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nocheese
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Nov 05, 2018 03:45AM
Yes, that was very much the message in this one. It started out by saying there was a warrant out for my arrest.
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Of course the problem is that there is a self-selection filter. People who realise it's a scam will not bother to phone the number. Those who are gullible will phone and then get sucked in even further.I reckon one of the duties of news programs should be to notify the nation at large about new scams. Also politicians should know about it.
Do you think it's worth passing it on to the media?
P.S. Just found this
https://www.gov.uk/government/organis...
Cheers, Twoddle, I was going to contact the police's Action Fraud section, but that looks better.
Excellent response from HMRC:Thank you for reporting the suspicious telephone call you received.
We are aware that some customers have received telephone calls claiming to be from HMRC requesting personal information or bank account details in order to receive a tax refund, demand money for an unpaid tax bill, or to inform you that HMRC are filing a lawsuit against you. The caller may state that you must make an immediate payment (using various methods including iTunes vouchers), and threatening police action.
If you cannot verify the identity of the person making the call you should not disclose your personal details. For clarification, go to https://www.gov.uk/contact-hmrc and contact the relevant department.
If you have suffered financial loss, you should report this to Action Fraud - the UK's national fraud and cyber-crime reporting centre - using the following link http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/repo...
or you can call Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040 (Please note this number will be charged at your normal network rate). They open Monday to Friday, 09:00 - 18:00.
The callers use a variety of phone numbers. To help our investigations, please dial 1471 after the suspicious call (where possible) make a note of the telephone number quoted (geographic charges may apply). If you have not already done so, please report full details of the scam by email to: phishing@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk , including the:
* date of the call
* phone number given
* brief description of the call
You may also wish to consider contacting your telephone provider to request that any suspicious telephone numbers be investigated and blocked (not all companies provide this service, and some may charge you for it).
HMRC provides additional security advice which can be found by following the link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publica...
Kind regards,
HMRC Online Security Team
nocheese wrote: "Excellent response from HMRC:Thank you for reporting the suspicious telephone call you received.
We are aware that some customers have received telephone calls claiming to be from HMRC requestin..."
Are there really people out there dumb enough to think HMRC will take payment in iTunes vouchers? If so I hope they aren't breeding:-)
Will also except milk tokens, green shield stamps, luncheon vouchers and rationing books!
How about parchment and clay tablets?
Derek wrote: "nocheese wrote: "Excellent response from HMRC:Thank you for reporting the suspicious telephone call you received.
We are aware that some customers have received telephone calls claiming to be fr..."
Have a look about, they are indeed breeding, the thick fuckers should be neutered.
Japanese optical illusion T-shirt from front and side. Hmm. Don't think the illusion will last long. ...https://st1.latestly.com/wp-content/u...
Hmmm? - I could do with a T-Shirt with an optical illusion that works the opposite way around to that one! - LOL!!! ;o>
I would just go for the invisibility cloak.
My faith in online shopping has taken a knock. I searched for invisibility cloak and could only find toy ones. Surely someone in China is selling the real thing.I suppose you could sew a lot of the toy versions together to make a full-size cloak.
I'd be happy to sell you an invisible cloak if that's any use to you. I usually only sell them to emperors...
Gordon wrote: "I'd be happy to sell you an invisible cloak if that's any use to you. I usually only sell them to emperors..."
Can you see how many you've got left in stock?
Can you see how many you've got left in stock?
I'd like one in Orange with Gold Buttons please? ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Hmmm? - I could do with a T-Shirt with an optical illusion that works the opposite way around to that one! - LOL!!! ;o>"Are you bragging or complaining? ;¬)
Well there's a difference between an invisible cloak and an invisibility cloak but now I think about it, a tarpaulin would make you invisible if you just crawled underneath it. Maybe I could start a business selling ordinary but very large cloaks. No-one could claim that it doesn't make you invisible if you hide behind it.
I wonder if the trades-description people would have a case?
Brass Neck wrote: "suzysunshine7 wrote: "Hmmm? - I could do with a T-Shirt with an optical illusion that works the opposite way around to that one! - LOL!!! ;o>"Are you bragging or complaining? ;¬)"
I'd really like to say bragging - but no, I am actually complaining ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Brass Neck wrote: "suzysunshine7 wrote: "Hmmm? - I could do with a T-Shirt with an optical illusion that works the opposite way around to that one! - LOL!!! ;o>"Are you bragging or complaining? ;..."
You and me both, Suzy. I just can't believe the daftness of people who are desperate for implants.
Can you get outplants?
I think Kim Kardashian has them? ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "I think Kim Kardashian has them? ;o>";-) ;-)
Lez wrote: "suzysunshine7 wrote: "I think Kim Kardashian has them? ;o>";-) ;-)"
She'll make an ass of herself.
A surreal message from Scotrail:Service disruption has been reported to services between Polmont and Edinburgh.
A service disruption means the 11:01 will be cancelled due to train crew being delayed by service disruption.
So that's a Service Disruption being caused by a Service Disruption? What kind of an excuse is that?! - they really aren't even trying, are they?!
They could at least tell us that it is because a passenger's pet Unicorn has got his Horn stuck in the overhead Luggage Rack on the Train in front?!!
I'd rather have fun and fantastical lies told to me than be given such annoying and mundane explanations as to why their Network is currently in complete chaos ;o>
Lez wrote: "A surreal message from Scotrail:Service disruption has been reported to services between Polmont and Edinburgh.
A service disruption means the 11:01 will be cancelled due to train crew being delayed by service disruption. "
Maybe the crew were being carried on the 11.01! :-)
The mind boggles.
TwoddleBungler wrote: "Lez wrote: "A surreal message from Scotrail:Service disruption has been reported to services between Polmont and Edinburgh.
A service disruption means the 11:01 will be cancelled due to train cre..."
Aarrgghh, hadn’t thought of that!
I get the explanation - I just wish that it was far more interesting - LOL!!! ;o>Train Crews travel around to their own scheduled Timetable on the Rail Network to get on to their next job on each Train - so, if a Driver gets unexpectedly stranded by a long delay or a Train cancellation in, say, Manchester when they need to be up in Preston within a certain time to catch their next connection elsewhere or to drive their next Train from that Station, then the Station Staff have to try to reassign another Driver at very short notice or else the Train gets left where the last Driver parked it at the Station. And a Train left temporarily unstaffed and blocking the Platform and the rest of Railway Line through to the next Station just adds further to the delays and creates even more chaos.
Train Crews can just as easily get stuck in the wrong places for their next Train connection, alongside passengers, many miles away from their scheduled destination and it soon tips the Rail Network into chaos with trying to rearrange and reassign other Train Crews (who may be waiting at other Stations ready to staff other Trains) at such short notice.
That’s my niece’s job as a train planner, she now trains other train planners to plan trains. She works from Manchester and the recent strikes were a complete nightmare. The worst times are when a driver is taken ill. Strangely enough she loves her job!
Lez wrote: "That’s my niece’s job as a train planner, she now trains other train planners to plan trains. She works from Manchester and the recent strikes were a complete nightmare. The worst times are when a ..."Of course the real problem comes with a lack of communication to the end customer. You see this regularly in airports. Often the information desk is not notified of the reason for the delay and this can result in unnecessary frustration on both sides of the desk when passengers are worried about meeting an important appointment.
Most of us assume that somewhere the machinery is busily working away and things will get sorted ASAP. It's the not knowing that is nerve-racking
For me the biggest nightmare is what a changed Service may be?If I've got a long but Direct Train Service booked and then it gets changed to another one, having connections at various Stations along the way, then I always have to give up on my travel plans - as a lot of small local Stations still have very limited or have no Disabled Access at all.
I can't risk getting stranded on a Platform somewhere with no way for me to get myself off it again except for getting on yet another Train onto another Station that has got some kind of Disabled Access.
I can't be adaptable and as flexible on my travel plans anymore.
suzysunshine7 wrote: "For me the biggest nightmare is what a changed Service may be?If I've got a long but Direct Train Service booked and then it gets changed to another one, having connections at various Stations al..."
It's bad enough if you're stranded and able-bodied but at least you can leave the station in disgust and go and sit in a cafe while you sort your head out.
I can't imagine how much worse it must be if there's no disabled access.
Not long ago I was stuck waiting on a platform at an unmanned station where the loos were locked owing to vandalism. There were no loos on the train when it came so I just had to hold it in until I got to my destination.Luckily it wasn't a very long journey and I wasn't too desperate.
I did however at one point consider trying to find some suitable trees or bushes I could hide behind. There weren't any near that station - just people's front gardens!
We have recently had two wonderful new Lift Shafts built onto either side of our Village's Railway Station where all of the four Platforms are situated up several long flights of Steps on a very high Bridge that spans the main road ... but the Lift System is turned off during the hours when the Station Staff are off-duty and one of them (and it varies which) seems to be almost always Out Of Order when they are switched on and in use.Me and my Mum went off to Manchester for a couple of hours one Sunday about 4 years ago. We came back at 3pm in the afternoon to suddenly then find that the Station Staff had already gone home and that they turned the Lifts off - although they are clearly sign-posted as staying switched on until around 5pm on Sundays ;oO
We were left with just two choices? ... to manually lift and carry the Wheelchair between us all the way up the two long flights of steps, push it over the Footbridge, and then lift it all the way back down two more long flights of steps to the Road outside and Car Park where my Dad was waiting in the Car for us? ... or to wait for about half an hour on the Platform for the next Train to go on further into Stockport/Manchester, then try to get off elsewhere, and get my Dad to follow us on in the Car to pick us up?
We both decided on lifting the Wheelchair as my Chair is thankfully actually quite light - and so we took our time, step after step, and we managed it between us - but I was still left feeling utterly exhausted and in terrible pain for hours afterwards and so I wouldn't want to have to ever attempt it again. And my Mum, although she is still extremely fit and active, is almost 80 and I felt far more helpless and upset for her in finding herself to be suddenly stuck with me like that.
This means that we choose to drive 3 miles on from our home to the Railway Station in next Village instead - so that I can rely on being able to get in and out more easily as the Station is all on Road level and has a Gateway that allows for 24 Hour access whenever the Station Building is locked and unmanned.
Normal Train Service is usually fine but on Trains put on due to cancelled Services I've been dropped off in Manchester on Platforms with no Disabled Access (such as the lesser used Platform One at Manchester Oxford Road) before now and had no choice but to stay on the Train or get onto the next Train to go further on, find somewhere I could get off and cross to the other side, then get the next Train going straight back again to where I wanted to go in the first place - LOL!!! ;o>
It's easy to forget to appreciate it when we still have our mobility. I can't do the rock-climbing, para-gliding etc. that I used to but I can still walk around without any assistance.I am a Strictly Come Dancing addict and I was very impressed by this group dance last night with the Strictly professionals and the Candoco Dance Company.
Mind you even they obviously have to have a certain level of fitness and lack of pain to do what they do. They're all pretty young.
https://youtu.be/b8LkktRbr_E
Wow?!! - I absolutely loved that Link! - thank you ;o>Maybe I am a bit biased on this? - but I felt like I personally got much more out of watching the more obviously Disabled Dancers position and push themselves in often quite extraordinary yet beautiful ways to be able to create such fluid and remarkable movements ;o>
A Link to something that fills my Heart with joy every time I watch it ;o> ...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_JiN...
It's funny, I was never interested in dance until I started watching Strictly. At first I just enjoyed seeing how complete beginners gradually transformed over the weeks. (Although these days some competitors come in already having skills)Now I have started to have an appreciation for the art itself.
This year Katy Piper, acid attack campaigner and paralympic medallist Lauren Steadman were both in the line-up and neither had danced before.
If you're interested Lauren is featured here. You can tell she's not a professional but frankly that's the appeal of Strictly for me.
https://youtu.be/YW3zdQpBiWA?list=RDr...
Actually - I should have asked: Do you watch strictly suzy?
I have watched in past years but I'm not very keen on all of the celebrity showbiz side to it with all the interviews - I just like (most of) the actual Dances ;o>My M&D love watching every series though. They actually met each other as teenagers in the late 1950's at the Osborne Bentley Dance School in Stockport - when my Dad was first partnered with my Nanna (Mum's Mum) and then with my Mum ;o>
I have no idea how my parents met although, come to think about it it might have been in a library - my mum worked in one.
TwoddleBungler wrote: "I have no idea how my parents met although, come to think about it it might have been in a library - my mum worked in one."Just the ticket? She wasn't left on the shelf.
Brass Neck wrote: "TwoddleBungler wrote: "I have no idea how my parents met although, come to think about it it might have been in a library - my mum worked in one."Just the ticket? She wasn't left on the shelf."
Groan - :-)
TwoddleBungler wrote: "Maybe the crew were being carried on the 11.01! :-)..."This happened at Birmingham Moor Street last Thursday. The 11:55 to Marylebone was expected to be delayed by 15 min "due to awaiting a crew member". As chance would have it, the 11:59 arrival from Marylebone was also delayed. And the longer the 11:59 was delayed, the later the departure of the 11:55 was expected to be. Eventually they did admit that the 11:55 departure couldn't leave because the guard - sorry, "train manager" - was still on the delayed 11:59 arrival.
As I was only going as far as Solihull I got on the 12:01 to Stratford-upon-Avon (delayed by 8 minutes because of goblins on the track or some such) and left them to it.
suzysunshine7 wrote: "I'm not very keen on all of the celebrity showbiz side to it with all the interviews - I just like (most of) the actual Dances..."This is why I only watched Strictly Get Me on the Telly once. If there were actually any dancing in it I'd quite like to watch it. But I think there's something like 6 minutes of dancing in an 85-minute episode.
Gordon wrote: "... (delayed by 8 minutes because of goblins on the track or some such) ..."Now that's much more of an interesting excuse! ;o>
For me it's like a blend of escapism and sport.Escapism because it's nothing like real life and as I no longer believe in Father Christmas I need something to distract me from the news
Sport because you pick a couple of favourites and then support them, hoping they get through the eliminations.
I never liked horse-racing. I don't bet so I don't care who wins
TwoddleBungler wrote: "... as I no longer believe in Father Christmas ..."(* ! GASP ! *) ... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO?!! ;oO
A librarian’s life was quite fraught - we were always worried about not getting dates, or being taken out and even more if we were overdue.
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