Scum Scammers

Haggisman said:
Just had an interesting one, which I thought I'd give people a heads up on, since it was a lot more convincing than usual - I can easily see how someone less suspicious could fall for it:

Call from "Royal Mail" claiming I have a parcel waiting - normally wouldn't pay attention, but what I found a bit more convincing about this one was that along with having my full name, the caller was a quite well spoken young lady with a very convincing English accent, unlike the usual broken English with a strong foreign accent on a dodgy line with loads of background noise.

Apparently the parcel was in a depot in London - they gave me the option to collect it, or to arrange redelivery.

I was already sceptical by this point, but decided to play along and ask for delivery, at which point she asked for an email address to send the redelivery request instructions.

I gave her my throwaway address I use for spammy stuff, and sure enough, the email comes through, again with my full name on it, and very well formatted.

The most obvious giveaway was the sender address and URL for the link in the email, both pointing to "portmail.online", although there were a couple of less obvious errors as well:

The tracking number was obviously not valid
The company details in the footer weren't quite correct:

"Royal Mail Group Ltd. Wales, number 413224 Reg. Office : 100 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0HQ."

Pretty sure there's no "Royal Mail Group Ltd." registered in Wales (and if there was, why would the office be in London? :p)
The company number 413224 doesn't appear to be valid.

Anyway, she hung up pretty much straight away after I questioned the URL and originating email address.

I haven't clicked the link just in case, but from the URL it looks like it's a payment page, so I assume I would be expected to put in my card details to pay the "redelivery fee", and they would then either steal the card details, or at least the "fee" amount.
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Forward it to Royal mail but let them know its a scam as they'll probably give their details!
 
dowie said:
They're often so desperate when they think they've got a genuine one, I think they must get so many dozen short calls in between some brief abuse and people just hanging up. You even get the automated ones now so they only route calls to a human operator if you've at least say "yes" and not just hung up.

I don't have time to get them to call me back etc.. but I do have time to string them along for a few minutes.

Usually, I just tell some story about my fictitious car accident that gets more and more ridiculous but sometimes if they haven't cottoned on that this ridiculous accident story is a complete wind up I'll end it with something like "oh and it just occurred to me that the prophet Mohammed sucks ****s" - that one has had a couple of reactions ranging from one guy going absolutely nuts and raging down the phone: "you bloody ******* bitch **** your mother etc.. I will find you" "keep dreaming mate, you can't even afford to leave your country" "******* bloody bitch I kill you" etc..etc.. through to some Indian guy bursting out laughing and say "haha very good I agree in fact" then hanging up.
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I love the accident ones. I go with a motorcycle accident just so I can go in to great detail about needing amputations. Then when bored after wasting 20 minutes of their time, start asking if you’ll need to pay anything or is it a no win no fee situation as the accident already cost me an arm and a leg.

Most just hang up but I’ve had a few funny reactions.
 
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