Dangerous new 'phone scam !

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Dangerous new 'phone scam !

Postby chenrezig » 05 Mar 2014, 13:05

The dangerous new scam you need to know about: Conmen target bank customers calling from a phone number that mimics that of their bank

    Victims receive calls that appear to be from their bank
    Conmen trick victims into revealing their online banking details
    Banking and internet fraud has jumped by a third in one year

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/saving ... z2v5phYNIx
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Re: Dangerous new 'phone scam !

Postby annie » 05 Mar 2014, 13:27

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Postby debzsanderson » 05 Mar 2014, 15:36

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Re: Dangerous new 'phone scam !

Postby JaneJ » 05 Mar 2014, 17:40

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Thank you for the warning
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Postby Misspears » 05 Mar 2014, 18:23

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Re: Dangerous new 'phone scam !

Postby wendy » 05 Mar 2014, 19:55

I hope you will read this, because they even will have the banks phone number show on your phone.
I find that odd, because my bank it would say witheld.
I stress again, how important it is to read this through.
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Postby Rosalind » 05 Mar 2014, 21:34

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Re: Dangerous new 'phone scam !

Postby maureenho » 05 Mar 2014, 22:52

I posted about a Telephone scam a couple of weeks ago but no took any notice.

http://chill4us.com/index.php/topic,46461.0.html
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