Vaccination scam

[artisam]

I see many of you getting your vaccinations around about now. I received an 'NHS' email today inviting me for mine. Accepted the invitation, chose my date and then low and behold they wanted credit card details to cover admin booking fee!!! Closed that down pretty sharpish I can tell you. I'm sure you are all savvy, but you may have older more vunerable family members who might easily fall for this. Please beware.

[PMRpro Ambassador]

Fran put up a warning last week about it.

healthunlocked.com/pmrgcauk...

[artisam in reply to PMRpro]

Missed this one - another warning does no harm.

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer in reply to PMRpro]

Thanks - was trying to find that!

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer]

See below from NHS England re scams -

“If you receive a call you believe to be fraudulent, hang up. If you are suspicious about an email you have received, forward it to [e-mail]. Suspicious text messages should be forwarded to the number 7726 which is free of charge.

If you believe you are the victim of a fraud, please report this to Action Fraud as soon as possible by calling 0300 123 2040 or visiting actionfraud.police.uk

The NCSC is asking people to report suspect emails to its Suspicious Email Reporting Service simply by forwarding them to [e-mail]. All emails forwarded to the service are analysed and if they are found to link to malicious content, it will be taken down or blocked, helping prevent future victims of crime.ervice simply by forwarding them to [e-mail]. All emails forwarded to the service are analysed and if they are found to link to malicious content, it will be taken down or blocked, helping prevent future victims of crime.e the victim of a fraud, please report this to Action Fraud as soon as possible by calling 0300 123 2040 or visiting actionfraud.police.uk

The NCSC is asking people to report suspect emails to its Suspicious Email Reporting Service simply by forwarding them to [e-mail]. All emails forwarded to the service are analysed and if they are found to link to malicious content, it will be taken down or blocked, helping prevent future victims of crime.”

[artisam in reply to DorsetLady]

Will do this right way.

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer in reply to artisam]

Good - got to try and stop the scumbags!

[piglette]

There was something on radio 4 today about people receiving the email. Quite a cunning one. I have had a text this evening purportedly from O2 saying that I am out if Air Time. A friend has had a similar one and she us with EE. It is a scam. The web address is v.o2..... not just o2....

[Thelmarina in reply to piglette]

Yes - a friend of mine got caught and they fleeced her of £3k. They are very plausible. Best to say if there’s a problem to put it in writing - or just don’t answer the phone! 😱

[piglette in reply to Thelmarina]

My gosh, that is a lot of money to lose, your poor friend.

[Thelmarina in reply to piglette]

Her bank covered it in the end thank goodness!

[artisam]

It's clever because you're waiting for it. Worrying that they know who to target - or is it just coincidence?

[Thelmarina in reply to artisam]

I think they key into high levels of anxiety. Nasty.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to artisam]

According to the article on Sky News this morning, once someone engages with a scam phone call their contact is sold on to databases. They said there were over 20 such calls a month for many people and too many don't report them because they are embarrased.

I get occasional cold calls here - I just hang up, if it is in Italian I know it wasn't something I needed - I live in a German-speaking area and all official contacts have that registered!

[Nannie-C]

If you click on senders name then you will get full details of who actually sent the email then you can be certain it’s not real and move to spam and also block them.

[artisam in reply to Nannie-C]

Yes, the silly thing is I know all this and advise people about it. Just took me unawares because I was half expecting to be contacted. I always know as soon as card details are mentioned it's a scam and report it draught way.

[mickam]

t really does beggar belief. The world is facing it's greatest peace time crisis for a century. The global death rate is astronomical. Dedicated people are risking their lives to help and our scientific communities have pulled off an astonishing feat in producing vaccines so quickly. yet still the pond life see it as nothing more than an opportunity to rob and cheat decent people, those who are suffering. I would not consider myself to be one of the hang 'em, flog 'em brigade but I would happily see these people go to prison for a long time.

[Constance13 in reply to mickam]

Me to!

[neutric]

Just go on the real site with your nhs no and book. WWW.NHS.UK/Coronavirus. I gave up waiting for my letter as extremely vulnerable.(My surgery are useless)booked straight in .