Naughty and Nice

There are lots of different types of people in this world, some nice, some not. Over the past couple of days I have met both. Yesterday, I had my debit card details stolen buy someone who cruelly tricked me into handing over my details...

I received a call from someone claiming to be from BT (British Telecom), he claimed that I owed money (around £30) and unless I paid immediately my line was going to be cut off at the end of the call plus he said that if the line was cut off there would be a £75 reconnection fee. He sounded really genuine and I stupidly handed over my card details, he then told me that it didn't go through and asked for another account, luckily I only have one visa account so I couldn't give him anything else. He then said he would let me phone my phone supplier as I'm not with BT (at the risk of his job supposedly!) to find out what was going on. So I did and they just confirmed that I was their customer and there was no way BT could cut me off.

I phoned BT immediately back and asked what was going on and they had no idea and they said they would never ring and ask for details like that. I realised I had just handed my details to a stranger. Fortunately I live very close to my bank and I went there right away to freeze my card, there was already a payment due to go out for over £50 that had nothing to do with my spending. I am very fortunate that I caught it before the false payment was processed. So other than to get another card send out to me (and a near heart attack!) there's no harm done.

I have notified BT and they are now investigating the matter.
Please spread the word to anyone you think could be at risk so no-one else can be fooled by this.

I cannot stress enough how convincing this guy was, he uses fear in order to get you to hand over your details, by telling others about this you may save someone from losing a lot of money.

As I said I have met both kinds of people in the last couple of days and now I move on to the nice. Today for the first time, I spoke to my cousins new girlfriend. My cousin has been bending my ear off about her for ages and I was glad I could finally say hello to her myself. We seem to have a lot in common and I'm fairly sure she's just as insane as I am, sanity is over-rated in my opinion anyway. I'm really looking forward to getting to know her better.