Scammed

[dai dogs 2,140]

Anyone been or are you to proud to tell ?

[WILF 51,045]

56 minutes ago, dai dogs said:

Anyone been or are you to proud to tell ?

Send me £500 and I’ll tell you ! 

[mitre 390]

Scammed is not a nice experience for anyone all sorts can fool for it unexpectedly some of the scammers are very good at spinning their lies and very confident and convincing 

[Qbgrey 4,384]

Marriage. 

[mitre 390]

If it's marriage thats not nice either if you got a nagging wife a mother in law that keeps popping round or other reasons let us know and let it off your chest we will not judge 

[THE STIFFMEISTER 17,480]

I was away for a few weeks with work wise and I received a notification requesting my eBay pass word in a text 

I checked my emails and seen that my eBay account had been locked out with a password change

then the notifications started on my phone as reception came in 

20 pound spent 

19.99 transaction

25.99 transaction 

37.99 transaction 

About 500 quid all up , I was slowly being scammed , robbed , pillaged of all my hard earned wages, whilst I was sat in the Kenyan ulu, nowhere to go, I rang the bank on the abroad number , they were amazing , security checks passed , a list of transactions that I didn’t recognise , eBay , ambre solaire , the cheeky c**ts had even been on booking.com and booked a Wednesday hotel overnight in Durham .

this was it , I was seething , I was gonna turn up , and iron them out with a fire extinguisher “here ya are you cheeky b*****ds , have this with your complimentary English breakfast and views of the river , you f***ing prick ! “ 

The fraud team were great , they blocked my card and were about to refund the money when the agent suddeny noticed that the eBay orders were to be posted to an address in North Yorkshire , then it clicked . 
 

Never leave your card with the wife 

[tatsblisters 11,047]

Only once we're some one who i reckon at the time was from dragon carp a mail order fishing tackle outfit who ever had took my order by phone had then tried to buy a 150 pound pair of shoes using my card details lucky for me the bank blocked it and the Halifax got intouch more or less straight away. This was over 20 years ago though. 

[Greyman 32,339]

My misses got scammed by the tv licensing man years ago and let him in lol 

[Greyman 32,339]

I think half the forum got caught by the mugged ferreter that lost his Binos lol

[THE STIFFMEISTER 17,480]

11 minutes ago, Greyman said:

I think half the forum got caught by the mugged ferreter that lost his Binos lol

Ha ha I remember that 

[Qbgrey 4,384]

9 hours ago, mitre said:

If it's marriage thats not nice either if you got a nagging wife a mother in law that keeps popping round or other reasons let us know and let it off your chest we will not judge 

Thankyou for your Samaritan style support mitre, I’m only joking etc as my mrs is no trouble, we get along all good 

[Councilestatekid 2,151]

Few years ago mrs credit card that she never used got scammed only found out as she was out with her mum neither Had there purses on them her mother wanted something so she remembered card was in car. Few days later she went to pay card and was transactions for car insurance alsorts so she phoned bank they said with transactions needed a crime number or something so she went police station police just went yea gave her number wasn't interested she said you'll be able to find them with car insurance etc never heard a thing affected her credit score and had to go explain to work as she was high up in the banking game 

[Councilestatekid 2,151]

Forgot to to add about 18grand was spent on it

[WILF 51,045]

10 hours ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

I was away for a few weeks with work wise and I received a notification requesting my eBay pass word in a text 

I checked my emails and seen that my eBay account had been locked out with a password change

then the notifications started on my phone as reception came in 

20 pound spent 

19.99 transaction

25.99 transaction 

37.99 transaction 

About 500 quid all up , I was slowly being scammed , robbed , pillaged of all my hard earned wages, whilst I was sat in the Kenyan ulu, nowhere to go, I rang the bank on the abroad number , they were amazing , security checks passed , a list of transactions that I didn’t recognise , eBay , ambre solaire , the cheeky c**ts had even been on booking.com and booked a Wednesday hotel overnight in Durham .

this was it , I was seething , I was gonna turn up , and iron them out with a fire extinguisher “here ya are you cheeky b*****ds , have this with your complimentary English breakfast and views of the river , you f***ing prick ! “ 

The fraud team were great , they blocked my card and were about to refund the money when the agent suddeny noticed that the eBay orders were to be posted to an address in North Yorkshire , then it clicked . 
 

Never leave your card with the wife 

Your Mrs got scammed, she thought she was marrying Edward Cullen and ended up with Eddie the Eagle !

[mel b 3,956]

A woman I dated for a while , sat on the edge of the bed crying one day ( thats nothing unusual after one of my dire attempts at lovemaking).  She said that 8k had just been taken out of her bank account . She called the bank , and within the space of a few minutes , the bank had confirmed that it was a phishing scam , and just put the 8k back into her account.

I wash a bit shocked by it all , and for a bank to just hand over 8k like it was 10p , must mean that it's nothing unusual , and happens all the time.

My mrs had a few small transactions on her card a few years ago . The money was being spent at a small Asian supermarket near Handsworth in Birmingham. She called the bank , and they just stopped the card .  She still had the card in her purse , and the bank said that it will have been cloned in one of the shops that she used it in ( that card was only ever used at the asian petrol station up the road). The bank said that the scammers will often take a few small amounts , and then go for the big one.