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I'm jetting off to Dallas in April to see the eclipse and booked my hotel via Expedia, so I was very alarmed to get an email purporting to be from Expedia saying my hotel booking had been cancelled. A quick check showed that the reference number did not match but everything else did - hotel...

@Gibbo please get rid of it. I was speccing up a PC for another thread and encountered this garbage when looking at my basket. It significantly detracts from OCUK - if you don't stand by the stuff you sell, why should I buy from you? Generally this sort of insurance is well-known to be a...

I've been watching Tinder Swindler and Dirty John looking for similar cases in the UK. Has anyone heard anything about this woman - Juliette D'Souza. I wouldn't be surprised if she had an international trail of some sort. I find confidence scammers so fascinating...

The young daughter of a former colleague has got a certificate from them to say that she's been talent-spotted and to contact them for more info. The website checks out and putting them through Google search doesn't bring up anything untoward. But my antennae are twitching. Am I being too...

The other day I got the text below: I was expecting something and it was the sort of thing to be delivered by Hermes. I've checked on who-calls.me.uk and the number has been searched a few times (but is likely spoofed anyway). And I checked the package tracking and it said it was being...

I had two separate calls earlier this morning (to my work mobile) from two different 0207 numbers (02073126617 and 02078946074) which started off with an automated call stating a criminal investigation was being opened by the HMRC due to tax fraud. The message then states to push 1 to find out...

So... recently thought I was getting a very slight bargain from a random seller on Shpock for a 2080ti second hand, or at least I thought I had. I actually received a big pile of paper...yep proper scammed. The guy had couriered me a massive pile of paper, presumably for the postage thing for...

So I run a bunch of VMs for software development purposes and it would be useful to have Windows installed on a couple of them. The problem is that each install requires its own licence and these are expensive. You can sort of work around that by installing Windows and just resetting it over and...

Ever since the EU's General Data Protection Regulations came in I receive a couple of scam emails every day along the following lines: There is no indication as to what useless service I should unsubscribe from and as it happens I just delete them without opening but I do wonder how many people...

Guys, i`ve paid a lot of money on a Nvidia Titan Xp Collector's Edition Galactic Empire on No competitors and after a month the card started to behave in a really strange way, the displayport started to fail, sometimes i had to restart a few times before showing any image. Couple days later, it...

They've had their account since April. I'm just wondering if I should try to cancel it or not? Everyone starts on 0% feedback and most people aren't scammers. I'm not in any hurry to sell really and there's other people ineterested. Value is about £130

This is severely edited. Am an NHS patient & support the NHS. I post here because I cannot find a public NHS forum. Six months ago I visited a new dentist with a troublesome long-ago crowned tooth. The tooth was x-rayed and the root pronounced decayed and dead. I was told it must be taken out...

Hi guys, I had a phone call from my auntie earlier saying she had been called by someone claiming to be from AOL who said she needed to do something on her PC or they would disconnect her internet. I actually didn't think my auntie was with AOL anymore to be honest but she didn't seem to be...

I booked my MOT for today through an online MOT service who come and pick your car up and drop it off afterwards. I had heard they charged silly amounts if any work needed done but having prechecked I was fairly confident nothing major was wrong. So. I got a phone call saying that the car had...

I was looking at some dustfilter priced at 16.99, then i added it to my basket, and the price was bumped up to 17,70.. This made me lift my eyebrows, so i started to investigate my Pe, and i don't really feel great about my findings. Monsoon MMRS D5 Pump Cover - White : price on page 33.95. in...