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Scams: telephone, email, texts 2025

Vivienne14

Vivienne14

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This is a new thread for this current year,

Grateful if you could keep posts when reporting scams etc to the basic facts so that other members can quickly access information about them. Hopefully by so doing, we can help prevent members falling into the many online scams out there.

Thanks for your cooperation,
 
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Had this email today, Your courier is delivering your Ark Rubber and Resin parcel today. I haven`t ordered this so i`m not sure what to do when it arrives? Anyone else had this problem? Advice please.
 
Morturn said:
Lots of scam email messages about delivery that are not going to happen. Have a look at the Which Website here: https://www.which.co.uk/news/articl...-delivery-scams-to-watch-out-for-a5pjA7i3M52o

5 email scams to watch our for: https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/5-email-scams-to-watch-out-for-right-now-aYPQx0B8TEc1

Its a good idea too to sign up for the Which weekly scam alert, and keep yourself upto date: https://signup.which.co.uk/wlp-scamalert-newsletter
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Scams seem to be almost cyclical…my wife and I have been getting five or six phone scams daily this past week. In addition as in the article (from Mort) we also get many emails from UPS and the scary one: Norton. Unfortunately the so called authorities on both sides on the pond cannot or will not do anything!
 
Smudger said:
Had this email today, Your courier is delivering your Ark Rubber and Resin parcel today. I haven`t ordered this so i`m not sure what to do when it arrives? Anyone else had this problem? Advice please.
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We have found that those packages never arrive, the are looking for you to respond and engage in a conversation!
 
Morturn said:
Lots of scam email messages about delivery that are not going to happen. Have a look at the Which Website here: https://www.which.co.uk/news/articl...-delivery-scams-to-watch-out-for-a5pjA7i3M52o

5 email scams to watch our for: https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/5-email-scams-to-watch-out-for-right-now-aYPQx0B8TEc1

Its a good idea too to sign up for the Which weekly scam alert, and keep yourself upto date: https://signup.which.co.uk/wlp-scamalert-newsletter
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Thanks Mort, The `rubber resin` parcel arrived. Turns out to be the artificial grass I ordered & not rubber resin, no wonder I was confused (normal for me unfortunately)

My Wife has a habit of falling over so the grass should be a bit more forgiving than the concrete !
 
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