fraud through telephone scam - advice? (UK rights & laws)

[york away to this!]

Joking aside, I was conned by a guy who knocked on my door claming to be the bum inspector and would I show him my bum to make sure it was ok.

Don't fall for it like I did, he just wants to see your bum

dont know why butt that made me laugh...

Stop arse-ing around, it was a shit joke.

cheeky...

 

[ell]

Joking aside, I was conned by a guy who knocked on my door claming to be the bum inspector and would I show him my bum to make sure it was ok.

Don't fall for it like I did, he just wants to see your bum

Sounds like a right arsehole

 

[MCFCinUSA]

yeah, thanks for all the bum advice - and three pages of it!

I'm surprised that there's no comeback for him (or no one's commented on this being possible) since this is a con and he reported it almost immediately - so I'd have expected the banks to have been able to take care of this & suck the money back from where it went.

sometimes people who aren't that computer savvy make mistakes, and can be taken in temporarily.

cheers to the person who mentioned the Banking Ombudsman - I'll pass that on to him.

 

[inflatable_banana]

only a month or two later the bank has recharged him; telling him that because he voluntarily gave out his details he's screwed and it's his loss.

Can the bank prove that he voluntarily gave out his details? The only way they can is if they have said recording, and if so, they are working with the scammers!

* Disclaimer: this may not hold up in a court of law

 

[Franny Lee's Barrel Chest]

I had one of those the other day. Pretended that someone else was home and were asking me questions to ask them such as their name and company and then pretended to do what they asked by pressing the keyboard. As I know my way round the computer I knew what she was asking so could answer what came up. Then when she asked me to press ctrl-r (For remote assistance - I think not!!) I kept going off at a tangent and asking random things etc. After about 20 minutes the line just went dead!

 

[mad4city]

They seem to like me. Every Saturday morning the f**kers are on from Microsoft's Bengal branch.
I think they must get a kick out of my lilting Irish brogue and the way I tell them to f**k off!

The latest scam on the go over here is where people get a couple of calls on their mobile in the middle of the night. Weary & sleepy-eyed, they press redial. Sometimes, they can hear people having sex at the other end of the line and other times there's no noise fortcoming at all. Trouble is, they've just dialled up a premium rate line in Slovakia (of all places!) and they're down a couple of hundred euro.