Another Telephone Scam?

Topper

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Well I don't know this takes the biscuit, I had a call supposedly from Sky television in Bolton from an Asian sounding woman, and the phone display told me it was an international call stating that there had been a few problems with the rollout of the new cards and was my stb OK and she needed me to take the card out of my stb and read out the numbers to her. I challenged her to prove to me who she really was because I doubted her authenticity. She said she could give me my sky account number,

I replied how does that prove anything as I do not even know what my sky account number is, as she had confirmed my name and had telephoned my home number she obviously had my name and telephone number already but her request seemed unreasonable to me. When I again asked her to prove to me who she was she hung up, well it just goes to show that information is leaking around the world from servers all over the country and you have to be on one's guard. I can only assume they would somehow have take over my viewing card if I had given her the details and I would have been paying for the privilege of someone else watching on my basic subscription. What else could the call have been about as I am sure they would not be so unprofessional as to hang up...would they
 
Topper said:
What else could the call have been about as I am sure they would not be so unprofessional as to hang up...would they
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There are those companies that are trying to get a maintenance contract out of unsuspecting owners of Sky equipment by claiming they are insome way affiliated with them. The BBC Watchdog programme a year ago highlighted the methods used.
 
I think it's a CH suggests, another dodgy maintenance company, not much they can do with your card number, apart from using it later on to solicit even more information.:)
 
It will never happen to me :-thumbup

Don´t have no cards :-googly

It shows that You must be on Your toes all the time.

Them scammers get smarter by the minute
 
I still cannot understand why she thought Sky was in Bolton???? of all places, perhaps she has relatives there:-HoHo
 
Some of the earlier scam complaints.

_http://boakes.org/suspicious-bskyb-warranty-telesales/comment-page-1/#comments

Some useful info in there for anyone else who has had money-for-nothing taken out of their accounts.
 
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