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UK: Did You Receive an Unexpected Call? It may be a Scam!

Have You Received a Scam Phone Call in the UK?

Scammers are not just busy on the internet, they are burning up the phone lines in attempts to scam people. There are a number of common scams, such as:

• Collect Call scams
• Inmate collect call scams
• Phone service is about to be cut off
• Telemarketers

and some new and as yet, uncommon scams. Just to prove that you can't trust phone calls you receive, see the examples reports of phone scams we've received:

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1. Example phone scam, received from a visitor, March 29, 2008:

   The Scam I have just identified is that a call came to my home phone number in the UK and it was a recording of "Hello....Hello... Can you hear me" with some crackling in the back ground. This kind of scam is to make you dial 1471 to find the number and then call them back. In this instance the number was 07036563317 which is a premium personal number.

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Reporting Phone Scams in the England, Scotland and Wales

1. Start by contacting the phone company (British Telecom) and alerting them to the scam.

2. The Bureau of Trade and Standards may be more interested: 

3. Finally, if neither of those groups pay attention, try your local Councilman ) or your MP

 

 

 

 

 

 

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