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Both my wife and I have had txts today - from different numbers and slightly different messages but very similar grammatical errors (and also bad spellen on hers). Both from "NHS" and offered a link to obtain a PCR test
Are these ded common? Neither of us has had one before
AND we were abroad last week and signed up for slightly sketchy-feeling lateral-flow service before & after
Is that a coincidenc eor might we report somewhere in case "everybody" who uses those tests gets the same shite ??
Be careful, don’t click on any links, MIL had a scam one last week.
Long and short of it, “click this to pay for your pcr test”
They then call you, pretending to be your bank, saying scammers have applied for a loan in your name, and take you through’security’ to make sure the loan gets stopped by fraud department.
What they’re actually doing is getting your log in details.
I’m really surprised the MIL got caught with it, she’s not stupid.
Never click on a link..
Forward the messages to 7726 to report them. There are loads of them about.
Never had them before until 2 in a row late afternoon today. Phone automatically sent them to spam for me to double check.
Just had one a few hours ago. Blocked and deleted so can’t check exactly what it said now but the grammar was hilarious. We’ve literally just come out of covid isolation too so it could’ve seemed more genuine with that timing if not for the obviousness of the wording.
My mum got one last week when I was visiting her, she clicked the link 🙄
Luckily her phone seemed to pick up the website as being dodgy and stopped it opening.
I reminded her (again) not to click links from random messages.
Cheers all - I guess not fair to suspect the site we bought our tests from, then <pitchfork down>
Had my first one this afternoon.
It's a scam. My partner had one 2 weeks ago and clicked through as it caught her off guard. They then pretended to be her bank and fooled her for long enough to be painful. I had told her it was a scam the first day and that she should phone her bank from a number found in their website rather than any number given to her by "whoever it was that was calling" she did do this and a block was made on her account. Unfortunately they'd managed to get out land line number and continued the scam for a bit longer. Eventually her bank made contact properly and escalated things further. They shared to be quite concerned as to how much detail the scammers knew about their operating procedures.
My partner just got caught out on the hop as it were, and then found herself stuck in a place where she had no real means of determining what was real or fake. And me telling her bluntly to put the phone down and to not talk to them apparently didn't help.
Just a random scam. Though in recent weeks these have taken over the #1 spot for me previously held by ‘RoylMail tryed to dlvr parCel at 14:37. Click link to reqest redlvry’ or some other obviously scammy text.
Got one yesterday as did a mate. Certainly seems to be a bit of a campaign at the moment. Phone marked it as junk anyway.
Funnily enough I got one this am as I left the house after my isolation. It went in the bin.
First one ever here yesterday. Vodafone automatically put into spam anyway, so I completely ignored it.
My eldest got one the other day, thankfully she's not stupid enough to fall for it and click the link.
I got one too yesterday. Phone flagged it as scam.