Post by Geranium on Aug 14, 2016 5:31:58 GMT
OH got a letter purporting to come from Barclays Bank. It looked authentic, and he was asked to ring them re. his account. When he did, he was put through the usual rigmarole of 'press 1 for this or 2 for that' etc. It all seemed above board until they asked for part of his account number at which alarm bells rang - after he had done what they said!!!
He terminated the call and tried ringing Barclays immediately, who said the number in the letter was not theirs.
I suggested that he should check his account and stop the card immediately, which he did within minutes of the call.
Yesterday we took the letter into the bank and talked to a young man who checked the letter and confirmed it was a scam letter. He checked with their fraud department and 'they' had tried to find out if he still had his business account attached to the current one...the girl was suspicious as 'the voice sounded too young for a man of OH's age' so she sensibly refused to give out any info.
Fortunately, he had transferred most of the money from this account to a better one recently, or they would have cleaned him out.
Apparently once these scammers have enough info, they can access any accounts you might have including paypal, so please be aware that even an official looking letter can be a scam.
All this was reported to the Police.
He terminated the call and tried ringing Barclays immediately, who said the number in the letter was not theirs.
I suggested that he should check his account and stop the card immediately, which he did within minutes of the call.
Yesterday we took the letter into the bank and talked to a young man who checked the letter and confirmed it was a scam letter. He checked with their fraud department and 'they' had tried to find out if he still had his business account attached to the current one...the girl was suspicious as 'the voice sounded too young for a man of OH's age' so she sensibly refused to give out any info.
Fortunately, he had transferred most of the money from this account to a better one recently, or they would have cleaned him out.
Apparently once these scammers have enough info, they can access any accounts you might have including paypal, so please be aware that even an official looking letter can be a scam.
All this was reported to the Police.
