This is a quick heads up to anyone who owns an Apple product.
I’ve had two texts in the last four days telling me that my Apple Pay account has been suspended due to unusual activity. 😳 There’s a link to click on to reactive my wallet. 🙄
Unfortunately they shouldn’t have wasted two texts as I don’t use Apple Pay and that function is turned off on all my Apple things. But in case anyone else here does, I thought I’d better let you know that the scammers are back.
Post by Berry McPaper-cuts on Dec 16, 2022 22:47:26 GMT
Text to my mobile by my alleged provider asking me to log in to my account as they had the wrong address. It purported to be from Three rather than My Three.
Another phone scam doing the rounds - beware of your son/daughter texting "Hi Mum" from an unknown number, claiming from a "friend's" phone with a low battery they've lost their phone, so please contact them on.... - next step involves sending money to stranded son/daughter...
A friend sent me this and said he’d had two such calls but he’d just hung up. I’m assuming it’s genuine and isn’t containing a joke that I’ve missed (I’m sure that someone will put me right if I have 😉) but just incase ……..
Worth watching BBC Crimewatch 10:00am today to find out how easy it for scammers to sell your house without you knowing, and how difficult it is to get it back. The new purchaser is protected by the law, not the real owner.
Becoming a popular organised crime, and not just limited to unoccupied property, but mortgaged or rented and mortgage-free property as well. Make sure your property is registered with the Land Registry, check your contact details are correct, the property alert system is free and if you place a restriction on your property they will email you to confirm any action occurring, and require a certificate from solicitor etc.
We registered with the Land Registry last year after reading about a Vicar who rented his house out, whilst on secondment to another area, and the people renting sold his home!
They sent a text this year to confirm no action on our property had taken place. Well worth doing.
A new one to me. I got an automated call this morning from “Visa debit” to say that they had a pending payment for £900 and to authorise this payment I should press 1 on the keyboard.
I pressed nothing, except for the ‘cancel call’ button, because I haven’t got anything pending on my account and haven’t bought anything recently,
Post by Berry McPaper-cuts on Mar 24, 2023 10:14:36 GMT
If I need to authorise a payment I am required to open up my banking app and authorise it within the ‘pending authorisation’ section where it warns you not to proceed if someone is pressurising you. This is not the same as when I buy using Paypal for instance where I get the onetime code via my mobile phone. The extra security is good and reassuring. Whenever my debit card is used say at Aldi , I get a phone message from the bank straightaway telling me how much for , the date and time and name of the company.
I tend to only use the same online retailers and don’t have to authorise payment every time. However, when I buy something online from somewhere new, I do get the authorisation code sent to my phone which I think is great.
However, I don’t get a phone message from my bank if I use my card in store, but thereagain I tend to shop in the same retailers so maybe they’re used to seeing those transactions. I invariably use cash in-store but recently have started using my debit card as my bank is currently doing a 5% money back offer for certain stores.
I got a text this evening. It was one that’s been featured a few times on scam programmes.
“Hi mum I am texting you from someone number. I fully broke my phone can you please text me on my new WhatsApp (the number) Because I don’t have credit”
Sadly that idiot will go wanting because 1) my son speaks properly without grammatical errors and 2) I’m blonde but not stupid.
Unfortunately though a lot have probably fallen for this scam.