Fraud threat to millions of TalkTalk customers

This also happened in Somerset last week:

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/feb/27/threat-...

Keith

That's old news now.

I accept that the loss of the data is an old story.

But last week a 75 year old lost £1,600. Do you think that TT or Lloyds TSB are going to give the money back?

Keith

In reply to a post by keithwjones:

But last week a 75 year old lost £1,600. Do you think that TT or Lloyds TSB are going to give the money back?

Probably not, bank details were not stolen in the leak, so it's not really much different from random calls saying "Hello we are Microsoft, your PC is doomed and you need to pay us £299 to fix it".

In reply to a post by keithwjones:

But last week a 75 year old lost £1,600. Do you think that TT or Lloyds TSB are going to give the money back?

Having said that, banks can and do reverse charges in cases of obvious fraud. So they should definitely contact their bank ASAP.

Even without the TT breach, these calls can and do happen all the time. Companies sell your phone number on all the time

One of my relatives nearly lost £5000 a couple of months back.

See http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t...

Thanks Mike, that explains how they can do it.

Bottom line is that TT had a lot of data taken by one of their contractors last December. So the scammer already has a load of info.

Point of post is to make others aware that it is still happening..

Keith

In reply to a post by keithwjones:

Bottom line is that TT had a lot of data taken by one of their contractors last December. So the scammer already has a load of info.

Most scammers have quite a lot of information, the "Microsoft" scammers knew my details when they rang me. I played along with their scam in a virtual machine and I hung up when they asked me to load Paypal in a browser.

I then left the house, and when I came back I saw that they had tried to ring me literally dozens of times.

In the case of TalkTalk I believe the only extra piece of information gained was the account numbers. But then, I've never had a company verify their identity by reading back my account number.

I've just stopped another this morning in North Somerset.

Beware they are ringing people now.

If you hear the word Teamviewer - you will know you have a problem. They will work on people for over 2 hours.