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18-06-2008, 15:52
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Irish Lottery Scam
Friend of mine has just had a phone call telling her that she would get 101 tickets for Irish lottery for £10...........she was given a name, phone number and web site so she gave her card number...............when she tried to get onto web site, surprise, surprise it didn't exist, she then tried the phone number....guess what that didn't exist either..whisked her down to bank but the money had already been taken out, so she has to get another card..........so everyone be warned, don't be caught out.
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18-06-2008, 15:55
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Re: Irish Lottery Scam
And she fell for that one
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18-06-2008, 15:56
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Re: Irish Lottery Scam
Almost forgot.........the girl who dealt with us said that she had had 3 people in this afternoon about scams (having to get new cards) but not about Irish lottery, first time for this one.
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18-06-2008, 15:57
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Re: Irish Lottery Scam
She did............but she is an old woman........at least she got in touch with me right away.
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18-06-2008, 16:46
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Re: Irish Lottery Scam
If it sounds too good to be true it usually is. Why would anyone give card details to an unknown person on the phone. Does she walk around Accy handing out £10 notes to strangers?
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18-06-2008, 17:55
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Re: Irish Lottery Scam
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Originally Posted by Neil
If it sounds too good to be true it usually is. Why would anyone give card details to an unknown person on the phone. Does she walk around Accy handing out £10 notes to strangers?
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Alright calm down it's already been said it was an old woman.
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18-06-2008, 18:10
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Re: Irish Lottery Scam
Thanks for the warning Lynx
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18-06-2008, 18:17
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Re: Irish Lottery Scam
These things can be very plausible to elderly people.I tend to be very cynical about anything but others are more trusting.
They're getting quite crafty too now when phishing.
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18-06-2008, 18:29
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Re: Irish Lottery Scam
well if i am that dumb in another few years,its the leeds/liverpool fer cashy.
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18-06-2008, 18:31
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Re: Irish Lottery Scam
But you and I are aware of these things, by then they'll have come up with something even better and we'll probably fall for it.
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18-06-2008, 18:40
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Re: Irish Lottery Scam
Cons are getting very clever now. One involves someone stealing something from your bin you may not have shredded, for example a bill for say BT . They then ring you and pretend to be BT, and of course they know all about you...where you live, numbers you ring etc. Then they say there was something wrong with a payment and can you confirm card details etc....It all sounds plausible because they know so much about you from the bill.
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18-06-2008, 21:33
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Re: Irish Lottery Scam
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But you and I are aware of these things, by then they'll have come up with something even better and we'll probably fall for it.
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somehow unless we lose the plot, i doubt it, cos greed is usually a factor.
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18-06-2008, 21:35
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Re: Irish Lottery Scam
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Alright calm down it's already been said it was an old woman.
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So is being old an excuse for being stupid?
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18-06-2008, 21:37
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Re: Irish Lottery Scam
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If it sounds too good to be true it usually is. Why would anyone give card details to an unknown person on the phone. Does she walk around Accy handing out £10 notes to strangers?
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Come on Neil, don’t be too hard on an old woman.
The old people are prone to being conned. Don’t forget that they were brought up in an era when you could go on holiday without locking your house doors confident that no one would rob you. People left their milk money in the bottle outside their front door and no one nicked it. People would do the same when the coalman was due and leave the money in the coal shed. People would go to work and leave the house unlocked so that the kids could get in after school. It was an era of trust and those lessons are hard to forget.
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18-06-2008, 21:40
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Re: Irish Lottery Scam
fair comment jim, but back then no-one had TV, n there have been countless warnings on telly, papers,radio, about differant cons, so i reckon greed was a factor.
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