johnpolo2 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2019 10:53 am
Oh well there's a whole new debate.. numbers cut and often too busy investigating who's been offended in person or online.
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More than a hint of truth there, our youngest daughter was across in Pittsburgh doing some presentation work for her company, we knew that she was taking her local support team out for drinks the last night prior to flying home to London, so, when my wife got a text at 09:00 UK time saying that everything was okay but she was in hospital with a broken femur and was getting operated on very soon - after falling down stairs, please buy me a £20 EE topup card - we believed it, not like her but possible as she was mainly using her boyfriend's new but still unused phone with a pay as you go card to back up her EE contract iphone which was giving trouble! Well, after her boyfriend in London, contacted her, ie wakened her up at maybe 04:00 Pittsburg time, I started trying to cancel that top up card - impossible EE just credited my EE mobile bill, we contacted the local police,which is what you should do to report all scams it seems, and thought no more about it.
Six months on, after an initial police visit, we are still getting monthly updates - why don't the police association approach central government to try to stop this happening instead of trying to locate someone, somewhere in the world, who actually was responsible for sending out that message, letting any scammer or terrorist buy phone SIM cards without prove of identity is not really smart.