I do not know if this has been aired before, but it was new to me.
Another scam doing the rounds. A delivery company calls and asks if you are going to be in as they have a parcel for you. Within the hour a driver appears with a basket of flowers and a bottle of wine, no idea who it's from but there is going to be a card to follow. He asks for £3.40 so he can prove the delivery has been made to an adult as there is alcohol in it. He can't take cash as the transaction has to be prove able so he produces a hand held card reader. You put your card in and type the PIN and get a receipt from the machine for £3.40. A couple of days later your account has been cleaned out. Clever and affective. Unless you know who it is from beware of unexpected deliveries. Pass it around folks the more who know the harder it is for the scum.
Probably is a hoax. Never heard of this myself, plus its far too elaborate and risky. Anyone who uses Facebook will know that each day there is a new scam warning hoax, and its amazing how many people believe them.
Yes Facebook is now extremely tedious as people constantly share this trash. If people stuck to only responding to friends' personalised status updates, photos and films rather than all the "liked", "please watch" and "so funny" statuses that are constantly passed on it would all die a death.
Be warned that lots of these things have viruses embedded in them.
I've not heard of that before, but it has all the ingredients for a hoax. Far too intricate for it to be a real threat, although if it happens to me, I shall be sure to enjoy the wine and flowers. :-)
------------- 47 and only just learned how to work a sleeping bag
But why would you pay to receive a gift?????? Lot of these things are common sense .
I work in a supermarket and an older friend of ours sent me an email and told me to be careful when paying for things as checkout people are adding cash back to the bill and pocketing the money. I sent an email back saying they can't do this without you knowing as the cash back is entered BEFORE you put your pin in. Always check the amount before you enter your pin, I bet most people don't!
Quote: Originally posted by Xantippe on 12/8/2013I do not know if this has been aired before, but it was new to me.
Another scam doing the rounds. A delivery company calls and asks if you are going to be in as they have a parcel for you. Within the hour a driver appears with a basket of flowers and a bottle of wine, no idea who it's from but there is going to be a card to follow. He asks for £3.40 so he can prove the delivery has been made to an adult as there is alcohol in it. He can't take cash as the transaction has to be prove able so he produces a hand held card reader. You put your card in and type the PIN and get a receipt from the machine for £3.40. A couple of days later your account has been cleaned out. Clever and affective. Unless you know who it is from beware of unexpected deliveries. Pass it around folks the more who know the harder it is for the scum.
Kris
The origins of this scam are based on truth BUT from 2008 in Sydney, Australia, the culprits being caught and serving a jail sentence.
While it has been tried in various places around the world since, this hoax email has been winging its way around the internet since 2012 and is just another form of chain letters.
Quote: Originally posted by girlwomble on 13/8/2013
I don't need a scam to clear out my bank account. My camping addiction does this for me without having to be scammed
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