Scammers from my experience
- Fraud
- Card cloned from an Indian takeaway who was repeating the numbers back to me over the phone. Spent £2000 on hotels, temporary car insurance, lingerie, Wickes, fake payment websites
- Fake accounts
- Fake profiles of family members on Facebook chatting to me and pretending to be them
- Fake profiles on Instagram pretending to meet up
- Data collection
- Callers asking questions for a "household survey" which is really about targeting for later scam calls
- Callers pretending to be my mobile operator (they have the wrong one on record) and saying I needed a new SIM so they could get my address
- Fake sellers/buyers
- Fake buyers on Facebook Marketplace trying to get me to post things before sending money, also sending fake bank transaction data
- Fake tickets sellers on Twitter with highly convincing screen recordings of Ticketmaster - before the tickets are actually sent out (big ones are usually 1 week before, not months before)
- Friends who have been scammed
- A friend got scammed of £500 from trying to buy a drone on Facebook marketplace, it's completely unregulated so I don't use it anymore
- A friend had their phone stolen in London, snatched out of their hands by someone on a bike
