Latest Ebay Phone Scam

[freddie*rooster]

Recorded message advising me I have purchased an item on

ebay for $300 if this purchase is incorrect press 1 to speak to

an ebay operative.

[instylecollectables]

One rule I go by is never answer private numbers or numbers I don't know.

I have a leave message service so if it's important then they'll leave a message.

I've also noticed over time the scam calls seem to only ring 3 times and then hang up so once the call ends I go straight to block this number and block it.

Mind you I have 100s of blocked numbers on my phone, some may of been important but I'll never know.

[gutterpunkz05]

I thought it was  Knock Three Times,   My phone only rings 8 times before diverting

[thatmosis]

Third one this fortnight but this time I pressed 1 and when a person came on the line gave them a gob full  using words that would make a wharfie blush, they hung up on me, funny that. Hopefully they will have taken my phone number off their list but then again...

[sandypebbles]

Nope

All pressing 1 has done is confirmed you are a real phone number and the person on the other end will play along with pressing 1 (the scammers could'nt care less what the person says when they do so) and it will be circulated to all their scammer mates as well

I hope this was not a smart phone you used to press 1

(Have a read through the many posts on the forum of what has resulted when other people went right on a head and 'pressed 1') 

It will have you swearing at yourself 

[imastawka]

Worse.

It gives them access to your phone.

Change all your passwords now.

Never press 1

[sandypebbles]

Indeed

Hardly worth the couple of seconds satisfaction of thinking you have offended a scammer

[imastawka]

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[jennie_723]

Same thing happened to me today.  Recorded message said an amount will be debited from my card and call them.  
i called the scammer and he said “I purchased a gift card last night”.  
and if I want to cancel the order I need  to download an application called TEAMVIEWER from play store and that’s when it clicked that they were trying to gain access to my phone.   I hang up and told them that I’ll call my bank and report a fraudulent transaction.