It was on 8 June 2020 that I had my ablation. Since then I have been totally free of AF.
Which is lucky as my email was hacked and I was scammed last month. I was very silly and am very lucky to have come out of it unscathed.
I know it isn't relevant but I hope that by posting I can save someone else falling victim to a scam.
I am moving house and I got an email from my solicitor asking me to send 10% of the purchase price for the deposit and I was so excited that things were happening that I did just that. Unfortunately, it was the scammer and his email address was identical to my solicitor's apart from an s missed off his name. To save time I sent it from three different bank accounts.
By the next morning it became obvious that it was a scam. Two of the banks had stopped my payments but the third got through. I was very fortunate that Nationwide has refunded me. It's called the Friday afternoon fraud because more people move on a Friday. I can't imagine what they have gone through!
It became obvious that they had hacked my email account a month earlier. And mucked up my Thunderbird account.
This past week or two I have been very confused by emails from my solicitor and removal company going into my deleted folder but yesterday I discovered that the scammer had put rules on my Outlook account to delete messages from microsoft as well as the solicitor and remover and mark them as read.
Through all this my heart has stayed steady as a rock. Without my ablation it would have probably gone right off the scale.
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How absolutely dreadful for you! Your heart must be holding up very well. I feel pretty sure mine wouldn't although AF has reared it's head completely out of the blue at times.
Hope your move goes well without any further dramas.
There are some real scum bags around aren't there? I remember when it was just wages vans being rammed or banks held up .( I worked In Lloyds in Knightsbridge and actually held the door open coming back from lunch once for a robber rushing out! Got a lot of ribbing for that. lol 😁) My neighbour got an e mail from "her daughter" saying she had lost her phone and wallet and asking if she could make a couple of payments for her by card. Took ages to unravel that one . Your scam is a well known one sadly so lucky you got your money back. Glad the heart is OK.
Yes, I gather there was a film on Netflix about it last year but I didn't see it!! It's the same with the other one you mentioned. I wouldn't have fallen for that but my Tesco delivery man's father did recently. He lost £500.
I've been on the internet for over 25 years and doing online banking for a very long time, I change my passwords and make them not easy to guess but I think that there are now machines which can work out passwords in a few minutes.
Oh I often get those. Got one last week from a friend detailing her daughter's illness that she needed money for. Good job I knew my friend didn't have a daughter. The only time I was "almost" scammed was doing my weekly shop online. My bank picked up two small payments and alerted me. They stopped the payments and I had to have a new bank card- a confounded nuisance 5 weeks before Christmas. The next week I used my new card with the same supermarket and got hacked again. The card was brand new, had never been used or taken out of the house so it could only have been the supermarket's insecure website. Their response to me was "We are not responsible for the security of our website!" I've never shopped with S*!*^+ y's again.
I can remember you being on this forum and it's good to hear that you have been AF free for quite a few years now.
Re your being scammed, there are some horrible people around and it's sad to hear that you have been one of their victims. I've muttered a few swear words aimed at them. Thank goodness your banks were alert and understanding. Phew, thank you for tipping us off.
My older sister who has slight learning difficulties and has recently moved to be nearer us her family, has also been a type of victim. She has been receiving small cardboard packages in the post with nothing but odd bits of cardboard in them. I guess she must have had about 10 now. Apparently it's so that the company sending them will have a good delivery record with the mail service. My younger sister has taken charge of getting to the bottom of that, of course there's no address on the package saying who it's from and people she's asked for advice have no solution. She may go to a newspaper or a local t.v. programme to see if they can get to the bottom of it.
I hope your move goes smoothly and your days of AF are well behind you. May I ask who did your ablation and at what hospital?
"A wave of reports is being made by confused people who’ve received empty envelopes in the mail, and experts say they’re coming from third-party merchants on Amazon that fit the pattern of a known scam called “brushing,” where merchants create fake transactions on the site and then use the deliveries to create fake reviews.
According to Fakespot, around 40% of Amazon reviews weren’t written by actual customers. The tracking numbers and confirmations that the fake packages were delivered allow them to leave a review for products the scammers are trying to sell.
My ablation was carried out at my local District General Hospital. The EP was not well known and I didn't see him before or after my ablation. To my mind he was as good as any of the big names at Papworth etc.
Thanks for taking the time to share your experiences, only a few come back to share positive ablation experiences and some are afraid to say too much too soon not to tempt fate. Mine was 6 months ago yesterday and your post is most encouraging, I keep an update on my bio. I wouldn’t want to test it out with an experience like you’ve just had with scammers as that is a sure trigger if still susceptible to AF.
All in all great information shared and hopefully will help many with their ablation worries and maybe prevent someone else from being scammed.
I am very sorry to read of your experience, BUT, am glad you have survived relatively unharmed. I am fairly computer savvy BUT it has taken me ages to discipline Mrs Ben Hall1 .......... she's got it now. With any incoming email ............. if you don't know it .......... delete it. I work on the basis that if I do that and someone genuine who wants me they will either have a street address, an email address or a phone number - that's three choices to contact me. If not ... they're a con job.
Good luck with your move and much joy in the future in your new residence.
But would she notice if she got a message from a known johnsmith@quicksolicitor.co.uk when it should be jonsmith@quicksolicitors.co.uk and it wasn't unexpected? I didn't.
It has taken me a while but she now deletes anything like that, particularly if it looks to be unsolicited or that looks to be something she has never initiated in the past. I've taught her to glance at her email patterns as well and make decisions accordingly. If something is genuine, and gets delketed ... so what ... most genuine communicators have other options of making contact. If they don't ........ not genuine.
WOW. you're amazing - and so is your heart! I'm envious. But not of the scamming. How stressful. We use AVAST on our systems to protect ourselves and our business from attacks. And I must say my husband is very vigilant. Thank goodness your banks were too. Hope the move goes smoothly and you have some good IT help to get rid of the scum that is scamming.
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