BeakyFord
TK Veteran
I received a call to my landline today, on answering the call I was greeted with an automated message saying that ‘I had missed a call from my internet provider & my net will be terminated in 24hrs/36hrs due to illegal activity, to speak to our technical rep press one’ or words to that effect, at this point I ended the call as I had not missed any calls & the msg didn’t identify myself or my internet provider by name so I assumed it was some kind of scam/fishing type call.
I ran the number through an internet search & that returned similar numbers as scam calls but nothing from the exact number that called me (01530345655). 30 minutes later I received another automated call again with the same message but from a different number (01918639754) so this time I phone my internet provider to see IF they were trying to contact me, on speaking directly with my net provider they confirmed they have no issues on their system relating to my account & no one had tried to contact me!
About an hour later I received a 3rd call from a different unknown number (01297266879), only this time when I picked up the receiver, I waited for the caller to speak first, I didn’t even say hello I simply remained silent waiting for someone to speak to me... the caller hung up & the line was cleared.
Official company calls to clients should state/identify who they are calling from at the beginning of the call. If they don’t then there is a good chance it’s a dodgy call. Common sense really but as common sense is apparently in short supply these day’s I thought I should share this post in case it helps anyone else!
I ran the number through an internet search & that returned similar numbers as scam calls but nothing from the exact number that called me (01530345655). 30 minutes later I received another automated call again with the same message but from a different number (01918639754) so this time I phone my internet provider to see IF they were trying to contact me, on speaking directly with my net provider they confirmed they have no issues on their system relating to my account & no one had tried to contact me!
About an hour later I received a 3rd call from a different unknown number (01297266879), only this time when I picked up the receiver, I waited for the caller to speak first, I didn’t even say hello I simply remained silent waiting for someone to speak to me... the caller hung up & the line was cleared.
Official company calls to clients should state/identify who they are calling from at the beginning of the call. If they don’t then there is a good chance it’s a dodgy call. Common sense really but as common sense is apparently in short supply these day’s I thought I should share this post in case it helps anyone else!