Electricity Bill Reducer Scam?

Sounds like a scam to me ... never give your card details to a cold caller.

Something very similar to this was on my local (Leeds) news only this week,

HTH

John

halving bills with a plugin box is impossible. If it were doable we'd all have one.

A clear scam.

NT

Get yourself a shrill whistle or one of those compressed air personal alarms and keep it by the phone. Next time somebody gets annoying on the phone start speaking quietly so they hold their earpiece closer to their ear and then suddenly give them a blast.

Then I like to say " Can you keep your end a bit quieter, I can't hear you with all the noise in the background."

Not sure that will actually have the desired effect on a modern phone system. There's only so loud the receiving end will go.

Pete

Agreed. The only thing to successfully cut your bills in half is a pair of scissors.

Rick Roll them.

If it happens again, take good note of the time and call the Police ASAP. I'm pretty sure they can override "number withheld", at least for UK numbers.

Andy

halving bills with a plugin box is impossible. If it were doable we'd all have one.

A clear scam.

NT

However,

EDF, however, are unlikely to be pushing this.

Also

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

messagenews: snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net...

mmm

sounds like a job for the new national fraud centre that was being enthused about on Radio 4 (you and yours?) last week they have a website

and are rolling it out bit by bit but this to me sounds like a good teeth cutter for them?

JimK

pretty sure they can override "number withheld", at

But it's not a withheld number "The caller withheld their number", it's an unavailable number "We do not have the number to return the call". Probably from abroad.

If I was dishonest enough to do this, I would present a UK geographic number that has nothing to do with me, It's easy to do with VoIP and would give a false sense of security to people like yourself who believe that if it's got a valid number, it's tractable :-)

Can't say I'm up enough on the systems to know if that difference is significant or not.

From my point of view, that's correct. However, I don't think the police would find it an intractable problem, as anyone would have put full traceability (which is probably what you meant to type :P ) into the systems. For bug tracking, if nothing else.

Andy

I prefer the "Oh, I'm so sorry, do excuse me, can you hang on a minute?" and just put the phone on the table. 15 minutes is usually enough.

In article , Andy Champ Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:18:20 writes

A while back I was getting lots of cold calls despite registering with TPS.

I called BT after such a call to ask them to trace it and was told it was almost certainly from abroad and not traceable.

They advised to hang up immediately and they would eventually stop.

Indeed that was what happened.

Given the accents of the two callers, that'll be the police in Mumbai, then :-))

It looks as if I'm on a hit list. I've just had this one:

Chris

Could be Leicester :) But the Bombay or wherever police might be interested, if they can be tracked.

Andy