New Scam BET365

[BigWave]

Although BET365 is real (I've never used it), today I received an SMS (from www.m65k.com) stating that I'd won 6.5M Great British Pounds from BET365.
Went online to check what this was all about, and it turns out to be another scam. Damn - could have used some extra cash as a retiree.
I tried to go to the Collect page to have some fun, but my browser wouldn't allow it
So instead, I watched the local power company replace the power pole outside of my house, with power off all day. Was meant to be back on by 4pm.
Had a few laughs when they realised the pole was too wide at its base to fit the drilled hole, so they waited 1+ hours for a chainsaw so they could shave it off. Someone's head will roll!
After a few other stuff-ups (hitting overhead branches & the pole extractor hitting the cherry picker undoing wires, tying a wire bundle to a branch which then dropped etc), the power was finally on 1hr40 late.
An interesting day for a retiree of scams and stuff-ups.

 

[grubstake]

I got that same scam this morning. oop:

 

[Jaros]

Yes same here. erfect:

 

[Goldpick]

Likewise, received a text this morning. :/

 

[LONEWOLF]

Be careful 'clicking' on the links..... 'Paypal' is another one doing the rounds.... With that one, once you 'click' the link, they are in...

LW....

 

[Ded Driver]

I just cant comprehend how people get caught with the tax office scam, whereby people are told they have a debt & must pay by buying iTunes vouchers.
Surely everyone knows that the tax office doesn't deal in music vouchers!! And wouldn't a person check back with their accountant/tax return agent/etc, or actually ring the tax office for confirmation !?! Im pretty sure that everyone has heard of scammers by now!

 

[Occasional_panner]

Had a few laughs when they realised the pole was too wide at its base to fit the drilled hole, so they waited 1+ hours for a chainsaw so they could shave it off. Someone's head will roll!
After a few other stuff-ups (hitting overhead branches & the pole extractor hitting the cherry picker undoing wires, tying a wire bundle to a branch which then dropped etc), the power was finally on 1hr40 late.
An interesting day for a retiree of scams and stuff-ups.

Nah they would have loved that, lots of triple overtime time pay, you know how unionised labour works.

Nice big roof you have, should go off grid.

 

[Occasional_panner]

I just cant comprehend how people get caught with the tax office scam, whereby people are told they have a debt & must pay by buying iTunes vouchers.
Surely everyone knows that the tax office doesn't deal in music vouchers!! And wouldn't a person check back with their accountant/tax return agent/etc, or actually ring the tax office for confirmation !?! Im pretty sure that everyone has heard of scammers by now!

I spoke to a Ford dealer once, he laughed his head off at the sale price and cost of the extras they sold to customers.
His comment was "there are just so many gullible idiots here there is more than enough to keep me going for a lifetime"

Also did a job for two old blokes who were twins, they both got scammed out of hundreds of thousands by russian women, gooses were just so gullible.
I felt so sorry for them, didn't charge them for the job I did.

 

[Jaros]

The best rate I ever earned was double time and a half with a meal allowance for working public holidays.
I worked most of them