THE SCAM THREAD

[sfrs4]

@V8Druid is completely right, personally I'd be going after my own bank through the financial ombudsman services, Given the correct information would have made a huge impact on any decision made by the receiver of the money. The bank is unknowingly complicit in the fraudulent transaction.

 

[Giles]

Hahaha

 

[Canal Navvy]

Hahaha

I imagine I'll be getting similar bad luck this year

 

[Lancs Lad]

Hahaha

2nd cracker on here today. Gonna be a good Friday

 

[JerryRtilt]

Hahaha

Most companies are happy take returns

 

[Giles]

2nd cracker on here today. Gonna be a good Friday

What’s the other one?

 

[Lancs Lad]

What’s the other one?

You can relate...
Post in thread 'I challenge you to make me laugh.' https://www.planttalk.co.uk/threads/i-challenge-you-to-make-me-laugh.333/post-158219

 

[Gecko]

Most companies are happy take returns

Not if you use it a few times first!

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Three men jailed for stealing farming machinery in Somerset - BBC News

The men were sentenced at Bristol Crown Court after 20 machines were found in Somerset.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[6feetdown]

Three men jailed for stealing farming machinery in Somerset - BBC News

The men were sentenced at Bristol Crown Court after 20 machines were found in Somerset.

www.bbc.co.uk

Ffs 2 out of 3 suspended sentences, if they'd robbed a bank would have been 10 years

 

[charlie2]

Ffs 2 out of 3 suspended sentences, if they'd robbed a bank would have been 10 years

about 20 mile up the road from me the hollowell guy has been selling stuff on marketplace for a long while tractors and plant etc thought seemed a bit iffy know i know for sure. just looked on marketplace he still has loads of stuff up for sale just search his name.

 

[Steve Blackdog]

FB marketplace is awash with astonishingly cheap excavators at the moment. The scammers are getting better at throwing up legit sellers from your area. Yesterday I found a Takeuchi TB216 for £5k. A little effort paid off as I tracked the self same digger, same photo, same sales description on a legit dealer website but at the proper £12k price.
Presumably they take a holding deposit and disappear.
It makes me so cross

 

[Regy53]

Today one of my team said oh god what now, I said what they said you just emailed ……….

They had this… my it guy said if it was a iPhone this wouldn’t show the email and just from my name.

Team replied and asked what’s up , they asked for vouchers to be sent as aparently I’m in a meeting and have no idea how long it will take hence why I can’t talk. Emailed all my team with a email address but did not email info@ so was smart enough

 

[Lancs Lad]

Today one of my team said oh god what now, I said what they said you just emailed ……….

They had this… my it guy said if it was a iPhone this wouldn’t show the email and just from my name.

Team replied and asked what’s up , they asked for vouchers to be sent as aparently I’m in a meeting and have no idea how long it will take hence why I can’t talk. Emailed all my team with a email address but did not email info@ so was smart enough

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Scum. We've had similar asking our accounts guy to transfer 10k to an account...
I personally know of one a few years ago where they got 14k from a company...email purportedly from a director to accounts lad asking for 14k urgently..

Went to a bank fraud seminar year or two back...women from police cyber crime agency started by saying this is this folks full time job to scam folk and their very good at it and getting better. Some of the stories she told were horrific..
Solicitors getting emails hacked and poor folk paying their deposits and even full amounts for a house into wrong account
All I'd say is rely on instinct and my policy is I'd rather piss a customer or supplier off for a day or two than get scammed...if it doesn't smell right back off.

 

[Giles]

Scum. We've had similar asking our accounts guy to transfer 10k to an account...
I personally know of one a few years ago where they got 14k from a company...email purportedly from a director to accounts lad asking for 14k urgently..

Went to a bank fraud seminar year or two back...women from police cyber crime agency started by saying this is this folks full time job to scam folk and their very good at it and getting better. Some of the stories she told were horrific..
Solicitors getting emails hacked and poor folk paying their deposits and even full amounts for a house into wrong account
All I'd say is rely on instinct and my policy is I'd rather piss a customer or supplier off for a day or two than get scammed...if it doesn't smell right back off.

Big thing about changing payment details with customer, spoofed email by getting an original correspondence like can I have a quote etc then once hey have your style etc they email your clients saying new payment details are etc

Or just hack your email by phishing etc then reply to clients with new details

Most hacking is people hacking to get details etc not code exploits like in the films

 

[DaveDCB]

Scum. We've had similar asking our accounts guy to transfer 10k to an account...
I personally know of one a few years ago where they got 14k from a company...email purportedly from a director to accounts lad asking for 14k urgently..

Went to a bank fraud seminar year or two back...women from police cyber crime agency started by saying this is this folks full time job to scam folk and their very good at it and getting better. Some of the stories she told were horrific..
Solicitors getting emails hacked and poor folk paying their deposits and even full amounts for a house into wrong account
All I'd say is rely on instinct and my policy is I'd rather piss a customer or supplier off for a day or two than get scammed...if it doesn't smell right back off.

I know I’ve said it before but it’s worthy of a repost!
Customer I was working at was buying the tenanted farm from the council, his solicitor had sent genuine email saying send deposit over, scammer intercepted and resent it with different bank details, he sent 350k to scammer…. Rung solicitors week later asking why nothing had moved along……. Then came the police investigation etc.. he only got about 100k back! No arrests - nothing!!

 

[Giles]

I now always have ring known number etc to confirm details before payment

When we bought our house solicitors had us confirm details by phone on original number that all phone correspondence had been on

 

[DaveDCB]

Same, I mentioned what happened above to my solicitors and they soon updated they way they ask for payments etc.

I think the ease of the internet has made everyone complacent and impatient!

There must be internal leaks within the banks though, last place I bought afew months ago I had to go in branch to make the chaps transfer , fella said someone may call you shortly as fraud prevention check - within 15 mins someone rung but it wasn’t the bank!

HTF they know! Either the old skool fella in branch(who I even knew from the previous branch that had shut down) had leaked it, or internal staff had. All reported to fraud team as they picked up on someone trying to reset my account , but they didn’t care less, just reset my account and posted new details out etc, left me without online banking for a week(had no money left anyway so didn’t matter )

Anytime the ‘bank’ calls me, I hang up and call them from the number on my card!

 

[Giles]

Same, I mentioned what happened above to my solicitors and they soon updated they way they ask for payments etc.

I think the ease of the internet has made everyone complacent and impatient!

There must be internal leaks within the banks though, last place I bought afew months ago I had to go in branch to make the chaps transfer , fella said someone may call you shortly as fraud prevention check - within 15 mins someone rung but it wasn’t the bank!

HTF they know! Either the old skool fella in branch(who I even knew from the previous branch that had shut down) had leaked it, or internal staff had. All reported to fraud team as they picked up on someone trying to reset my account , but they didn’t care less, just reset my account and posted new details out etc, left me without online banking for a week(had no money left anyway so didn’t matter )

Anytime the ‘bank’ calls me, I hang up and call them from the number on my card!

I’m the same hang up and call back

 

[DaveDCB]

I’m the same hang up and call back

I feed them aload of false details first just to confuse them, they get so angry