The UK's fraud epidemic.

[SteveH]

I received a telephone call this morning from 01492594973 informing me there had been an attempt to take two payments out of my account but not which account. Then went on to ask me to press 1 for further assistance. I have had these calls before which turned out to be scams, but never from a local number which is worrying. On checking the number online all it's saying is it's a BT Landline located in Colwyn Bay. Has anyone else received one of these calls, or has anyone got a suggestion as to who I can report this too?

Meleri, here is one link .......... https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/news/scam-phone-call-warning


The above from Google search page, plus more below..........
https://www.google.com/search?q=who+do+you+report+suspicious+fraud+phone+calls&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB813GB813&oq=who+do+you+report+suspicious+fraud+phone+calls&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRifBdIBCjMwNjc5ajBqMTWoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[Ian]

I received a telephone call this morning from 01492594973 informing me there had been an attempt to take two payments out of my account but not which account. Then went on to ask me to press 1 for further assistance. I have had these calls before which turned out to be scams, but never from a local number which is worrying. On checking the number online all it's saying is it's a BT Landline located in Colwyn Bay. Has anyone else received one of these calls, or has anyone got a suggestion as to who I can report this too?

I would use Action Fraud, Meleri.

[Meleri]

Thanks very much Steve & Ian for your suggestions I will do that.

[Ian]

What you saw was an example of Number spoofing, Meleri, a technique which is seeing a rapid  rise at the moment.  It's simple to do and is making a fortune for scammers, particularly among the sufferers of Alzheimer's and other age-related memory issues. 

[Meleri]

I haven't heard of that before Ian, so thanks for letting me know very much appreciated.

[Ian]

Channel 5 has recently started re-running the Alexis Conran series on scam types. It can be streamed on My 5 and it's arguably the best anti-scam programme out there.