Check out the website called ‘who called me’ it lists lots of the current scam numbers.

https://who-called.co.uk/

TonyP

Quote: Randa france wrote in post #1

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Today, the following happened to me, twice. All the responses to this question agreed it was a scam so beware.

Zitat

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Phone calls regarding Internet being "compromised"
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Today I took one phone call from a call centre in India and a second one with an American accented digitised voice saying that my Internet connection had been compromised. The second call which was from phone number 01246 384 682 said that my Internet connection "was going to be cut off within the next 24 to 48 hours".

Are these calls genuine or not?

Please advise.

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In my case, they wished for me to log into my computer so that they could prove that they were genuine. Yea, yea,

BT say that any internet connection faults are not logged by them, they rely on us to tell them.

Randa

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We leave our answer phone on 24/7 and only answer if we know the number. 9 times out of 10 they hang up !

Ditto to the answerphone, it works.

I solved these nuisance calls by having my landline removed a few months ago. Mobile with the right package much cheaper.

"Mobile with the right package much cheaper"

I agree if you're a light internet user. If you stream TV or films, a landline is cheaper at today's prices.

Quote: Williebraveheart wrote in post #8

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I solved these nuisance calls by having my landline removed a few months ago. Mobile with the right package much cheaper.

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Hullo! I am calling from Microsoft Technical department, you have a serious fault ..

Oh! How awful, what shall I do?

Please turn on your computer and I will tell you what to do.....

Now, where is the on/off switch? Ah! There, it's warming up nicely, what's next?

Please type the following into the search bar...ksd-b-lkjsd-bvfbg-lkg-etc and press return.

Should I set it to 'Chicken' of 'Fish', and for how long?

I beg your pardon, Sir?

Which programme should I use?

I don't understand, this is the Microsoft Technical department...

I'm glad you called, I keep boiling over my milk, it makes an awful mess, don't you know......

CLICK..

Great Fun!

https://youtu.be/DxxAwDHgQhE

When we moved, we packaged our existing Vodafone mobile contract (8gb data), with unlimited broadband which uses the BT landline, the cost of which is absorbed by Vodafone, leaving us paying £35 a month. BT would be £50 a month for landline plus broadband. It was a no brainier for us. We can plug a phone in if we wanted but haven't bothered as we get good mobile signal here.

I use plusnet for broadband only. For calls they charge a minimum of £0.135 per minute plus a connection charge of £0.22
I have a 'home' mobile on 1pmobile which I use for all calls. £0.01 per minute with no connection charge and no contract. I think it's probably the best rate for most low users. High users can benefit from a contract and ultra low users could use Three's 123 tariff.

were told to ring action fraud, and report. scams.
but most importantly don't give any info to the scammer and end the call asap.