08080 000 144 - Rang me today claiming to be Vodafone, he was definately english and a lot of background noise, so i thought therefore may have been real. He asked if he was speaking to me, i confirmed and that if i could confirm my address and postcode, and asked me if i would like a new SIM from vodafone as im part of vodafone family, many people have said this is a scam and i need to let vodafone know if i have given my address away, i hung up after i gave my address as i said i wasnt interested as something wasn't right. Have i made an error or is this indeed genuine? thanks in advance.
Googled, but no real answers, dodgy number
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Agreed 1+
I saw that, but then I read this:
Anyway...if they are asking for your details whilst phoning you its a scam most of the time. You should never give details out when someone phones you up. Always phone them back with an official number.
Anyway...if they are asking for your details whilst phoning you its a scam most of the time. You should never give details out when someone phones you up. Always phone them back with an official number.
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And there you have it my friend, if it was a real call it would probably have been from "Ahkmed Ali" calling you flom india guy yes indeedy
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And there you have it my friend, if it was a real call it would probably have been from "Ahkmed Ali" calling you flom india guy yes indeedy
However, a lot of call centre staff have aliases which are English names
Anyways, call up Vodaphone and ask them
/Edit: I just did a bit of Googling myself and from the results, I think it is a scam... so it's a good thing you didn't give out any more information. Many posts by others on threads similar to yours on other forums mentioned that they asked the caller to confirm their details instead and they refused under the DPA - surely since they are calling the account holder (who the data is about) they can mention the details?
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I got rung by an Indian guy claiming to be from Direct Line and wanted to "renew" my car insurance on-line.
However, a lot of call centre staff have aliases which are English names
Anyways, call up Vodaphone and ask them
/Edit: I just did a bit of Googling myself and from the results, I think it is a scam... so it's a good thing you didn't give out any more information. Many posts by others on threads similar to yours on other forums mentioned that they asked the caller to confirm their details instead and they refused under the DPA - surely since they are calling the account holder (who the data is about) they can mention the details?
You can't give out information on an outbound phone call without being able to confirm that it is the account holder you are talking to. When I was working for RBS, there was a lot of training on fraud and the DPA, and this was one thing that came up. In the simplest of terms, you could have two people at the same address with the same name, and the only way to know you are speaking to the correct one is to ask for information from the person you are calling. For example, if you had the same name as your father but had accounts you didn't want him to know about, if he took a call instead of you and the DPA didn't stand here, the company could give him all the information about your "secret" accounts.
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Had the same number, they wanted to comfirm my password at which point i hung up!
Googled and found what Danger Phoenix said.
Googled and found what Danger Phoenix said.