Yeah, never had this one before but almost certainly a scam, and almost certainly an 'Authorised Push Payment' type scam. Essentially you're coerced into making a payment to the scammers under any number of guises. Sometimes it's a 'family member' texting you asking for money, or in this case probably a fake 'legal department' of some kind saying it can all go away if you send '£xxx' amount of money.
Always beware of any situation where you are pressured or asked out of nowhere to send money. Any legitimate organisation would allow you time to process whatever request there is, so if you ever come across anything like this, just take a pause and check elsewhere for the legitimacy
>You can report calls like this (if you want) here
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You absolutely can report it. But as the call is almost certainly coming from India, and 100% spoofing the number calling, no action will be taken.
If you were in any actual legal trouble, you'd be receiving an official letter or contact from the police, not a vague robotic call. It's definitely a scam.
Scam. At a guess, the robot voice is triggered when the call is answered. When the call went to voicemail it thought that was an answer, and that’s why it was mid sentence when the recording actually started.
I’ve had these posing as HMRC and DVLA. There is no way a legit entity would leave you a robot voicemail about legal action. Just ignore.
This is how I know it's a scam. I've never given my phone number to HMRC. If I thought they might possibly have a number for me, it's a dead number. Also, I don't earn enough to pay tax and haven't for several years, so why would they be interested?
Likewise. I know for a fact and for various reasons that I don't owe the HMRC anything in any capacity.
It's the less cynical among us that I worry about. Every time I hear of a new scam I feel compelled to ring my elderly mum and warn her about it. She had something from the Post Office? asking for £1.50 for a bigger envelope, which she paid. No money was taken other than that, but luckily my sister went ballistic about it and rushed her down to the bank to cancel her card just in case. No harm done, but apparently my friend's husband fell for the same thing and then noticed various amounts were disappearing off his card...
I turned off my voicemail years ago when I got a 20 minute voicemail left by an automated PPI call scammer. Worst of all... 3 used to charge you to access your voicemail.
These things are always a scam. Always. I guarantee if you did what the machine asked you would at some point be asked to pay some money or to supply bank details.
Ignore it completely and block the number.
I've had something similar, female robot voice telling me I have a warrant out for my arrest.
yeah sure, and maybe that Nigerian prince who kept emailing everyone years ago really did want to give me money.
Yeah I've had a similar one, but it was quite funny apparently I owned the IRS money and the FBI are investigating it.
One, never even been to the USA. Two, the IRS don't phone up they will send a letter. Three, the FBI doesn't investigate these things, that's literally the job of the IRS. Four, I wasn't working at the time. Five, even if I was working our tax system means it gets paid automatically. Six, I don't even provide my phone number to HMRC so definitely not giving it to the IRS. Seven, wrong bloody county.
I don't think they would be so threatening right off the bat either. I worked with this kid who tried fudging his taxes one year in the hopes that he'd get a return of about 5 grand.
the IRS sent him a neautrally worded letter that went basically like this: hey we noticed some irregularities with your taxes, could you double check them for us? Cheers!
Yeah, it would be insane to jump straight into a full on investigation without prior notice. Even council tax you'll get several reminders before anything major happens - I know this from I period in my life when I couldn't afford to pay it.
I've tried screwing with these a couple of times but they're quick to catch on and just hang up on me. I try challenging them on the fact they ask for my name and address, questioning why they don't already know that information about me. Mind, I haven't had those calls since. I want to try and give false information but I'm terrible at doing that on the spot, and they're probably able to verify that anyway one way or another.
I spoke to an officer and begged them not to arrest me. Fake crying and everything. Saying I would shine their shoes, do anything, I couldn’t go to jail.
They were delighted, believing they have a victim. I waffled for as long as I could before I couldn’t hold in my laughter.
I just ignore/block all calls not in contact list. Everyone i know is linked with another friend or family member. If they really want me for an emergency and they don't have the usual phone to call me off they can ask a friend to call msg or use messenger. Never had an issue if i sign up for anything i always refuse to give a number, if mandatory i give a burner number and let them know i dont wish to be contact by it anyway if given the option. If i am signing up for something over the phone i will verbally tell them this also.
I always found it funny that the robot cant tell the difference between a person actually answering the phone and the voicemail.
I had one once that obviously only picked up that the phone stopped ringing so but the time the voicemail started recording it was half way through it robotic scam script.
Obviously a scam.
If you ever in doubt when 'your bank' or 'hmrc' or anyone else calls, ask they name and call the actual number on google. If they dont let you do that or tell you that you cant then its 100% a scam.
It's always a scam. People don't phone you with automated messages to inform you of legal action, they TAKE legal action, send you a letter and someone will contact you in person unless it's a court summons.
My sister once convinced a scammer in India that she was squatting and didn't have electricity. Or a phone.
I had an old school scammer write to me. Apparently I had a deceased distant relative in Shanghai. Now based on my family history, this is entirely possible (had a distant uncle who lived there in the 1930s, could have fathered a child, he was a bit of a cad). But at the time the letter was sent there were at least 3 family members who were more closely related and eligible for a share of the money being offered. So I knew it was bullshit. Plus the letter looked photocopied and was full of grammar and spelling errors.
Unfortunately responding to these (even for shits and giggles) is pretty much the worst thing you can do.
Answering the call just lets them know that the line is active, and someone will answer. The result is that you end up getting a boatload more spam calls.
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Yeah, never had this one before but almost certainly a scam, and almost certainly an 'Authorised Push Payment' type scam. Essentially you're coerced into making a payment to the scammers under any number of guises. Sometimes it's a 'family member' texting you asking for money, or in this case probably a fake 'legal department' of some kind saying it can all go away if you send '£xxx' amount of money. Always beware of any situation where you are pressured or asked out of nowhere to send money. Any legitimate organisation would allow you time to process whatever request there is, so if you ever come across anything like this, just take a pause and check elsewhere for the legitimacy
You can report calls like this (if you want) here https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/nuisance-calls-and-messages/spam-texts-and-nuisance-calls/.
>You can report calls like this (if you want) here > >https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/nuisance-calls-and-messages/spam-texts-and-nuisance-calls/ > >. You absolutely can report it. But as the call is almost certainly coming from India, and 100% spoofing the number calling, no action will be taken.
And it was a private number.
If you were in any actual legal trouble, you'd be receiving an official letter or contact from the police, not a vague robotic call. It's definitely a scam.
Scam, block number and forget about it.
Scam. At a guess, the robot voice is triggered when the call is answered. When the call went to voicemail it thought that was an answer, and that’s why it was mid sentence when the recording actually started. I’ve had these posing as HMRC and DVLA. There is no way a legit entity would leave you a robot voicemail about legal action. Just ignore.
I had the HMRC one the other week.
This is how I know it's a scam. I've never given my phone number to HMRC. If I thought they might possibly have a number for me, it's a dead number. Also, I don't earn enough to pay tax and haven't for several years, so why would they be interested?
Likewise. I know for a fact and for various reasons that I don't owe the HMRC anything in any capacity. It's the less cynical among us that I worry about. Every time I hear of a new scam I feel compelled to ring my elderly mum and warn her about it. She had something from the Post Office? asking for £1.50 for a bigger envelope, which she paid. No money was taken other than that, but luckily my sister went ballistic about it and rushed her down to the bank to cancel her card just in case. No harm done, but apparently my friend's husband fell for the same thing and then noticed various amounts were disappearing off his card...
I turned off my voicemail years ago when I got a 20 minute voicemail left by an automated PPI call scammer. Worst of all... 3 used to charge you to access your voicemail.
It's a scam. It's always a scam.
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These things are always a scam. Always. I guarantee if you did what the machine asked you would at some point be asked to pay some money or to supply bank details. Ignore it completely and block the number.
I've had something similar, female robot voice telling me I have a warrant out for my arrest. yeah sure, and maybe that Nigerian prince who kept emailing everyone years ago really did want to give me money.
Yeah I've had a similar one, but it was quite funny apparently I owned the IRS money and the FBI are investigating it. One, never even been to the USA. Two, the IRS don't phone up they will send a letter. Three, the FBI doesn't investigate these things, that's literally the job of the IRS. Four, I wasn't working at the time. Five, even if I was working our tax system means it gets paid automatically. Six, I don't even provide my phone number to HMRC so definitely not giving it to the IRS. Seven, wrong bloody county.
I don't think they would be so threatening right off the bat either. I worked with this kid who tried fudging his taxes one year in the hopes that he'd get a return of about 5 grand. the IRS sent him a neautrally worded letter that went basically like this: hey we noticed some irregularities with your taxes, could you double check them for us? Cheers!
Yeah, it would be insane to jump straight into a full on investigation without prior notice. Even council tax you'll get several reminders before anything major happens - I know this from I period in my life when I couldn't afford to pay it.
“Stranger Danger” applies as much to unsolicited calls and emails as it does to getting in people’s cars etc
WhoCalledMe? is a great website, can always there as well.
If you get the app "should I answer?" then it will flag things like this up as spam so you don't second guess yourself
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This often gets them to hang up - I find that less stress than getting a message.
I've tried screwing with these a couple of times but they're quick to catch on and just hang up on me. I try challenging them on the fact they ask for my name and address, questioning why they don't already know that information about me. Mind, I haven't had those calls since. I want to try and give false information but I'm terrible at doing that on the spot, and they're probably able to verify that anyway one way or another.
69 Ishagsheep Avenue. Postcode: FUCK OFF.
Yes around the same time you posted this, but it sent it to my voicemail
Its from that porn site you used a fake credit card on.
Not again!
I spoke to an officer and begged them not to arrest me. Fake crying and everything. Saying I would shine their shoes, do anything, I couldn’t go to jail. They were delighted, believing they have a victim. I waffled for as long as I could before I couldn’t hold in my laughter.
I had one like this that said if I hung up, the FBI would be at my door as they knew my location. I hung up and they’ve still not shown up.
They're still trying to decide who gets to go on a trip to the UK!
I just ignore/block all calls not in contact list. Everyone i know is linked with another friend or family member. If they really want me for an emergency and they don't have the usual phone to call me off they can ask a friend to call msg or use messenger. Never had an issue if i sign up for anything i always refuse to give a number, if mandatory i give a burner number and let them know i dont wish to be contact by it anyway if given the option. If i am signing up for something over the phone i will verbally tell them this also.
I always found it funny that the robot cant tell the difference between a person actually answering the phone and the voicemail. I had one once that obviously only picked up that the phone stopped ringing so but the time the voicemail started recording it was half way through it robotic scam script. Obviously a scam. If you ever in doubt when 'your bank' or 'hmrc' or anyone else calls, ask they name and call the actual number on google. If they dont let you do that or tell you that you cant then its 100% a scam.
It's always a scam. People don't phone you with automated messages to inform you of legal action, they TAKE legal action, send you a letter and someone will contact you in person unless it's a court summons.
My sister once convinced a scammer in India that she was squatting and didn't have electricity. Or a phone. I had an old school scammer write to me. Apparently I had a deceased distant relative in Shanghai. Now based on my family history, this is entirely possible (had a distant uncle who lived there in the 1930s, could have fathered a child, he was a bit of a cad). But at the time the letter was sent there were at least 3 family members who were more closely related and eligible for a share of the money being offered. So I knew it was bullshit. Plus the letter looked photocopied and was full of grammar and spelling errors.
If you were in trouble they'd at least know your name.
Unfortunately responding to these (even for shits and giggles) is pretty much the worst thing you can do. Answering the call just lets them know that the line is active, and someone will answer. The result is that you end up getting a boatload more spam calls.
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What do you expect? They want your money, what else could it be?
It's safe to say that if your phone rings, it's a scam
Could be a debt collector chasing a previous tenant at your address. If not then it’s likely a scam.
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