“Your tax file number has been suspended and there is a warrant out for your arrest!” A cold metallic voice on the other end of the phone stated...

 Have you received a phone call similar to that? The number was quickly blocked I add. It was just made to my partners phone. He has received a few of “those type” calls. Fortunately enough I haven’t!
 
How can people do this. I know the phone numbers are automatically generated and if the fraudsters just “reel in”  one or two out of several thousand calls they have done well for the day.
 
Anyone living on their own would be traumatised by a call like that and some would go on and press a certain number for more information...then they’re hooked..well and truly. We know it’s a fraud a fake call but there are many that don’t; believe it or not!  It’s been on TV enough about these crooks but still they catch people out. The mind boggles really it does.
 
Just the other day I heard a story...this man’s father in his 80’s received a phone call out of the blue  asking if he would like to invest in Bit coins...yes really! They called several times it seems maybe until he relented. They asked for bank card details so he...unbelievably... sent them a photo copy of his bank card AND his driver licence!! How dangerous is that. It opens yourself up to identity theft and all kinds of things. Anyway he received numerous calls and e-mails..so many in fact his son who lives interstate had to travel up to change his phone number/e-mail account and cancel his bank card.
They...the fraudster crooks..had already taken six thousand dollars out of his bank account.
 
It’s crazy isn’t it and so easy for an older person to be taken in especially if there is a chance to maybe get something for nothing or be in “on the ground floor” as they say in some new and exciting way of making money. The only people making money and plenty of it are the fraudsters that do this and they could be living anywhere in the world..anywhere. They hide their tracks so well more often than not getting away with it.
 
I really don’t know how we can protect people from themselves. It almost seems a losing battle at times, as there seems no way of changing things, it will continue.
 
Just beware and always be on your guard...

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