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Minkey

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This morning I had a message left on my mobile phone telling me that my NI number had been used fraudulently and that I should ring the Ministry of Justice on the given No immediately or face the consequences.:confundio:
 

derek kelly

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I bet there’s a block on the call number, if they left a number for you to ring ignore it & go onto the moj website, if there is a traceable number on your phone google it to see if it’s spam.

Thinking about it I’m wondering why the moj would get involved with a dept of employment issue, doesn’t seem right to me.
 

johnboy

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This morning I had a message left on my mobile phone telling me that my NI number had been used fraudulently and that I should ring the Ministry of Justice on the given No immediately or face the consequences.:confundio:
99.9% it's a scam, stay well away from it.
 

Cougar377

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This morning I had a message left on my mobile phone telling me that my NI number had been used fraudulently and that I should ring the Ministry of Justice on the given No immediately or face the consequences.:confundio:

Why would the MOJ have your mobile number...? As Derek pointed out, it's not an MOJ area of interest, more like HMRC.
Google the phone number.
 

T.C

Been there, and had one
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It is a scam that has been doing the rounds for a while in addition to HM Customs and excise and the tax man.

People think that being the "MoJ" it must be serious just as they think stuff from Customs & Excise is genuine.

MoJ would have no interest in a NI issue

The reality is that these departments neither have or have any interest in obtaining your mobile numbers and will write to you properly rather than by text, phone or email.

As mentioned, if you are concerned contact the MoJ via an external source and report what has occured, but don;'t give it any more thought.
 

andyBeaker

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Scam.

End of.

:(


Came across another one yesterday - my Onkyo remote packed up, found an 'Onkyo' website with online chat help, the chat was with a 'technical assistant' who gave some odd responses (presumably automated) then said they would pass me on to a technician at a cost of £5 which was fully refundable ..can I have your credit card details please.....

It really looked like a genuine site.

On the bright side I managed to figure out how to reset the remote to factory setting and all is now well.

Which is nice.
 

Pow-Lo

Make civil the mind, make savage the body.
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If you get a call from a number that you have the slightest inkling is dodgy, do an internet search on 'who called me' and the chances are you'll find it's a scam.

This is one of the many sites that you can enter a number: https://who-called.co.uk/
 

derek kelly

The Deli lama
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I got a couple of missed calls on my iPhone last week, looked like a Manchester number but at the side of the number it said “Russia” the phone numbers were almost identical but with the last couple of digits swapped round
 

Lee337

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They're getting more crafty with the scam call numbers.

I received a call on my home phone yesterday at 13.42. checked the number as I was going to google it but it looked very familiar.

Apparently I called myself on my home phone from my home phone number.

Never seen that one before.
 

Malone

Been there, and had one
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We don’t use our home phone, it’s only there for the broadband and so everyone calls us on our mobiles.

When the home phone rings it’s a scam 99.99% of the time, more often than not it’ll be a computer generated call. If so then if it gives a number I’ll bar it. If it’s a human being I’ll talk to them. If it’s one of few that are actually a fair reason for calling then I’ll be nice and polite.

For those others, then especially if English is clearly their second or third language, I will educate them with as many new Anglo Saxon niceties as I can before they hang up :firedevil:
 

Cougar377

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We don’t use our home phone, it’s only there for the broadband and so everyone calls us on our mobiles.

When the home phone rings it’s a scam 99.99% of the time, more often than not it’ll be a computer generated call. If so then if it gives a number I’ll bar it. If it’s a human being I’ll talk to them. If it’s one of few that are actually a fair reason for calling then I’ll be nice and polite.

For those others, then especially if English is clearly their second or third language, I will educate them with as many new Anglo Saxon niceties as I can before they hang up :firedevil:
That's why we bought one of those BT Call Guardian phones. Works a treat.
 

Duck n Dive

Rebel without a clue ...
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Few months ago I had a call on my mobile from my banks fraud dept.

Said they'd seem some suspect transactions being attempted on my account, asked if I recently bought anything in Gloucester area.
I said no, then they said had to go through some security details with me before taking further action.

I told them I don't give out personal information over the phone. They reassured me and asked me to confirm that the number they were ringing from matched the security/fraud number listed on the back of my card - it did.

I still declined, went and used a land line to call my bank fraud line,they confirmed it wasn't them and there had been no suspicious activity on the account.

They went on to say that the fraudsters were now spoofing the various banks fraud lines.

The original call was very, very calm, professional and believable. Not an obviously "off shore" call and sounded really genuine.

I can see you many could easily be taken in.
 

andyBeaker

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Few months ago I had a call on my mobile from my banks fraud dept.

Said they'd seem some suspect transactions being attempted on my account, asked if I recently bought anything in Gloucester area.
I said no, then they said had to go through some security details with me before taking further action.

I told them I don't give out personal information over the phone. They reassured me and asked me to confirm that the number they were ringing from matched the security/fraud number listed on the back of my card - it did.

I still declined, went and used a land line to call my bank fraud line,they confirmed it wasn't them and there had been no suspicious activity on the account.

They went on to say that the fraudsters were now spoofing the various banks fraud lines.

The original call was very, very calm, professional and believable. Not an obviously "off shore" call and sounded really genuine.

I can see you many could easily be taken in.
While not foolproof, most banks are waking up to the fact that they should have a password that a customer can check when speaking on the phone. The brighter banks started this some time ago...someone had a really great idea.....ahem....
 

ianrobbo1

good looking AND modest
Yvo is always getting hacked and odd phone calls, she even gave out some of her bank details whilst I was sitting there, I couldn't believe it, so told her to hang up, she was so insistent, we ended up arguing before she finally checked, and it was a scam, now I've been known to get on some very odd sites, but to this day never been "hacked/scammed" may be the luck of the drawer, or they know I've no money so don't bother me!!o_O:rolleyes:
 

derek kelly

The Deli lama
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Few months ago I had a call on my mobile from my banks fraud dept.

Said they'd seem some suspect transactions being attempted on my account, asked if I recently bought anything in Gloucester area.
I said no, then they said had to go through some security details with me before taking further action.

I told them I don't give out personal information over the phone. They reassured me and asked me to confirm that the number they were ringing from matched the security/fraud number listed on the back of my card - it did.

I still declined, went and used a land line to call my bank fraud line,they confirmed it wasn't them and there had been no suspicious activity on the account.

They went on to say that the fraudsters were now spoofing the various banks fraud lines.

The original call was very, very calm, professional and believable. Not an obviously "off shore" call and sounded really genuine.

I can see you many could easily be taken in.
Banks will contact you but won’t ask for personal info, they will tell you to ring the number on the back of your card.
 
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