The UK seems to be a recent target for a scam Sky phone / email calls , I have warned all my adult children ,( I don't have Sky , but got a scam email from someone who did ) this is from a sky forum ,to give a flavour of the calls ..the scammers gain access to the users sky email and use their contacts email addresses to obtain various account perhaps ID info .. be aware .
I received 2 calls ths morning in the space of 10 mins, 1st was a women saying we are aware you having issues with broadband speed running slow at times ( which is true) and that there was an engineer in the area could i please log on to my laptop or device, when i said NO it wasnt convienient she hung up on me, so i relaised it was scam, Next call was a man, i siad i know its a scam becuase just had call, he siad i asure you it isnt a scam, i said yes it is a real staff member wouldnt hang up, he then also hung up. I then called sky ( by looking number up )to report but must have called a fake number as when i got through it sounded correct and i was asked to privide my Sky log in password, which i did, i was then put through to someone called Karen with scottish accent and suddenly quickly tranferred to another foreign lady, who when i started to explain Scam call just hung up on me.
so i have now changed my password, and tried to find a way of reporting this other than calling sky, which has proved some what diffcult and doesnt seem to be an option anywhere to report a scam, hence me know posting it on here. I have also reported it to BT OFCOM as they called from a number that when called back says it doesnt exisit,
I received 2 calls ths morning in the space of 10 mins, 1st was a women saying we are aware you having issues with broadband speed running slow at times ( which is true) and that there was an engineer in the area could i please log on to my laptop or device, when i said NO it wasnt convienient she hung up on me, so i relaised it was scam, Next call was a man, i siad i know its a scam becuase just had call, he siad i asure you it isnt a scam, i said yes it is a real staff member wouldnt hang up, he then also hung up. I then called sky ( by looking number up )to report but must have called a fake number as when i got through it sounded correct and i was asked to privide my Sky log in password, which i did, i was then put through to someone called Karen with scottish accent and suddenly quickly tranferred to another foreign lady, who when i started to explain Scam call just hung up on me.
so i have now changed my password, and tried to find a way of reporting this other than calling sky, which has proved some what diffcult and doesnt seem to be an option anywhere to report a scam, hence me know posting it on here. I have also reported it to BT OFCOM as they called from a number that when called back says it doesnt exisit,
