What's "the Beatles" 
is it some sort of 1950's flea circus act from the old days
Ah, so you are considerably older than Steve and me as you remember 1950 
No Lizzie , it was on BBC4 late one night 
BUT ....
this is the internet , so I could be a 21 year old Nigerian princess posting from a smart phone in Bognor Regis
No, that is unbelievable……….but, you could be a Prince of India calling with an automated voice about an Amazon payment for £7.99…….now that is believable…….NOT
Been watching BBC1 at 10 in the morning Lizzie?
Oh yes, every episode as I have been ‘interested’ in scams for some years now, and have received many attempts to part me from my money.
The Amazon scam is the phone call that I have had a quiet few times and obviously is the ‘hot one’ currently. Sometimes I play along to speak to a live ‘advisor’, and get the chance to vent my four letter word filled rant about them being scammers, which gives me a laugh and, maybe, keeps them for a time away from scamming a very vulnerable person. Once I mentioned I was a Kent Police advisor, which resulted in the rather amusing attempt by them to convince me they were not scammers, with more than one phone call back to me by a fool with (as is often usual) a full Indian accent!
I intercepted a cold scam call to my daughter just last week to persuade her to take out a life insurance policy and replace her existing Scottish Widows one. Over a good 15 minutes, they tried to get all her personal information from her, made friendly conversation whilst quoting all kinds of financial gains, then (the classic) the operator passed her on to a specialist colleague in “another department” (yeah, really ? In other words the Indian bloke sitting next to him
) to explain the details of the policy.
This is when I intervened, asked if they could send my daughter paperwork confirming all the financial facts, but he said no as it all had to be agreed that day on the phone (!!). At this point I told them she would not be continuing the conversation, told them they were scammers, and cut the call.
Why the authorities cannot clamp down on these scams, especially those originating in India and Africa, I do not know. A screening of telephone calls from these countries alone could stop millions of pounds being scammed. Perhaps it is far more complicated than I think to do so, but something must be done to stop these awful crimes
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