How Gullible are you?

[TWR]

emails scams, mobile phone scams, land line scams, cold calling scams, re-cycle clothes scams, are you cute & alert enough to see through these?

[AB Editor]

Sorry, was looking at a stale page.

[tenrec]

I am cute and alert, but am always aware that scammers try to keep one step ahead.
The Oxford English Dictionary have removed "gullible" from the latest edition.

[paddywak]

Re the clothes scam, a couple of years ago I came in from taking Max for his morning walk and saw couple of guys in a white tranny van collecting recycling bags. I thought nothing of it except that they were early, untill later in the day when I heard some lads and lasses, complete with Identity badges etc for the particular charity complaining about how mean the people round the estate were. They were a bit upset when I told them they were five hours too late.

[TOWIE]

Email and phone scams I am on top of it. The only time I was caught out, was about 9 years ago. A woman knocked at my door with a clipboard that had loads of names written on it with amounts of money next to it; she went onto tell me about a skydive she was doing that weekend to support the school for the deaf which her daughter attended.

I did ask her where she was doing the dive, and she said in Kent; I was a bit cautious as she seemed quite nervy. Anyway, I gave her a fiver and wrote my name down on her clipboard. I did look out of the window and she did go to a few other houses, some of which were not in.

Anyway, a couple of months went by and I thought it strange nothing about it in the local paper, which would be the norm. I rang the paper to make enquiries, and there was no reporting on it.

A year later, low and behold there she appeared in our local paper, not for doing the skydive, but being done for fraud. Apparently she used this scam quite a lot and had made loads of money out of it; she got sent to prison.

I never give at the door anymore {:o(

[Mamyalynne]

I have been told I am cute, was it a scam??

[tenrec]

For years I thought the word gullible, referred to seagulls!

[mccfluff]

same as crafty

[China Doll]

Probably not very when it comes to scams but the man hostage quite often tells me things that I believe to be true and then laughs at me... this is because he is mean.

[jno]

I've had to ask ABers about the occasional spam item. (The answer is always "Yes, it is.")

[craft1948]

Snags = Top Scammer

[parkie]

My sister-in-law had a 'student' knock on her door once with a hard up story so she bought a few items from his case. She had no cash so gave him a cheque for eight pounds.
When the cheque finally went through, a 'y' had been added to the word 'eight' and a '0' added to the sum in the box.
An expensive couple of T-towels.

[Dee Sa]

just think there are people just sitting there thinking up new scams every day if they have twenty "brain storms" and only just one works they are in clover, these people think honest graft is a dirty word.
I feel so sorry for the elderly that get scammed.

[cathfromsaron]

i always 'junk' spam, 'report' phishing emails and slam the phone down on cold calls - occasionally politely saying don't call again - but i never seem to get any fewer!

cath x