You can report such scams here — report@phishing.gov.uk — its a government site collating cyber scams, whether it does any good or not I don't know but if more people send things in it may well help ?

Link to HMG site

**LINK**

My friend had one today. He had set up a bank transfer to a guy he bought a night vision scope from. Which went through & he received his item.

Today he received a txt saying the transfer did not go through & to click the link to verify the transaction. Now my mate is a pretty savy guy who restores classic bikes & is an MOT tester.

So being the clever guy he is, what did he do. Yes he clicked the link & put details in that he should not have. He realised at the wrong moment he had cocked up & rang the fraud squad.

Now all his cards have been cancelled etc etc.

So yes anyone can be conned easily.

Last week i had a Paypal dispute question , of which i knew to be false , so did not react.

Be very careful people. It is rife out there. Nearly as bad as the dam Covid.

Last year i had i over £7000 of fraudulant transactions on my Paypal account. Luckily Paypal sorted it out for me.

Now when i do any payments & i do a lot, i get a txt with a ref No from Paypal on my phone to verify. Without that No the transaction will not go through. It is easy to set up & i urge any of you who use paypal to set this system up to stop any fraud on your account. Regards to all & stay safe in these crappy times.

P.S we have just been put on lockdown here in Leeds.

Steve.

Thought it was just me, I have had loads of these “Your name has been selected in our prize draw” or similar. The recent one insists that my subscription to Norton antivirus is about to expire, strange, as I do not have a Norton subscription. I have got to the stage that if I don’t know the sender I just delete them

I had the Lloyds bank one the other week, referred it back to Lloyds. Easy enough to spot as I don’t bank with them.

A friend received an email from someone in Portugal saying that he had won an Iphone 11 and he should send his address details. I advised him not to but he ignored me and sent his details. A few days later he received his Iphone!

So much for my advice.

To one n all :

"If in any doubt, chuck it out"

You just HAVE to resist the temptation, hard as it may be.

Remember the old quote, curiosity killed the cat.

It’s not only online and telephone scams that you need to be aware of, in the last two months my credit card has had fraudulent entries that I had to report to the bank. First time there were three fraudulent entries which had apparently been used to purchase online games using a computer whose IP address was in Doncaster, I live in East Sussex so not hard to convince my bank it wasn’t me. Second scam was an entry that appeared on my credit card as a payment to “Arkwright Road” an organisation that my bank could find no details of so they categorised it as a fraud; have a good idea where the fraud came from as a trader said his online card link wouldn’t work so he had to use the old fashioned paper swipe method so easy to use the card details and by flipping the card over they can read the security numbers on the reverse and have everything they need for a fraud. Bank has been brilliant, refunded as soon as I reported the problems but each time they have to change the account number and issue a new card, my bank has said that since COVID struck then fraud has rocketed and they are struggling to get on top of it. It seems COVID has been a godsend to scammers in which ever medium they operate.
Dave W