Scam payment

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berlintaxi

8,535 posts

172 months

Saturday 27th February 2021
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mcdjl said:
I recieve enough of these type of emails that sometimes when bored i bait them to occupy their time and reduce the odds of them having time to get money from someone. I also leave lines from accident claim calls open for the same reason.
Wow, I bet the hours really drag by in your house.

Countdown

39,689 posts

195 months

Saturday 27th February 2021
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mcdjl said:
I may have recently recieved an email from a scammer asking for payment. I may have responded to them asking for an incoming transfer of £10 to confirm the account and given them the details of an empty savings account that can't make direct external payments. It may now have £10 in.
What's the right thing to do? Part of me thinks screw the scammer I'll keep the cash, but intend to tell the bank and or police. Anyone else?
I'm confused - which/whose account details were you trying to confirm?

You already know your bank account details. You won't know the details of the account that sent you the money.

confused

neutral 3

6,356 posts

169 months

Saturday 27th February 2021
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Lol.

dxg

8,121 posts

259 months

Saturday 27th February 2021
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You're in for a fun time.

You're now in the "gullible" list to be traded between scammers...

mcdjl

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5,438 posts

194 months

Saturday 27th February 2021
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Countdown said:
I'm confused - which/whose account details were you trying to confirm?

You already know your bank account details. You won't know the details of the account that sent you the money.

confused
I don't know either really, I just didn't expect someone to put money into an empty account for me. I was never going to send them money.
dxg said:
You're in for a fun time.

You're now in the "gullible" list to be traded between scammers...
The more people that want to send me money the better!

jondude

2,335 posts

216 months

Saturday 27th February 2021
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Are you sure the tenner is available? (That is, cleared)


Is one of the most successful scams I think, where they say you are entitled to a sum then transfer say £400 too much and ask for that back. The victim does that as they see the amount in bank , hear they are only being asked for the overpayment and not the other thousands.....but it is then cancelled before it can be cleared

Could be with this amount though that they have decided to risk it as they thought you were hooked.

mcdjl

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5,438 posts

194 months

Sunday 28th February 2021
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It appears to be there for use....I suspect they sent it as bait hoping for the rest. They've not followed up asking for the rest of the money since yesterday. Mind you I've not heard anything from the banks/action fraud either.

mcdjl

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5,438 posts

194 months

Tuesday 30th March 2021
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To update this, i now have an additional £25 from my bank for now being communicative enough, and email from the originating bank saying what do you want us to do and an email from action fraud saying, nothing we can do.
So I'm £35 up as the result of an attempted scam. I do feel for whoever the original £10 came from....if it wasn't just the scammer that is.

poo at Paul's

14,116 posts

174 months

Tuesday 30th March 2021
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You're awesome

mcdjl

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5,438 posts

194 months

Tuesday 30th March 2021
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poo at Paul's said:
You're awesome
How did you know? Its clearly not because of this minor story, so do i know you in real life?

BertBert

18,953 posts

210 months

Tuesday 30th March 2021
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mcdjl said:
To update this, i now have an additional £25 from my bank for now being communicative enough, and email from the originating bank saying what do you want us to do and an email from action fraud saying, nothing we can do.
So I'm £35 up as the result of an attempted scam. I do feel for whoever the original £10 came from....if it wasn't just the scammer that is.
Probably being dense, but what does that mean?

mcdjl

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5,438 posts

194 months

Tuesday 30th March 2021
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BertBert said:
Probably being dense, but what does that mean?
I email their phishing team, direct/secure messaged them and tweeted them multiple times with no response. They then decided that one of my emails was a complaint so phoned me up and gave me £25 for not letting me know what they were doing about it.

InvisibleSpider

158 posts

158 months

Tuesday 30th March 2021
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mcdjl said:
I email their phishing team, direct/secure messaged them and tweeted them multiple times with no response. They then decided that one of my emails was a complaint so phoned me up and gave me £25 for not letting me know what they were doing about it.
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B'stard Child

28,321 posts

245 months

Tuesday 30th March 2021
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InvisibleSpider said:
mcdjl said:
I email their phishing team, direct/secure messaged them and tweeted them multiple times with no response. They then decided that one of my emails was a complaint so phoned me up and gave me £25 for not letting me know what they were doing about it.
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Superb - who'd have thunk it - Banks giving away money

poo at Paul's

14,116 posts

174 months

Tuesday 30th March 2021
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mcdjl said:
poo at Paul's said:
You're awesome
How did you know? Its clearly not because of this minor story, so do i know you in real life?
No, it was the copious use of the word "may" in the opening post, which means one cannot help but read the whole lot in an adenoidal tone in one's head.
You can buy another Loony Toons tie with that 35 quid.

PorkInsider

5,877 posts

140 months

Wednesday 31st March 2021
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BertBert said:
mcdjl said:
To update this, i now have an additional £25 from my bank for now being communicative enough, and email from the originating bank saying what do you want us to do and an email from action fraud saying, nothing we can do.
So I'm £35 up as the result of an attempted scam. I do feel for whoever the original £10 came from....if it wasn't just the scammer that is.
Probably being dense, but what does that mean?
I think the 'now' before 'being' was supposed to be 'not', in the bolded bit.

And I'm just glad I'm at my desk and being paid so technically these aren't completely wasted minutes of my life.


Edited by PorkInsider on Wednesday 31st March 09:43

mcdjl

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5,438 posts

194 months

Wednesday 31st March 2021
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PorkInsider said:
I think the 'now' before 'being' was supposed to be 'not', in the bolded bit.

And I'm just glad I'm at my desk and being paid so technically these aren't completely wasted minutes of my life.


Edited by PorkInsider on Wednesday 31st March 09:43
I saw you'd written thing earlier but didn't reply wink You're right, though it took me far to long to spot the second now (which was wrong) as opposed to the first one!

gamefreaks

1,955 posts

186 months

Wednesday 31st March 2021
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I'd be careful playing that game. (Much as I love the idea of scamming the scammers!)

If the bank does start investigating the scammer, you could have fraud/risk markers stored against you by the bank which in turn could result in your overdraft or credit card being pulled/closure of account.

I would hope that the account they paid into was not with the same bank you have your other accounts with.