I got the same call, the guy said he was called "jim carter" I had the poor guy on the phone repeating his name and number for about 15 minutes... he asked which bank I was with, I told him the Bank of Africa, Burkina Faso Ougadougou" (Which for those who get the emails is the very bank that has the vast fortunes of many people who died terrible deaths with all their families and want to give it to you!) he asked if that was the royal bank of scotland... after a little while of talking gibberish he decided that the phone line must be faulty and said he would ring back... just before he put the phone down courteously I said... "Bye... I love you" sadly... it didn't stop him ringing back...
no details were given out though... i'm quite sure it's common sense not to give details out to anyone who can't physically prove they are who they say they are...
My tutor at Uni told me a story about nearly getting done by some auto trader scammers.
The story went, he had a car in the trader, and it had been in for a while and not sold... One day he got a call, a woman with a glaswegian accent (which he noted, that everytime he's talked to the real autotrader they have that accent) the woman said that for £80 they could keep his car in the trader for an indefinate period, this was a special offer they were doing over the next week. They'd just need to confirm his details... Luckilly he was really busy and very stressed and didn't have the time or energy to sort it out then. He said he'd ring back the next day.
When he contacted the genuine auto trader they informed him that it was a scam that they knew about and it was being looked into...
I think the basic rules to cold callers who want details are:
Fck them off straight away... Don't give them details...
