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    Elderly hit by new telephone scam

    Elderly hit by new telephone scam

    This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 28th August 2013 11:24.

    *A fraud watchdog warns of a rise in a new form of telephone scam, which has already cost vulnerable people £7m. * Still old hat, but this still...

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    Tags: bank, complaints, courier, debt, elderly, fraud, investigators, life, mat, people, rise, savings, scam, size, support, telephone, telephone scam, victims, vulnerable, watchdog, windows, withdraw
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    Re: Elderly hit by new telephone scam

    H'MMMM! We are gripped in the latest round of the scam by "The Windows Support Team" who have received "complaints" about our computers. Oh Really? They soon clear off when I tell them we have reported matters to Microsoft's fraud investigators.

    regards
    G

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      Re: Elderly hit by new telephone scam

      In some circumstances, victims are being persuaded to go into their bank, withdraw their life savings and then hand them over to a courier who arrives at their front door later in the day
      Good grief, i've heard it all now!
      When Gold isn't enough, there is SA Gold! New to the forum and find the UE route a bit scary? Take a look at my diary here and judge for yourself. I am now saving the money each month that was making little difference to the balance and not a bit of difference to my credit file as a result of finding AAD.


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