyber security Press 1 ffs. The number of times I forget to pay HMRC and avoid the bailiffs turning up by being contacted by an anonymous white knight is ridiculous, think god for them, never take a penny either. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 6 minutes ago, bernardblack said: I got the “HMRC bill hasn’t been paid so the bailiffs are coming if you don’t press 1” call. I work in cyber security 2 minutes ago, parsforlife said: Press 1 ffs. The number of times I forget to pay HMRC and avoid the bailiffs turning up by being contacted by an anonymous white knight is ridiculous, think god for them, never take a penny either. I'm getting phonecalls that aren't even from a company I just answer the call to be greeted with "Hello, you have a message. Please press 1 to hear the message" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 Seems legit. Especially "taxs". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 50 minutes ago, bernardblack said: I got the “HMRC bill hasn’t been paid so the bailiffs are coming if you don’t press 1” call. I work in cyber security If only Rangers had pressed 1.... 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 If any bailiff turned up to my door they'd be told to f**k off We have Sheriff Officers in Scotland. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 3 hours ago, Bairnardo said: If only Rangers had pressed 1.... Hamilton Accies did.... 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 I've had a lot more of these "press 1 to avoid bad things" calls lately. Presumably the scammers have been preparing themselves since last lockdown and now they're making hay while the sun shines/targets are home on lockdown. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 Looks like I've got my vaccine. NHS and Citroën working their magic for me. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 I was reading that the reason they put in typos, bad grammar and so on in these things isn't necessarily down to foreign origin or lack of attention to detail but rather down to the fact that the kind of people they'll get the best results out of are those who don't notice such things...they're effectively screening out the 95+% who will correctly identify it as a scam. I seem to be getting a lot of scam traffic pertaining to my (non-existent) Amazon Prime account at the moment... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 54 minutes ago, Mr. Alli said: Looks like I've got my vaccine. NHS and Citroën working their magic for me. Pleased to read you HAV EBEEN selected. Good to know despite these challenging times©, someone at the NHS IS TAKING THE TIME TO STUDY THE GENETICS OF DUNDE POSTERS ON P&B. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sortmeout Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 On 13/01/2016 at 12:21, Romeo said: Start up a football forum site and when it gets very popular flood the site with annoying pop adverts and video's that play automatically. Then inform anyone who complains that they can pay a tenner to get rid of these adverts, hey presto...luxury holidays, jacuzzi's, Bollinger and supermodels. ..!! The thing I always love about the support part of the forum (and I know it’s not unique to here and every IT guy reading this will be banging their head on a wall) is when everyone is saying they have an issue and Div is going along saying “I can’t reproduce any of these errors in testing” Same for big companies online and then replying to individual users - do you want to PM us with the issue and we’ll help and you can see them trending on Twitter due to having a massive outage at the time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resk Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55816059 Average £45k loss in investment scams. That's the game for me. Anyone got any good contacts in the biz? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkmenbashi Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 11 hours ago, Mr. Alli said: Looks like I've got my vaccine. NHS and Citroën working their magic for me. Good to see I am not the only one. Probably legit then 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnydun Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 I remember years ago, getting an email saying I had won $500,000 in the Dundee Football Clubs lottery, they even had last weeks winners holding a Wheel Of Fortune cheque. Like I was going to fall for that! Dundee had been placed in Admin 1 the week before. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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