Scam alert to all you website owners

[Jock Spanners]

Evening all,
I've just had a customer tell me how he was scammed last year whilst having block paving laid. Apparently he'd arranged for the work to be done (communicating with the builder via the builder's website). He then received an invoice asking for an advance payment to cover the cost of materials (£2500). The invoice was faultless and having previously agreed the price with the builder he paid it via BACS. Only it wasn't him - it was a scammer. Someone had hacked the builder's website and monitored his correspondence before forging an invoice and sending it via the website. The police investigated but drew a blank. My customer's bank only accepted partial responsibility and eventually gave him £800. The moral of the story is: get your techie to make sure your website is really secure. I just have.
Stay safe.

Jock

 

[Phil]

Scamming runts!

Why cant they put their skills to good use?

I'm now phoned twice a day by the Talk Talk scammers who want you to hold down the windows key and press R then type in a program address to which they use to send a virus to my computer which in turn remembers my passwords for internet banking. Another team then clears you out etc.

I enjoy toying with them now and actually welcome a call, I go from pure blind rage and the most obscence ville hate filled filth I can pour down the phone or simply to just talk calmly to them and make them feel bad "is this really what you want to do with your life, work for and be an f ing scammer"?

They then say.."who told you I was a scammer!" "i'm not a scammer" ha ha ha

I've been called a Mardarchod recently and now use that word against them, it means mf (have relations with your mother) but I think is more offensive to them than our mf word.

 

[Jock Spanners]

Hindi - that narrows it down to about a billion people. My father in law keeps them talking for hours pretending to comply with their instructions before asking: "Do I switch on now?". I just say: "Wait a minute please." Then I just leave them on the line and make a cup of tea and leave them waiting. If you ask for their number so you can ring them back that normally results in them instantly ringing off.