Anybody else had this?
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Has anyone else here experienced similar? If so, what did you do.
Got a phone call late last night. Person on the other end, who knew my name and ex-directory phone number, warning me that my car was going to be stolen and demanding cash (presumably to stop said car being stolen).
Not a voice I recognise and called from a withheld number. As far as I know I have not upset anyone, not lost any personal details (phone, wallet etc.) and it isn't the sort of prank that any of my friends would pull.
Needless to say I told person where to go and the car wasn't stolen (yet), and reported phone call to the police. Is this some sort of new scam and should I still be worried?
Got a phone call late last night. Person on the other end, who knew my name and ex-directory phone number, warning me that my car was going to be stolen and demanding cash (presumably to stop said car being stolen).
Not a voice I recognise and called from a withheld number. As far as I know I have not upset anyone, not lost any personal details (phone, wallet etc.) and it isn't the sort of prank that any of my friends would pull.
Needless to say I told person where to go and the car wasn't stolen (yet), and reported phone call to the police. Is this some sort of new scam and should I still be worried?
Sounds like an odd situation - maybe just a ploy to get people to send money without even having to move from the comfort of an armchair, you should have asked them when and how 
Although having said that, i'd probably remove everything that couldn't be claimed on insurance from the car for a little while....
Although having said that, i'd probably remove everything that couldn't be claimed on insurance from the car for a little while....
ingrowtn said:
Silverbullet767 said:
That's a new one to me, best put the car in the/a garage for a while??
It's a Range Rover and won't fit in the garage - partly because the RR won't go up the drive past the house to the garage and partly because the garage is mostly full of TR6.
bi9_jk said:
Clamp it for a while for peice of mind. Possibly think about getting a tracking device. Or possibly a trap of somekind. Now im not suggesting you do this of course but with a power source and some wire anyone trying to enter the car could find a nasty SHOCK. If you get my drift
Yeah, f*** yeah!Bear traps dude. Many of them. Also dig a hole. Pungee sticks too like back in 'nam. Chop up the bamboo sticks out of your back garden and sharpen them up good and put some rat poison on the end so when he gets near the car he falls in and gets impaled.
A week later he will be ringing you up asking why he cant feel his toes and why his legs have turned black.
Brett928S2 said:
Flintstone said:
Even if the number was witheld I'm pretty sure Telecom can trace the caller. Have you tried them?
Hi 
Yes Bt CAN trace the withheld number but only with Police authority to do so, or authority from various other agencies........
All the best Brett
whoever they are, they aren't very intelligent.
If it was from a phone box you wouldn't withhold the number, so it was either a mobile or home phone which basically identifies them, so the police will know exactly where to go.
They've no intention of nicking the car or they wouldn't have called first,
They've no chance of getting any money as you'd either have to send a cheque to somewhere or leave cash, where plod will be waiting to see who picks it up.
So, either idiots, or some mate having a laugh.
My money's on the mate.
If it was from a phone box you wouldn't withhold the number, so it was either a mobile or home phone which basically identifies them, so the police will know exactly where to go.
They've no intention of nicking the car or they wouldn't have called first,
They've no chance of getting any money as you'd either have to send a cheque to somewhere or leave cash, where plod will be waiting to see who picks it up.
So, either idiots, or some mate having a laugh.
My money's on the mate.
My number is ExD, and got BT to block withheld numbers.
All the marketing people vanished overnight.
He's also commiting an offence along the lines of the telephony act.
Report also to BT, and I believe they can deal in some respect.
I had a fairly harmless but very annoying situation a couple of years ago. At 6am EVERY morning an old woman would ring wanting to speak to 'Elsie'. I'd say that she had a wrong number, but every morning this would happen, which was pi**ing me off after 2 weeks. She would then get angry that I wasn't getting Elsie for her, and demamding to know what I'd done with her. Short of leaving the phone off the hook there wasn't anything I could do, until I called BT.
It happened once more then never happened again. Don't know what they did, but the problem went away.
All the marketing people vanished overnight.
He's also commiting an offence along the lines of the telephony act.
Report also to BT, and I believe they can deal in some respect.
I had a fairly harmless but very annoying situation a couple of years ago. At 6am EVERY morning an old woman would ring wanting to speak to 'Elsie'. I'd say that she had a wrong number, but every morning this would happen, which was pi**ing me off after 2 weeks. She would then get angry that I wasn't getting Elsie for her, and demamding to know what I'd done with her. Short of leaving the phone off the hook there wasn't anything I could do, until I called BT.
It happened once more then never happened again. Don't know what they did, but the problem went away.
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