We Received yesterday a HMRC e mail stating our car had entered a restricted area a week ago with a time and date stating we had not paid the fee and therefore we had a fine of £60 if paid in 12 days rising to £90 thereafter.. There was a link to pay it there and then.. OK we realised it was a scam but think of the number of elderly who may have paid up? another friend got one regarding car tax and, her road tax is due at the end of this month so that got her worried for a bit too.. beware ... X
I’ve received calls from ‘HMRC’ recently saying I need to settle my account today of be prepared to face the legal consequences! Latest ones are from a London number, when I answer they are convinced I’ve recently been involved in a RTA. I like to have fun with these guys and pretend I’m in the dentists chair having my teeth removed or that they have opened old wounds sending me to a dark place, undoing all the good work my psychiatrist has put in since my terrible accident. They usually hang up!
I once strung them along for about 15 minutes answering their questoons until they asked for the actual date of the accident, I hummed and haa-ed and finally said I was sure it was June, yes June as it was my mate Gary's birthday in 1986 - the phone went dead.....
For the phone calls, just whisper "It's done" and hang up. Or "It's done, but there was a lot of blood".
My friend received one for £13.46 to be paid for being parked on a road illegally The £13.46 told me it wasn’t real
Received an official looking Email from DVLA yesterday that looked authentic requesting an update on my license details! I obviously didn't click on the link but thought it will catch some out!
i know it’s a little off topic but.. Many years back now opened the front door in a rush and not knowing who was on the other side. On doing so was greeted by two ladies, Jehovah Witnesses, normally it’s a struggle to get rid as i’m sure your aware but, we were going to a friends fancy dress later that night and Mrs N was practicing my look, or butchers, which was fittingly at the time that of a Devil with heavy black around the eyes and red smeared lipstick plus little red horns, all i was wearing at the time were a pair of shorts so it obv was a little surprising for them it must be said.. i’d assumed it was one of my mates at the door who i played golf with at the time, he was due round ( late as ever) to give us a price for some building work on the house.. After the two ladies had kind of recovered one asked me “ has god found you today my dear?” As i’m sure you know religion is not for me other than the claret and blue kind but for once thinking on my feet and dearly wishing to get rid of these two and back to make up i said, “ would you care to step inside “ and even before i’d got to the next line they were both smiling at me obv delighted to have such an usual welcome. However, then the second line sort of came out too, which meant the full line would have instead been.. “ Would you care to step inside for a moment? i’m sorry but i’ve got someone in my Dungeon presently and what with time being money etc!” All i can say is i’ve never seen a bible slam shut so quickly and two muttering ladies ( i think they were asking someone for forgiveness on my behalf ) disappear out the gate... ok i must admit it i do dress that way of a weekend normally it’s true, as i’m sure that’s what you were thinking.. x
Had one from a scammer trying to tell me a DHL parcel I had not posted needed paying for. A link (which I did not open) attached to “ update my details and credit card” Hovered over the e mail address and some obscure name appeared. Also had a few interesting conversations, with the you have had an accident brigade on the phone. I now see how long I can keep them talking before they hang up.
mine was unpluggelled a couple of years ago now.. just got fed up of being harassed night and day by ladies requesting dates with me.. Yawn .. zzz ZZZ ZzZ etc etc .. X
With the car crash/personal injury cold calls from ambulance chasers, I like to answer all their questions unti lthey connect me with a lawyer, and then when they ask what my injury was I tell them I died.
When I get those “we’re calling about the accident you were involved in” calls, if I have time and can be bothered, I sometimes mess with them by pretending I think they’re referring to a hit and run and I start going on about how I’ve lived with the guilt for 18 months now, it’s a relief to finally unburden myself and I hope the other person didn’t die but I wasn’t sure they were breathing when I drove off etc etc. Another time I strung one along for about 5 minutes telling her about an accident that I suffered in northern Italy, but I was basically describing what happened when Ayrton Senna crashed at Imola
I often get as far as being asked who I blame for the accident and say "I blame the Police, they were chasing me in my car. I say my car, the one I'd stolen" or when asked to describe the circumstances start with "I was just leaving the pub, I was technically over the limit but I was fine"
