2nd time my husband has had this call (last one 10 days ago). This time he was ready and had a proper row with the bloke. The caller admitted he was a scammer and was living the high life in Dubai earning £100K a week making these calls.
DANGER. Convincing scam saying credit card compromised, leading them to wanting to help you by giving them a security code generated from M&S banking app. Don't tell them anything.
First called as a no caller ID, as I answered they hang up and called again with number showing on display and said they are calling from M&S bank fraud department about fraudulent activity on my account, I said I didn't believe them, they said number showing on your screen, type it on google as M&S bank number, this will come up, I said I will rather call the number myself and I did and ofcourse there were no suspicious activity on my card nor there were a call from the fraud department, bewa
Pretended to be barclays and asked for my balance and recent transactions, then took £80 out of my account. Be aware, I’ve reported the case to my bank and police, but they sounded very convincing.
M&S scam call pretending there were fraudulent activities on card, wanted to send another card but confirm security number sent which was against google pay (they were trying to set themselves up with our card on their account). Cancelled card immediately. They had mine and my partners phone numbers. Sounded very convincing, beware
Try to get me to do a survey about how much money I earn. Said I don't talk about money on the phone. A very strong African accent. And this number came as "international" on my phone so was suspicious.