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city2

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Has the time come to shop how we use to, go into a shop pick what you want and pay that way at least we know we have got the goods in hand and it’s not been left on the doorstep for some fucker to steal it, have we become so lazy and are feeding the scammers because of it. I hate to hear of people being ripped off with bogus websites especially this time of year.
 
BimboBob said:
If it sounds too good to be true...

People being ripped off is because people are thick as pigshit and want something for nothing.
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Sometimes that may well be the case, there are a lot of thick people around. But when you have sites like DH Gate which are reliable being cheap as chips, some people will trust a wider range of sites thinking they’d be of the same ilk.

I remember there used to be a Ray Ban website that looked genuine but the glasses were about £50 instead of £150. I got up to the point of paying once but it would only accept credit cards and wouldn’t accept my debit card so I sacked it off as I thought it was dodgy, but loads of people would go through with it. I don’t think that site exists anymore.

My Father was stung by one of these kind of sites and they took a few hundred quid out of his bank for one t-shirt he ordered for about £12.

Plus a lot of the big scammers catch a lot of elderly or vulnerable people.

I watched some BBC daytime programme once, Crimewatch or something; the scammers found information on an elderly widower who once had a Timeshare abroad with his wife and the scammers got in touch saying that he owed thousands of pounds on it because of some changes after Brexit or something. They said the bailiffs would be coming round if he didn’t pay it so he paid thousands to them.

Although, as you say, there are a lot of thick people… on the same programme a woman had been scammed and she said ‘this is the fifth time I’ve been scammed now’, so you’d think the idiot would have learnt the first, maybe even the second time. But often it’s not just thickos who get stung.
 
We have to intervene monthly with my mother in law, she's always agreeing to sign up to something or send money somewhere with her dementia. The scammers don't care one bit. Some of them are even legit but high pressure sales pitches by people of questionable morality, pushed on to someone not capable of making those decisions. We have power of attorney but it still happens, from phone viruses to new direct debits and subscriptions.

At work recently we've been heavily targeted by time limited email messages from banks, payroll etc, at a time the company is making significant headcount reductions. I've not heard of anyone falling for it as yet, but a reminder that these people have no heart and no conscience. They want your money and will do whatever to get it, lie, beg, steal, it doesn't matter.

The one that worries me is the ones scanning cards or phones for payment information via close contact. All they have to do is walk around a market or shops and hope their machine picks up your details. So lock your phones, get a protective wallet or similar for cards, and a farriday pouch for you car keys if your car opens remotely.
 
It's gone a bit quiet currently but they'll be back with a vengeance soon no doubt. Three or four times per day week after week. Fortunately, I usually know almost immediately due to the delay before they answer. What pisses me off more though. Look on YouTube and you can see videos of them being reversed hacked. The BBC even make a fucking tv show out of it. So if everyone else knows who they are, how come we can't block the bastards? Wouldn't surprise me if BT and the like actually make money from the traffic!
 
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.db. said:
Sometimes that may well be the case, there are a lot of thick people around. But when you have sites like DH Gate which are reliable being cheap as chips, some people will trust a wider range of sites thinking they’d be of the same ilk.

I remember there used to be a Ray Ban website that looked genuine but the glasses were about £50 instead of £150. I got up to the point of paying once but it would only accept credit cards and wouldn’t accept my debit card so I sacked it off as I thought it was dodgy, but loads of people would go through with it. I don’t think that site exists anymore.

My Father was stung by one of these kind of sites and they took a few hundred quid out of his bank for one t-shirt he ordered for about £12.

Plus a lot of the big scammers catch a lot of elderly or vulnerable people.

I watched some BBC daytime programme once, Crimewatch or something; the scammers found information on an elderly widower who once had a Timeshare abroad with his wife and the scammers got in touch saying that he owed thousands of pounds on it because of some changes after Brexit or something. They said the bailiffs would be coming round if he didn’t pay it so he paid thousands to them.

Although, as you say, there are a lot of thick people… on the same programme a woman had been scammed and she said ‘this is the fifth time I’ve been scammed now’, so you’d think the idiot would have learnt the first, maybe even the second time. But often it’s not just thickos who get stung.
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Some mistake here surely.

If a site only takes credit cards and not debit cards they have no access to your bank account. Your dad must have paid by debit card.

You should only ever use a credit card when buying on line.
 
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Some of the biggest scams are corporate, where has the chocolate gone from many of the chocolate bars today and why are they charging us as though the product still has chocolate in it.

To add insult to injury and take the piss out of people who follow the brand loyalty line they even shrink the product so you get less of what you think you're getting.
 
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