I am so sorry to hear what has happened to you,and thank you for the warning...Relieved to see some positive news here 🤞🏻your bank manager recovers/ reimburses the rest of your money.What a truly horrible experience.Sent with Love and best wishes for a good outcome from the UK ❤️
Sorry to hear that Jaime, hope you get sorted soon!
Damn telephone scammers are a plague and a pest.
I get occasional ones telling my Windows is infected and spreading viruses, telling me to press this that and the other, if I'm in the mood I play with them for a bit before informing them I'm actually on a Mac and informing them as to my thoughts on their ancestry.
The other favourite is the emails that tell me they're watching me on my webcam browsing dodgy sites and demanding payment in Bitcoin, my wife gets them too and she hasn't even got a camera on het laptop.
I truly hate scammers... they're almost as bad as Big Harma. Well, no..... but they still need to rot in Hell.
For what it's worth your bank might have fraud protection against these scum. In the states you might be covered for various scams like this depending on what happened. So it's worth asking.
Nobody cold-calling you (or showing pop-up ads) about your computer or anything connected to it can possibly know if it’s “performing” properly. It’s a guaranteed scam.
The thing is, I suspect it has something to do with my actual broadband provider who I recently reported a fault on the line to (after BT replaced the telegraph pole) and they tested the router remotely from their end. This is what threw me. I suspect that these people knew about the fault earlier and exploited that incident. I sailed through the Covid scam virtually untouched by the grand lies and deceptions, but then I'm caught out by some chattering, foreign-accented thieving bastard scammer pretending to fix and replace my router. Not good.
Yes. “Jason” with an Indian accent is definitely a red flag. Nothing against India or Indians, but that country is known for lax enforcement of their weak-tea laws against this kind of thing.
Thank you for the comments everyone. The VERY good news is that my bank managed to stop the larger payment so it's just the much smaller payment which went through and they're chasing that up to see if they can get it refunded. So after a sleepless night I am very relieved. Now just got to make absolutely sure my laptop is squeaky clean before I can do any banking or online payments or too much online at all really.
Ouch. Just remember its only money and noy something really important like your health or dignity. Sending good luck and positive vibes your way ~~~~~~ (those are waves of positronic energy - shut up it is very scieterific!) 😁
We all feel vulnerable and powerless when this kind of thing happens. It will take you a while to recover your faith in human nature but it will come back.
Please don't let this stop you railing against the criminal idiocies being inflicted on our society. Your column is valuable to us all.
I'm so sorry to hear this happened... SO upsetting. Take the time you need to regroup and re-establish all your stuff and your sanity and well-being.
Sorry to hear that. I had something similar, but fortunately, my bank restored the funds. Some of the scammers are pretty resourceful.
Glad it appears to be sorted.👍
I am so sorry to hear what has happened to you,and thank you for the warning...Relieved to see some positive news here 🤞🏻your bank manager recovers/ reimburses the rest of your money.What a truly horrible experience.Sent with Love and best wishes for a good outcome from the UK ❤️
Thanks Helen.
Sorry to hear that Jaime, hope you get sorted soon!
Damn telephone scammers are a plague and a pest.
I get occasional ones telling my Windows is infected and spreading viruses, telling me to press this that and the other, if I'm in the mood I play with them for a bit before informing them I'm actually on a Mac and informing them as to my thoughts on their ancestry.
The other favourite is the emails that tell me they're watching me on my webcam browsing dodgy sites and demanding payment in Bitcoin, my wife gets them too and she hasn't even got a camera on het laptop.
I truly hate scammers... they're almost as bad as Big Harma. Well, no..... but they still need to rot in Hell.
For what it's worth your bank might have fraud protection against these scum. In the states you might be covered for various scams like this depending on what happened. So it's worth asking.
Sorry for your financial rape....
The bank were good. They stopped the second large payment and they're trying to recover the few hundred pounds which went out earlier.
So sorry to hear of your misadventure.
Nobody cold-calling you (or showing pop-up ads) about your computer or anything connected to it can possibly know if it’s “performing” properly. It’s a guaranteed scam.
The thing is, I suspect it has something to do with my actual broadband provider who I recently reported a fault on the line to (after BT replaced the telegraph pole) and they tested the router remotely from their end. This is what threw me. I suspect that these people knew about the fault earlier and exploited that incident. I sailed through the Covid scam virtually untouched by the grand lies and deceptions, but then I'm caught out by some chattering, foreign-accented thieving bastard scammer pretending to fix and replace my router. Not good.
Thanks for sharing the context of the scam here, new we here can all use, hope the rest of yr 2023 is scam-free and prosperous 🙏🏿
Yes. “Jason” with an Indian accent is definitely a red flag. Nothing against India or Indians, but that country is known for lax enforcement of their weak-tea laws against this kind of thing.
It doesn't help when genuine service providers also employ heavily accented foreigners who you struggle to understand.
The big telcos in Australia outsource their helplines to the Philippines.
Hope everything is sorted soon. It must be horrible feeling. Thanks for sharing though as a warning.
I'm so sorry this has happened. Don't let yourself get stewed up about it. It won't do you any good.
Thank you for the comments everyone. The VERY good news is that my bank managed to stop the larger payment so it's just the much smaller payment which went through and they're chasing that up to see if they can get it refunded. So after a sleepless night I am very relieved. Now just got to make absolutely sure my laptop is squeaky clean before I can do any banking or online payments or too much online at all really.
Damn, they have so much courage when they know you can not reach out and touch them...
Rest and recover.
Sorry to hear about the scam. That's frustrating.
Sorry to hear this.
Ouch. Just remember its only money and noy something really important like your health or dignity. Sending good luck and positive vibes your way ~~~~~~ (those are waves of positronic energy - shut up it is very scieterific!) 😁
Well, my dignity's taken a hard hit - I just cannot believe I have been so gullible and stupid.
Don't beat yourself up. It's a ridiculous world: imagine a place where everyone is trying to fuck everyone else over. Well you're there.
We all feel vulnerable and powerless when this kind of thing happens. It will take you a while to recover your faith in human nature but it will come back.
Please don't let this stop you railing against the criminal idiocies being inflicted on our society. Your column is valuable to us all.
That's nice. Someone just disabled their email. Makes me feel a whole lot better.