I received an email, a blackmailing email claiming they hacked my computer and have videos of me doing things with my male member, I not only have my camera covered but I am a mid 60 yr old woman so I don't have a dangle. However, this must be told as there maybe young and old men who may be afraid of the video (which they don't actually have) being sent to their family friends, IT IS A SCAM and a cruel one.
I had an email like that too. It was quite quite aggressive and annoyed me rather than shocked me. I just ignored it and blocked the sender. It's just chancers trying to frighten people.
I’m very aware that voice-recording and cloning is used by scam callers in the hope of capturing you saying the words ‘yes’ or ‘ok’ or ‘I agree’ which they can then reconstruct to create a fake recording of you agreeing to pay for something, but even so I always (carefully) play with scammers and waste their time. Avoiding using any of the above words, I mimic the accent of the person calling if it’s a male, and I make up all sorts of nonsense to confuse them. They always give up in the end. Better still, if it’s a female scammer, I have the perfect response: When they call and ask me “how I’m doing today” I pause for a moment and then say in a slow deep breathy voice “What are you wearing?” Click! She’s gone. Never fails. Then block the number from ever reaching me again. It makes me laugh to run rings round these ‘people’ and laughter is the best medicine! 😉
I had fun with the "microsoft" man who would, free of charge, guide me through the process of "repairing" stuff on my computer. I was singing his praises and cleverness for about 5 minutes before he tried to hurry me along, which is when I told him I don't have a computer. I get road toll messages all the time, threatening legal action. They're easy, I don't own a car and we don't have any toll roads around here.
I had 2 text messages with a link to pay for parking fines. I immediately reported and blocked them promptly. It's amazing how far people will go to scam innocent folks.
My wife and I are fed up with scammers phoning us several times daily and receiving emails, telling us that money has been taken from our accounts. It's nearly always an Asian voice with a phone number from Birmingham. As soon as I hear the scammer I leave the phone off the hook and let them talk to themselves. I got a woman scammer keeps phoning me asking if Mrs Kennedy was there, I got sick of this so I told her Mrs Kennedy was dead. I said she was up on the roof and she fell off and killed herself. that confuses them.
A family member got a call asking for her brother. He had a brain tumor and terminal. She knew it was a scam. She told them the address he could be reached at. It was the cemetery
Dont answer the call if its important they will leave a voicemail then block the number and report them to police,i get cold called every day then dont answer they get the message.but always report them.
The NHS is not strict with their approach to privacy. I frequently get calls that turn out to be from the local hospital that are from withheld numbers, the caller doesn't identify but launches into questions about my personal information. All my prescription medicine labels have not only my name but also my date of birth -when collecting they never ask for my date of birth to confirm identity and even if they did, they could keep that information of the packaging, which ends up in the bin.
I used to get scammers calling on my landline claiming to be the bank. When I tell them the bank only have my mobile number on file they hang up. I still get 3 or 4 scam emails a day, but the filter puts them in the junk folder.
Talk to them ,l do winds them up ,,like press your windows key ,,,,oh you want keys for your windows my son fitted mine really safe ,,,,,pay back scammed on YT ,,,great ideas
I don’t buy online, or do deals at the door. The landline is going next week when I go over to the new fibre set up. I don’t click any links and block whatsapps from businesses and strangers and yet it’s so stressful. What age range is the elderly in your view? Most people I know are 70+ and are very savvy about this kind of fraud. The ones I know personally who’ve been caught out are in their 40s.
Never have more than 20p in my account so it makes me PML when I get a scam saying someone has spent hundreds of pounds on phone/travel/fridge 😂😂😂😂 Good luck with that!!
The last scam call I had was the "your computer has been sending them errors and warnings mesages". I told him that it was time to get a new script. He muttered something in a foreign language and disappeared.
That happened to me the other day, my landline phone rang. Because he asked for me using my middle name too, and he had a Scottish accent, he spoke well , I thought initially , it was a genuine call. Apparently my bank card had been used in two other cities. The scammer will keep asking if anyone could have used the card, have you lost it, did you make any unusual payments. This sets you thinking only of what you have been doing recently. Anyway, I knew definitely it was a scam when he asked me to log into my bank account. Of course I refused as I know how scammers work. I can see how it would easily fool someone who didn't know. Yes, I am one of 'the elderly' at 75 years old, but I don't have a TV, I spend far too much time watching RUclips !
I run a small business and as a Limited Company my contact details are publicly available. I had an e.mail recently looking like a GOV website asking me to click on a link to verify my VAT registration details. I am not VAT registered. Its a scam. Beware.
I had a letter from HMRC stating i hadn’t kept up with my repayments which was not true because everything is a standing order where a payment is never missed! I did however call a weird number that was on the letter, which the people answering were putting me through different lines. I called the actual hmrc who said to ignore the letter and everything was good in terms of payment and no letter was issued.
@@tangorhumba3777: U can report any fraud to ur phone's network so whenever u block a phone number it should give u the option to report it and u could also report them to ur local police station
I had an email from Fedex saying i needed to pay import duty on a delivery that was in transit from Italy, they would pay it on my behalf but i would have pay now! I did have a delivery from Italy LAST week delivered from Fedex,postage was paid when i bought it. I deleted the email!
I do not know if this has already been suggested. For an elderly person with a landline, get them an answer machine. Scammers rarely leave a message but a family member or friend will.
That advice with a card next to the landline is worthless as many scammers make their victims call them. A scammer leaving a number and the old person later calling them is not protected. They will fleece the poor pensioner.
This is great, creating awareness but… you forgot to mention those money robbing ITV competitions, Win that car etc… my mother run up a huge phone bill, considering the chances of winning are zero, praying on vulnerable people. Including the poor and elderly who fall pray!
I am a Norwegian woman and I can speak fluent English anytime, but when I get a scammer on my phone I choose to speak Norwegian and pretend I don't understand English 😂 They give up very quickly.
I had a couple of texts supposedly from Royal Mail asking me to click on a link last month. As I was actually expecting something from abroad I was in two minds but fortunately my phone flagged it as a potential scam.
Thank god I got rid of my landline. I had so many random spam calls from Amazon, Microsoft, HMRC, Dell, a random bank, police...etc, sometimes close to midnight 😂
Same, only ever scam calls, i never used to answer my landline it always went to answer phone, and sometimes a robot would leave me a message lol. got rid of me landline years ago.
@@DDSizeBra Depends on your system, i used to set mine to answer phone only, i think you can set them to ring a number of times before going to answer phone, very rare that anyone rang my landline, except for scammers.
Get an answerphone if you have a landlines. Majority of scam calls will end the call before the message prompt. You can vet all your calls without needing to answer the call, so can ask advice from another family member if your not sure.
I got a winter payment one and deleted it qs i couldn't understand it (it was written weirdly) I got a similar nationwide one but i called the actual nationwide number to be safe they confirmed it was them and someone had my details Im glad i didnt assume though
Alice is good, but she doesn't understand how much worse those Facebook quiz things are than she thinks. They have access to all the info you've added to your FB profile that was set to higher visibility than "Only Me", but even worse than that, they can scrape all of the info that all of your friends have set on their profiles with visibility of "Friends". So every time you do a dumb quiz, you're exposing all of your friends info that you're able to see.
No Facebook, TicToc, WhatsApp, Instagram etc and not at all Interested. Email fills up with junk and is deleted. Online banking used so every transaction is notified immediately. My bank never phones me even when they blocked my account and I spent an hour at the branch sorting it out before switching banks......😮
My BT broadband went down some years ago. I reported this to what I believe was a call centre in India. What followed was an elaborate scam, I almost fell for it but became suspicious and shut it down. What followed was an abusive and foul mouthed phone call. The parasite got nothing.
I have a feeling when ordering on computer from, ebay, somebody might be hacking ebay, because on some occasions after ordering a text comes on phone, about clicking a Link which i never do, when they claim they were no able to deliver your parcel.
One you need to know about is Vinted fake sellers because there's alot most upload after 10pm always buy from people who have feedback and look if they have the same background on each item there selling because if they have different backgrounds for around 10 items there selling its a fake listing
With vinted everyone stars somewhere and everyone started with no reviews so saying only buy from people with feedback is unfair to new sellers who have only just started and not sold anything
A scammer once asked me for my name and address so I told him my name is James Bond and my address is 10 Downing Street. The dumb clown entered it in his database and must have subsequently sold it to some other scammers. I now get calls from scammers thinking that I'm Mr James Bond. No, I have not made this up. It's completely true!
You know we didn't have these problems before the invention. Of cash/credit cards. Be brave and shop using money or the old fashioned cheque where you can. Is progress killing us?
Bring the irish scam catcher man back on he was full of informantion a legend he works with others to stop theses and tracks them down..he was on (undercover) jim browning hes on youtube and this morning website
I have a landline and if I do not recognise the number, I will not answer. I have names next to my numbers, so will answer them only! I also, have had emails from "Lloyds" I never reply to them.
Why do these programs keep promoting these problems when some people and that's not a few people have no one to do this too these people saying contact your relative etc have no one arggg
Please, freeze the frame 0:33, look at Alice face on and tell me what it is that makes her (and many others) do their hair so that their head is in the shape of the tip of a man's plonker? Do they not realise what they look like? I've been seeing this for decades. Am I the only one who notices this? If I see someone with that style I have to walk away as I'm constantly laughing inside my head.
When we cling to Jesus even death cannot part us. He overcame death and the grave when He hung from that cross at Calvery. We do nor need to fear death and the grave. We have been redeemed. 🙏 🙏
I'm 71. I worked in IT.
I'm surprised these youngsters are falling for scams.
I received an email, a blackmailing email claiming they hacked my computer and have videos of me doing things with my male member, I not only have my camera covered but I am a mid 60 yr old woman so I don't have a dangle.
However, this must be told as there maybe young and old men who may be afraid of the video (which they don't actually have) being sent to their family friends, IT IS A SCAM and a cruel one.
I had an email like that too. It was quite quite aggressive and annoyed me rather than shocked me. I just ignored it and blocked the sender. It's just chancers trying to frighten people.
There needs to be a crackdown on these scams.
If you weren’t rich yesterday, then you won’t miss it tomorrow. Nobody gives anyone something for nothing. Ignore them all.
I’m very aware that voice-recording and cloning is used by scam callers in the hope of capturing you saying the words ‘yes’ or ‘ok’ or ‘I agree’ which they can then reconstruct to create a fake recording of you agreeing to pay for something, but even so I always (carefully) play with scammers and waste their time. Avoiding using any of the above words, I mimic the accent of the person calling if it’s a male, and I make up all sorts of nonsense to confuse them. They always give up in the end. Better still, if it’s a female scammer, I have the perfect response: When they call and ask me “how I’m doing today” I pause for a moment and then say in a slow deep breathy voice “What are you wearing?” Click! She’s gone. Never fails. Then block the number from ever reaching me again. It makes me laugh to run rings round these ‘people’ and laughter is the best medicine! 😉
I had fun with the "microsoft" man who would, free of charge, guide me through the process of "repairing" stuff on my computer. I was singing his praises and cleverness for about 5 minutes before he tried to hurry me along, which is when I told him I don't have a computer.
I get road toll messages all the time, threatening legal action. They're easy, I don't own a car and we don't have any toll roads around here.
I had 2 text messages with a link to pay for parking fines. I immediately reported and blocked them promptly. It's amazing how far people will go to scam innocent folks.
Me to. I didn't know I owned a car. They seem to think I do
Happened to me!!
My wife and I are fed up with scammers phoning us several times daily and receiving emails, telling us that money has been taken from our accounts. It's nearly always an Asian voice with a phone number from Birmingham. As soon as I hear the scammer I leave the phone off the hook and let them talk to themselves. I got a woman scammer keeps phoning me asking if Mrs Kennedy was there, I got sick of this so I told her Mrs Kennedy was dead. I said she was up on the roof and she fell off and killed herself. that confuses them.
A family member got a call asking for her brother. He had a brain tumor and terminal. She knew it was a scam. She told them the address he could be reached at. It was the cemetery
Dont answer the call if its important they will leave a voicemail then block the number and report them to police,i get cold called every day then dont answer they get the message.but always report them.
The NHS is not strict with their approach to privacy. I frequently get calls that turn out to be from the local hospital that are from withheld numbers, the caller doesn't identify but launches into questions about my personal information. All my prescription medicine labels have not only my name but also my date of birth -when collecting they never ask for my date of birth to confirm identity and even if they did, they could keep that information of the packaging, which ends up in the bin.
I used to get scammers calling on my landline claiming to be the bank. When I tell them the bank only have my mobile number on file they hang up. I still get 3 or 4 scam emails a day, but the filter puts them in the junk folder.
Talk to them ,l do winds them up ,,like press your windows key ,,,,oh you want keys for your windows my son fitted mine really safe ,,,,,pay back scammed on YT ,,,great ideas
I don’t buy online, or do deals at the door. The landline is going next week when I go over to the new fibre set up. I don’t click any links and block whatsapps from businesses and strangers and yet it’s so stressful.
What age range is the elderly in your view? Most people I know are 70+ and are very savvy about this kind of fraud. The ones I know personally who’ve been caught out are in their 40s.
Never have more than 20p in my account so it makes me PML when I get a scam saying someone has spent hundreds of pounds on phone/travel/fridge 😂😂😂😂 Good luck with that!!
The last scam call I had was the "your computer has been sending them errors and warnings mesages". I told him that it was time to get a new script. He muttered something in a foreign language and disappeared.
That happened to me the other day, my landline phone rang. Because he asked for me using my middle name too, and he had a Scottish accent, he spoke well , I thought initially , it was a genuine call. Apparently my bank card had been used in two other cities. The scammer will keep asking if anyone could have used the card, have you lost it, did you make any unusual payments. This sets you thinking only of what you have been doing recently. Anyway, I knew definitely it was a scam when he asked me to log into my bank account. Of course I refused as I know how scammers work. I can see how it would easily fool someone who didn't know. Yes, I am one of 'the elderly' at 75 years old, but I don't have a TV, I spend far too much time watching RUclips !
I run a small business and as a Limited Company my contact details are publicly available. I had an e.mail recently looking like a GOV website asking me to click on a link to verify my VAT registration details. I am not VAT registered. Its a scam. Beware.
👍 Xmas time especially.
I had a letter from HMRC stating i hadn’t kept up with my repayments which was not true because everything is a standing order where a payment is never missed! I did however call a weird number that was on the letter, which the people answering were putting me through different lines. I called the actual hmrc who said to ignore the letter and everything was good in terms of payment and no letter was issued.
The only landline calls I get are either from one friend or are scammers.
If I don't recognise the number I ignore them
We have a landline if we don't know the number we don't answer .
Even if you saw the familiar phone number and the correct ID name, it still can be the scammer! AI can clone anything these days! Do Beware!
And we are all going expected to do everything on line especially the elderly 🤬🤬🤬
Thank you! ❤
Had the mobile phone call scam kept them online for 30 minutes ,record for landline is 45 minutes ,,,, great asking daft questions
I've seen a few of these scams, and I just block and report them.
Who do you report them to as I get lots of these?
@@tangorhumba3777: U can report any fraud to ur phone's network so whenever u block a phone number it should give u the option to report it and u could also report them to ur local police station
I had an email from Fedex saying i needed to pay import duty on a delivery that was in transit from Italy, they would pay it on my behalf but i would have pay now! I did have a delivery from Italy LAST week delivered from Fedex,postage was paid when i bought it. I deleted the email!
I always forward text message onto the scam people.Never just delete as it will keep going around
I do not know if this has already been suggested. For an elderly person with a landline, get them an answer machine. Scammers rarely leave a message but a family member or friend will.
REPORT TO ACTION FRAUD.
Exactly
Excatly
They are a waste of time as to many crimes are reported they cant keep up.
Nothing will happen. I never heard anything from them. Waste of time
😂😂😂😂😂😂 useless
That advice with a card next to the landline is worthless as many scammers make their victims call them. A scammer leaving a number and the old person later calling them is not protected. They will fleece the poor pensioner.
This is great, creating awareness but… you forgot to mention those money robbing ITV competitions, Win that car etc… my mother run up a huge phone bill, considering the chances of winning are zero, praying on vulnerable people. Including the poor and elderly who fall pray!
Shes the one that said nobody has a microwave anymore 😂
It's fun winding them up! 😂
My dad used to do that! He had scammers on the hook for weeks sometimes. 😂
I rich cousin with 1 billion euro. Please give sort code, BIC and IBAN 🙃🙃🙃😂
@@marcellaoreilly2730 ok 😂
@@andypalin3287 that’s always my reply 🤷♀️😭😂 x
And they can clone your voice, using it against you. Not clever.
I am a Norwegian woman and I can speak fluent English anytime, but when I get a scammer on my phone I choose to speak Norwegian and pretend I don't understand English 😂 They give up very quickly.
i had a paypal scam today when trying to sell some work watch out people
I don't trust store cards wanting personal details
I've seen the postal scam.....ignored it
biggest scam watching this morning lol
I had a couple of texts supposedly from Royal Mail asking me to click on a link last month. As I was actually expecting something from abroad I was in two minds but fortunately my phone flagged it as a potential scam.
i phone has a (block and report) option.
Biggest scam ever?
Politics
Thank god I got rid of my landline. I had so many random spam calls from Amazon, Microsoft, HMRC, Dell, a random bank, police...etc, sometimes close to midnight 😂
Me too!
Same, only ever scam calls, i never used to answer my landline it always went to answer phone, and sometimes a robot would leave me a message lol. got rid of me landline years ago.
@stevenc5227 I tried setting that up, but it never worked, so I gave up 😅
@@DDSizeBra Depends on your system, i used to set mine to answer phone only, i think you can set them to ring a number of times before going to answer phone, very rare that anyone rang my landline, except for scammers.
Get an answerphone if you have a landlines. Majority of scam calls will end the call before the message prompt. You can vet all your calls without needing to answer the call, so can ask advice from another family member if your not sure.
I got a winter payment one and deleted it qs i couldn't understand it (it was written weirdly)
I got a similar nationwide one but i called the actual nationwide number to be safe they confirmed it was them and someone had my details
Im glad i didnt assume though
That would give them away, the spelling !
Alice is good, but she doesn't understand how much worse those Facebook quiz things are than she thinks. They have access to all the info you've added to your FB profile that was set to higher visibility than "Only Me", but even worse than that, they can scrape all of the info that all of your friends have set on their profiles with visibility of "Friends". So every time you do a dumb quiz, you're exposing all of your friends info that you're able to see.
No Facebook, TicToc, WhatsApp, Instagram etc and not at all Interested.
Email fills up with junk and is deleted.
Online banking used so every transaction is notified immediately.
My bank never phones me even when they blocked my account and I spent an hour at the branch sorting it out before switching banks......😮
Best idea for scammers is to have an intervention like closing down accounts, it's that easy.
Rule of thumb if it’s via text; not legit x
Not necessarily I receive legitimate texts from my bank
iphone 4 lolol cant even get that right
My BT broadband went down some years ago. I reported this to what I believe was a call centre in India. What followed was an elaborate scam, I almost fell for it but became suspicious and shut it down. What followed was an abusive and foul mouthed phone call. The parasite got nothing.
Every other day I receive calls telling me about an accident that I never had any ideas how to deal with this kinda of situation please, thanks
I have a feeling when ordering on computer from, ebay, somebody might be hacking ebay, because on some occasions after ordering a text comes on phone, about clicking a Link which i never do, when they claim they were no able to deliver your parcel.
I don't accept cookies. END OF!
Not even functional cookies ?
You need some cookies for the platform to function effectively 😐
One you need to know about is Vinted fake sellers because there's alot most upload after 10pm always buy from people who have feedback and look if they have the same background on each item there selling because if they have different backgrounds for around 10 items there selling its a fake listing
Thanks for the tip!
100 glad I'm not alone in noticing it
With vinted everyone stars somewhere and everyone started with no reviews so saying only buy from people with feedback is unfair to new sellers who have only just started and not sold anything
A scammer once asked me for my name and address so I told him my name is James Bond and my address is 10 Downing Street. The dumb clown entered it in his database and must have subsequently sold it to some other scammers. I now get calls from scammers thinking that I'm Mr James Bond. No, I have not made this up. It's completely true!
Why dont the police stop them ?
1:21 Is it heck!
If they speak with a heavy Indian accent - BEWARE !!!!
That would be all of them then🤣
Watch out target Christmas call scam
WOW HOLD ON WHY AIN'T STARMER ON THIS LIST
I get phone calls from all over the country and abroad I never answer how do I stop them
You know we didn't have these problems before the invention. Of cash/credit cards. Be brave and shop using money or the old fashioned cheque where you can. Is progress killing us?
Bring the irish scam catcher man back on he was full of informantion a legend he works with others to stop theses and tracks them down..he was on (undercover) jim browning hes on youtube and this morning website
I’ve had the parking fine twice now
5:57 iPhone 4 give away, they can keep it.
I phone 4 🤣😂
I got mine the other day
Alice looks lush ❤
I have a landline and if I do not recognise the number, I will not answer. I have names next to my numbers, so will answer them only! I also, have had emails from "Lloyds" I never reply to them.
‘AI’ technology can now clone phone numbers and names on caller ID these days! So don’t trust caller ID or voices you think is someone you know!!!😂
Why don't Indian or other governments do something about it. They know who is doing it in their country but ignore it.
Why do these programs keep promoting these problems when some people and that's not a few people have no one to do this too these people saying contact your relative etc have no one arggg
Stop using the Internet full stop other than RUclips to which I can sort of control
If an Asian sounding person with an English name calls you, end the call straight away.
Please, freeze the frame 0:33, look at Alice face on and tell me what it is that makes her (and many others) do their hair so that their head is in the shape of the tip of a man's plonker? Do they not realise what they look like? I've been seeing this for decades. Am I the only one who notices this? If I see someone with that style I have to walk away as I'm constantly laughing inside my head.
Or Sunak Cameron Truss Johnson world record scammer and useless Badenoch
I like Cat and I like Ben.
But do I like them presenting together? 🙄
When we cling to Jesus even death cannot part us. He overcame death and the grave when He hung from that cross at Calvery. We do nor need to fear death and the grave. We have been redeemed. 🙏 🙏
She should sack her hairdresser. 👎🏻
I like her hair