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InsertWittyNameHere
(OP) User ID: 72182745 United Kingdom 06/16/2016 08:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That's what you get for doing everything on your phone. Quoting: Useless Cookie Eater Did you learn your expensive lesson yet? I am registered blind, so doing everything via voice or voice activated messaging is the only way I can communicate if not face to face. As I mentioned in my original post, there wasn't much money in it as it was a spare account. GLP UK Money Release £5 released in November 2014 Banknote Number MA58 858887 "GLP 2014" Written down right hand side of banknote. |
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darkwolf007
User ID: 69195067 United States 06/16/2016 08:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That's what you get for doing everything on your phone. Quoting: Useless Cookie Eater Did you learn your expensive lesson yet? I am registered blind, so doing everything via voice or voice activated messaging is the only way I can communicate if not face to face. As I mentioned in my original post, there wasn't much money in it as it was a spare account. Darkness blind or blurry blind, OP? I ask because blurry blind can be fixed with a pair of good glasses, but if it's darkness blind then damn... that sucks. Conspiracy Theorist is nothing more than a derogatory title used to dismiss a critical thinker. A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us." -- St. Anthony The Great Social Credit Loser here. |
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(OP) User ID: 72182745 United Kingdom 06/16/2016 08:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | LOL you gave someone on facebook your banking information? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 50585702 ahahahahahahah No. I didn't give anyone on Facebook my banking information. The messages were done via my speech program on my phone. GLP UK Money Release £5 released in November 2014 Banknote Number MA58 858887 "GLP 2014" Written down right hand side of banknote. |
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(OP) User ID: 72182745 United Kingdom 06/16/2016 08:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That's what you get for doing everything on your phone. Quoting: Useless Cookie Eater Did you learn your expensive lesson yet? I am registered blind, so doing everything via voice or voice activated messaging is the only way I can communicate if not face to face. As I mentioned in my original post, there wasn't much money in it as it was a spare account. Darkness blind or blurry blind, OP? I ask because blurry blind can be fixed with a pair of good glasses, but if it's darkness blind then damn... that sucks. I have less than 5% sight left GLP UK Money Release £5 released in November 2014 Banknote Number MA58 858887 "GLP 2014" Written down right hand side of banknote. |
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AkashicRecord®
User ID: 63888394 United States 06/16/2016 08:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That's what you get for doing everything on your phone. Quoting: Useless Cookie Eater Did you learn your expensive lesson yet? I am registered blind, so doing everything via voice or voice activated messaging is the only way I can communicate if not face to face. As I mentioned in my original post, there wasn't much money in it as it was a spare account. Darkness blind or blurry blind, OP? I ask because blurry blind can be fixed with a pair of good glasses, but if it's darkness blind then damn... that sucks. I have less than 5% sight left At least hindsight is 20/20! Sorry, that message is no longer in the database. |
Mr.Liberty1776
User ID: 72226807 United States 06/16/2016 08:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Sorry OP , that really sucks. Today we need a nation of minute men; men who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life.. John F. Kennedy, 1961 The ideal ruler will recruit men superior to himself as teachers;the worst will employ only slaves. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 72406288 United Kingdom 06/16/2016 08:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I missed this bit - "could she have the money sent to my bank account until I see her at work the next day?" So how does the scam work? Just because they have your sort code and bank account number, how do they get your money? |
darkwolf007
User ID: 69195067 United States 06/16/2016 08:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That's what you get for doing everything on your phone. Quoting: Useless Cookie Eater Did you learn your expensive lesson yet? I am registered blind, so doing everything via voice or voice activated messaging is the only way I can communicate if not face to face. As I mentioned in my original post, there wasn't much money in it as it was a spare account. Darkness blind or blurry blind, OP? I ask because blurry blind can be fixed with a pair of good glasses, but if it's darkness blind then damn... that sucks. I have less than 5% sight left Whoa. That does suck, OP. Good luck in your banking endeavors though. Hopefully you'll get your affairs straightened out sooner than later. Conspiracy Theorist is nothing more than a derogatory title used to dismiss a critical thinker. A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us." -- St. Anthony The Great Social Credit Loser here. |
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Krissyinoh User ID: 35011969 United States 06/16/2016 08:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That's what you get for doing everything on your phone. Quoting: Useless Cookie Eater Did you learn your expensive lesson yet? :billpopcorn: I am registered blind, so doing everything via voice or voice activated messaging is the only way I can communicate if not face to face. As I mentioned in my original post, there wasn't much money in it as it was a spare account. I'm sure there's a special place in hell for a scumbag that steals from a blind friend. Hope she didn't get much. Don't worry, everybody gets theirs in the end. |
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(OP) User ID: 72182745 United Kingdom 06/16/2016 09:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't understand why you gave them your bank details and even if they had the full sort code and account number, how they could empty your account. Can you please explain so no one else falls for this? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72406288 I received a message on my phone from my friend, asking if she could have a payment put into my account from something she had sold on ebay. She had told me earlier in the day (via email as I was working away from the building at that time) that her phone had been taken and her social media had been hacked. She was worried about her banking app being broken into. Anyway I got a message from her saying she had sold something but because her bank account had been closed, could she ask the buyer to send the money into my account, and I give her the cash when we are next in work. I said yes, and she asked for the account number and sort code - which is usual if someone is paying into your account. She said because her bank account had been hacked, I will be phoned by paypal or her bank, an automated phonecard with a 4 digit code that authorises the account to receive the money will be given to me. I gave her the details of a bank account that I hardly use (as mentioned before it only had a small amount of money in it) as I don't like doing things online - I much prefer face to face. Unknown to me, the code was a code that reset my online banking details for that account. The reason I don't use the account was because I prefer to do my banking in branch. This person was doing a very good job of impersonating my friend, even down to the phrases used and business things we had discussed earlier that day via email. I got suspicious when the person started to get really aggressive as the account wasn't an account that had my wages paid into it. They actually said "That isn't your real account..I need the details of the account that your wages go into. " My first thought was - the cheeky cow, I am trying to help her out here. Then it changed to why does she need an account where my wages are paid into? Then I thought the whole thing was really not sounding right. I ended the messaging and phoned my husband who came to help me out. I got my husband to go into my phone and change my online banking password, and lo and behold it was the same kind of phonecall I had recieved earlier on . I changed the passwords to sonething very complicated and went into the nearest branch of my bank, told the woman what had gone on and that I had changed my passwords and do I need to do anything else. She said that would be sufficient I have in the last few hours found out that the whole account has been blocked by the fraud dept of my bank as someone had applied for a large loan on the account. Just before the loan application they had transferred money out of my account. GLP UK Money Release £5 released in November 2014 Banknote Number MA58 858887 "GLP 2014" Written down right hand side of banknote. |
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(OP) User ID: 72182745 United Kingdom 06/16/2016 09:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: InsertWittyNameHere I am registered blind, so doing everything via voice or voice activated messaging is the only way I can communicate if not face to face. As I mentioned in my original post, there wasn't much money in it as it was a spare account. Darkness blind or blurry blind, OP? I ask because blurry blind can be fixed with a pair of good glasses, but if it's darkness blind then damn... that sucks. I have less than 5% sight left At least hindsight is 20/20! Hee hee. Love it! GLP UK Money Release £5 released in November 2014 Banknote Number MA58 858887 "GLP 2014" Written down right hand side of banknote. |
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(OP) User ID: 72182745 United Kingdom 06/16/2016 09:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | LOL you gave someone on facebook your banking information? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 50585702 ahahahahahahah I stopped caring after OP mentioned Facebook. There's a lesson to be learned here, but I bet OP doesn't learn it. The only facebook I use is a business page that I am co-admin of with my friend. I don't have any social media accounts at all. In fact I hate the whole thing and have as little to do with it as possible as the sites are difficult for me to navigate GLP UK Money Release £5 released in November 2014 Banknote Number MA58 858887 "GLP 2014" Written down right hand side of banknote. |
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(OP) User ID: 72182745 United Kingdom 06/16/2016 09:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I DON'T use Facebook. I have access to the business Facebook page but have never posted on it . It is too difficult for me to navigate as it doesn't work well with the speech program I use. The messages were direct to my personal phone and read out to me by my speech programme. GLP UK Money Release £5 released in November 2014 Banknote Number MA58 858887 "GLP 2014" Written down right hand side of banknote. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 70975244 United States 06/16/2016 09:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I DON'T use Facebook. I have access to the business Facebook page but have never posted on it . It is too difficult for me to navigate as it doesn't work well with the speech program I use. The messages were direct to my personal phone and read out to me by my speech programme. oh I am sorry, but I would never even give bank info to a friend like that I was confused if it was a Message through facebook messenger or a text |