Friday, May 04, 2007
0800 389 1652
I got a call today from Barclays fraud detection team. They left a message asking me to call them on 0800 389 1652. I found this:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-old/spam/
and decided not to call it.
Instead I rang Barclays myself and eventually got through to the team. I told them about this once my own suspected fraud query was resolved and they asked for the number. "That's our number" I was told. The caller said she'd look into it and I suggested they put that number on the Barclays website. Of course I could be one of the scammers at 0800 389 1652 but until Barclays do put that number somewhere where it is clearly a Barclays number, ring the number on the back of your card to get to the bottom of the matter.
I am really grateful for people like Charlie (of Charlie's diary) who alert us to scams but I tend not distruct all foreign sounding people :)
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-old/spam/
and decided not to call it.
Instead I rang Barclays myself and eventually got through to the team. I told them about this once my own suspected fraud query was resolved and they asked for the number. "That's our number" I was told. The caller said she'd look into it and I suggested they put that number on the Barclays website. Of course I could be one of the scammers at 0800 389 1652 but until Barclays do put that number somewhere where it is clearly a Barclays number, ring the number on the back of your card to get to the bottom of the matter.
I am really grateful for people like Charlie (of Charlie's diary) who alert us to scams but I tend not distruct all foreign sounding people :)
