Westminster Park Residents Association

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Telephone scams

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Please be aware that there are a number of telephone scams going around. If you have caller line identification enabled, they will typically some up with ‘number unavailable’ or ‘INTERNATIONAL’. One I have had a few times is someone saying they are from ‘Windows’ saying that my computer is infected with a virus. Often with very poor english. The simplest way to deal with these calls is a very abrupt – not interested, thank you very much , goodbye and hang up. It’s just not worth talking to these people any longer than you have to.

We also have registered with the telephone preference service, this should stop unwanted calls, but not international ones.

Remember NEVER give you credit card or bank details to anyone who has called you over the phone unless you are ABSOLUTELY sure who they are.

You can read more about this here.

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