You've Had an Accident SCAM! Avoid the scammers
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- Don't get fooled. If someone calls you to say that you have had a road traffic accident. Don't believe them. If they say they are from a FeedBack Service - beware!
They called me - and I recorded the conversation. I then called the people they said had given them my name and found out they hadn't at all. It was a SCAM! They were phishing!
I normally tell them that the accident was fatal, I was the fatality. They still go on apart from when I tell them I'm leaning over their shoulder and I can see everything in the afterlife...
That's just the sort of thing I would do :-)
Take it further tell them every time something falls it was you, tell them if you listen closely they can hear you speak, every time they see a certian color its cause they are forever cursed
😂👍🤣
My youngest brother would do the same type of thing if a scammer called. Cops would ask him where was he going after pulling him over for nothing(DWB) he would tell them things such as, “to the moon” or “to get some donuts”😂
I just tell them, "I'm sorry I can't answer any of your questions because of data protection laws"!
i ask them for the name of their fave pet
1st 3rd & 6th letters of a password
they hang up
Nicely handled Richard! Makes me laugh when they say 'due to data protection I can't tell you' when they rang YOU!
Yes - all very suspicious from the start - hence why I grabbed the recorder. :)
Yes the confidentiality is in YOUR favour not the person on the other line and you can break your confidentiality at any stage if you choose. It's a common tactic used in scams where they really don't have any info, but unfortunately, gullible/elderly/scammable people tend to believe it.
Tim Roberts Well put.
I always tell them I’ve had 3 accidents in the time period and ask what one they are referring to. When they quote DPA I ask where the accident they’re ringing about took place. They can’t tell me. Ok when did it take place and again they can’t tell me. We then discuss how I can help them if they can’t clarify which one of the 3 accidents they’re ringing up about. I keep the call going till either they or I get bored.
Common sense would wipe that laugh off your face.
The data protection bit is proof that this is not a scam.
Here is the scam:
They purchase a list of names who have recently had an accident. (some times as can be heard the list is incorrect).
They then go through the accident to see if a possible claim could be had for that individual. If they think so they then pass on the details to a solicitor who gets in touch with the person who had the accident and on their behalf set about getting them a nice big juicy payout that they did not realise they could get. The call centre gets a commission from the solicitor.
No scam. Just an over-imaginative TH-camr making a false video to get advertising revenue - now there is a scam!
Scammers phoned my son , He said yes I had an accident, I died , scammer carried on talking for another 10 minutes 😂😂😂
ask them for their mums maiden name
fave pet name
etc etc
The cheek of them! How revolting. Thank you for making this public.
My pleasure.
These scammers get worse. Thank you Richard for sharing your way of dealing with the idiots.
Last time I had one of these calls I told them that my head was decapitated in the accident.
I said the same, it took them a good fees seconds to process that
@@garethchesters2516 😀 With me they finally cottoned on after about half an hour when I must have told them three times.
Love it! The best way to catch them out is to ask them who they want to speak to. Amazingly it's always the person who answers the phone who's apparently had the accident!
My friends and I still all get these calls all the time, best part is, I don't drive, never mind own a car. What are they trying to achieve
Watch the video again.
Here is the scam:
They purchase a list of names who have recently had an accident. (some times as can be heard the list is incorrect).
They then go through the accident to see if a possible claim could be had for that individual. If they think so they then pass on the details to a solicitor who gets in touch with the person who had the accident and on their behalf set about getting them a nice big juicy payout that they did not realise they could get. The call centre gets a commission from the solicitor.
No scam. Just an over-imaginative TH-camr making a false video to get advertising revenue - now there is a scam!
"Data protection" gets them out of answering any awkward questions.
Exactly. "Data Protection" means that information should be used fairly and in a way which is relevant and limited to what is necessary, but also transparrently.
These people aren't even human beings.
How they can do their jobs I do not know!
They steal thousands from people and they don't feel bad
@@RichardVobes She was Scouse, perhaps that has something to do with it.
she sounds like a scouse scrammell smack head
@@mwoxo that's Scouse-ist 😂
Brilliant how these Indians have learned a scouse accent .
A Scouser Indian.
I told them I had a terrible accident outside the front of John Lewis. Went on on and on for ages with my story about the accident. Finally told them the accident was in my pants.
That's the line I give them too, after 15 minutes or so. I farted and followed through.
Haha and I though I was being original. I will record it one day.
I normally tell them I had an accident in the care.
Was anyone hurt? The wife. Really really hurt.
What happened? Well, I was in the back seat with Vera.
Is Vera your wife? No.
Whose Vera? Well to be delicate about it, she is the mistress.
What happened? Well, it's really bad. The condom broke, Vera is pregnant and worst of all, the wife has found out and is now divorcing me.
That's costing me hundreds of thousands of pounds. I'd like to claim on my insurance for the broken condom. The policy says I can claim for accidents.
🤣🤣💕
Lol
Amazing! A scam call where they didn't have a thick Indian accent, for a change! Wonders never cease!
But it was scouse
Be careful though some scammers use voice changers
I came to find this type of video about the exact same call my family got... they just ended the call but you tackled this so well! 😂😂
Thank you so much! Thanks for listening! :)
Let me guess. Someone in your family is a Trump supporter or a conservative. That's why the scammers choose your family as the target for scamming. This morning , I received a scam call almost right after I posted a pro-Trump comment or reply on TH-cam. This happened about four times. I think the radical leftists in the USA are in collusion with the scammers in India.
I had one of these calls and I said I must have hit my head badly in the accident and be suffering from amnesia as I can’t remember it!
They gave up with me, everytime they called me I would reply "that one, yes the one where your boss ran in to the back of my car" suddenly there was a click and they hung up on me 😂😂😂
I have suddenly got 6 of these calls in last few days. This has made a new comeback. No information can be found about this online. How Fing nice
I told them I was driving a borrowed Lamborghini and someone in a company car forced me off the road. I kept them talking for ten minutes until they asked how I knew it was a company vehicle that forced me off the road. I said the company name was on the side. They asked what it was and I spelled it out: P-O-L-I-C-E.
The scammer hung up on me when I say, "You want my credit card number, don't you?" instead of waiting for him to ask for it.
My friend once had a call saying he had won a free conservatory and could they come and measure for it. He said "sure why not"
He lived in a first floor maisonette
I migrated to the UK, bought my first mobile sim card and within an hour of activating it... I was called.
I am fluent in English but I used the strongest Spanish accent I could with a worse than broken English to annoy the caller... Who talked about me having an accident when I wasn't even in the UK yet.
When they ask me when the accident was, I tell them I don't know because I was killed outright...
Good one. I had a similar call a week a go and I said the accident has just happened and I was still under the car waiting to be cut free!
@@RichardVobes Priceless!.
So do I. 😂😂😂
"Can you describe the accident?"
"Certainly. We were driving down the motorway and there was this enormous logging truck in front of us. It started speeding and one of the straps holding the logs down snapped and they began careening off the back. We veered into the next lane in time, but the person behind us unfortunately wasn't as lucky and got impaled by a falling log. Long story short, there was a huge multicar pile up caused by this logging truck, made worse by the fact a fuel truck was involved and when it hit the logging truck it exploded and killed almost everyone in the area.
Ah wait, that's the start of Final Destination 2. My bad. "
I love your sense of humor! Your description of the accident took on a life of its own, and developed into one disaster after another. The possibilities of elaborating are endless, and you could have kept adding until you finally ended up in a snowdrift in the Antarctic! You could have wasted the scammer's whole day as you complied with their request for details of the accident. You were being most most cooperative. 😂😂
Ask them to hold on for a second as there is someone at the door. After 5 minutes check to see if they are still there. If they are either laugh at them or ask them to hold on for a second as you need to take a bath
I've used this tactic a few times on scam callers. I sound my front door bell (just have to reach across to the cordless unit and press a button) then ask them to hang on for a moment or two. Then...
i literlly just got off the phone and the girl sounds exactly her on this video. LMAO!
Same
Scouser?
yes
@@jeffarmstrong3017 it's a Chester number and a Liverpool accent, possibly even a wirral accent which is closer to Chester x
@@liztrueman57
Why do you think all scam centres operate from India? and not a Chester number operated by a scouse girl?
Tick tock.....Tick tock.....
I once got into an argument with a phony "tax collector" that devolved into him getting so angry he finished by telling me he had "done" both my mother and my wife. Except for that last part, I had a lot of fun!
He sounds like a nasty man fore sure!
Scammer: Hello I heard recently you have been involved in and accident.
Me: No it wasn't an accident we chose to have the kid.
Good one! :)
Can always tell these because there is always a few seconds delay between them ringing you and you hearing a voice.
These people keep calling me, I never had a driving license or a car, wtf
Id love to fart
Her parents were involved in an accident about 25 years ago. It was her conception.
This morning they called me too about an accident, i said "yeah i know my girlfriend is pregnant i should have use the condom yesterday" they call me every morning and it's a nice way to beat the loneliness while you cook pasta
They always hang up after I ask the same questions.
My goddaughter lives in the Outer Hebrides. When she gets one of these calls she starts talking to them in Gaelic. They soon hang up!
I just got one on Whatsapp. 5 mins after downloading the App.
They need to put these people in jail. They waste billions of hours.
Incidentally I had call the same yesterday!
We're on the same list then! :)
Hi Richard, I have had one of these calls a few years ago. I just listened quietly to their rubbish, then turned around and told them, I've been in a car accident have I, well that's funny, I don't own a car or drive. They come back with 'but were you a passenger in an accident' I say no, this went on for about 20 minutes. They didn't understand that I did not own a car.
These scammers target conservatives and Trump supporters for scamming. Accident scam is just one of their various scams.
A similar call I had last week, told the caller I did not drive, he said I must have been the passenger, I told him I have been in Covid lock down for last 12 months. Long story short, he accepts that I have never been in an accident, he then asks if I want to earn £4k any way. I asked him to hold and placed the phone next to the Hi -Fi Speaker and let him listen to some music for 20 minutes, he held on the daftie.
I had one of these and the caller tried to get me to claim a neck injury for 3 grand.
This happened to me one time the woman said have you been in a car accident lately? I think. Someone from my family picked up and told me it was a scam then they hung up .
Hi Richard we have the same thing happening in New Zealand all sorts of scams, I just put the phone down on them.
That is the best thing to do Terry!
I always say "yea. I had an accident. Didnt survived"
I an unknown number calls me, i always reply with " Hello ! " and nothing else. I don`t trust the person right away. It could be a scammer.
Good policy.
A scouser on the rob... by phone! They're getting even lazier!
Had a similar phone call not long ago. It lasted a few seconds only. When I told "That's weird, because I don't own a car and I don't drive" she hung up. I might play along next time these leeches call.
Was it yourself or your brother who was killed in the crash, it must have been me because I don’t have a brother🤣😂😭
😂😂😂feedback information is very limited 😂😂😂😂😂
Once when I had a scam call I just told them "you are a scammer now clear off and don't phone here again"
I get this call about 4 times a year and I don’t even own a car or have a license. One time I got this call while studying with my friend, the look on his face was priceless after I picked up the phone and screamed “f#ck off you wankers” and hung up. 😂
I get these calls regularly. Just hang up. Sometimes they are auto calls, with recording of voices, with pauses in all the right places. Just stay quiet and they will continue a conversation, as if you had spoken.
Don’t hang up just put the phone under a cushion and let them talk ! The least you are doing is blocking one of their phone lines! And with any luck frustrating the hell out of them!
The story behind these calls is that they are ambulance chasers, who have a list of basic details from the Motor Insurance Bureau regarding MINOR traffic collisions/insurance claims. I had insurance with Tesco and found out they SOLD the basic information of the crash (so probably thousands of incidents nationwide), which includes name, contact telephone number and the fact that the incident involved a non-fault claim. They do not have any more info and will go on a fishing trip to glean the other information, so that they (essentially hooky solicitors) can lodge an injury claim against the other party (at fault). Whilst this type of call is not, in fact, a scam, in all honesty, you will probably be successful with a claim. HOWEVER, and this is the big 'however', they will most likely lodge - and win - a claim for whiplash or back pain because these are injuries that take a few days to present signs and symptoms. And the reason for them chasing you? Well, in most cases, incidents are reported to insurance companies within an hour or two - and one of the questions asked is "are there any injuries to any party?". Unless an injury is present and obvious, then the question is replied in the negative; whiplash injuries can take several days to manifest, but by this time, the paperwork for the claim is well underway - and being a minor incident, the details are pretty much straight forward. Cars are fixed, but [you] have that niggling pain in your neck, that you just live with (whiplash!) Fast forward to the ambulance chaser phone call (usually 4 -6 months later), and if you are lured by their charms, you will probably find yourself explaining the pain in your neck that you had developed a few days after reporting the incident, but which also lasted for about 3 months. And THIS is where they will fight your battle to win compensation, and in all likelihood, win. But, the issue comes to receiving your compo payout... ...The ambulance chaser 'fee' can be up to 50% of your winnings. So, the next time you hear 'no win, no fee' don't be surprised that you are not being represented by a QC in a major trial. And for this reason, insurance companies have stopped (in most cases) accepting claims of compensation for whiplash.
From which country you belong to?
Brilliant! Top man I've just sent this to my step father who falls for these all the time👍🏻
Fantastic!
I can tell you they do have access to insurance companies, they knew my mobile number and the date I had a accident and the only way that could have been known is for my insurance company to have given that information too them ,it's for "accident solicitors" to make a claim.
The last time one of these scammers rang me. I told them that a live investigation was ongoing into a fatal RTA which I'm not allowed to reveal under the terms of an NDA.
Well done Richard. I enjoyed the call.
Cool beans - thanks for watching/listening.
Had a call from the exact same number. The way I got rid of them I just say either
"Shit was I ok after the accident"
Or my favourite is
"Yeah it was awful I died it was really sad"
Not had another call from them whatsoever or you can just go with the good oldie but goodie and answer saying battersea dogs home or pizza hut lol
I've had this same call too. So annoying. I also get one telling me it's "Windows Support Team and we've detected a threat to your computer" etc etc etc... which tickles me (especially as I don't own a PC).
Yes - it can be a hoot when you are in the know! :)
I’ve heard this exact voice before xD
They phoned me and told me that I'd had accident, "true" said I. I crapped, my pants at the Bus stop while suffering from the shits. Boy didn't the passengers know about it. 💩💩💩💩💩💩
I don't even drive and a lady from UK just phoned me and said she have been informed I have had accident. I told her I don't drive then she said sorry.
I learned a wee trick that they love.
"Can you tell me the name of the person you are contacting?"
Good one.
I’ve done the very same today, asked them to tell me about this accident and after 5 mins the guy lost it with me lol
They're such a pain in the back side. Had one again the other day off a number looking like a mobile,oh I'm calling about you're recent car accident,I said look I haven't had a recent car accident now stop calling my phone and she turned around and said one moment I'll pass you to my supervisor so I hung up and blocked the number. Arseholes
So law firms are paying these call centers for the information? The Law Society needs to get all its shit in one sock.
Fancy using a Scouser on a telephone call and expecting you to think they were not 'scallys'!
I usually say to them "I bet your parents are really proud of you..."
If you have had an accident, they call you about 5-10 times a day, wanting you to claim, they even had the cheek to ask to speak to my wife (the driver at the time) and try to bypass me. They said they could get £2,900 per passenger. Just scammers.
She was a scouse thats for sure
Perhaps she knows where my hubcaps are?
They normally claim to be calling from my solicitors office, but never know my name lol
I was shocked to hear no indian accent!!!!😲😲😲😲😲😲OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There's not even such a thing as the "motor insurance bureau". And the Motor Insurers Bureau might have grounds for complaint when scammers use a name that is so similar to their own!
I had one of these calls late last year, although I think it was a robot type, where it sounds like a human but with really bad punctuation. Thing is, I don't even have a driver's licence, so how could I have been involved in a car accident?! 😒
Still haven't worked out what they actually want.???? It's not even on Google.
Is it normal for me not understanding the phone caller accent 😅
this happened to me a few times & what makes it so rediculous is i dont own a car nor do i drive so there is no way i could have crashed a car that ive never had & not permitted to drive in the first place
I received a call and I told them I'd crashed into several vehicles and it was my fault and I was glad that I had done it - Dodgems are great
What EVERYONE needs to do is pick up their computers and register with the TPS. Telephone preference Service. What you then do is when you get one of these SCAMMERS CALIING you ask, " How did you obtain my number"? Remember folks, in the UK at least, you have some protection against NUISANCE callers. You tell the caller "This is a nuisance call" if unsolicited. The only way you'll get a call is more than likely from OUTSIDE the UK. It will then be Michael from India calling you, More than likely. 🤔🤣
Told them was involved ....but don't say ...yes I was... Most important, told them my wheel barrow come into garden wall and a buckled wheel, can I claim these bloody fools said I can.
Every time they ring, I ask the name of their company/organisation, which is clearly not data protected… They mumble something random quickly… ask them to spell that slowly. They hang up immediately lol.
They are at it again.
I got so fed up with their wasted calls I went out and had an accident boy I felt silly explaining this to the police.
I told the operator that my knackers were accidently removed by the firemen who cut me out of the wreckage. They soon put the phone down on me!
“You’ve had an accident “, oh dear, was I hurt ?
So the scam here is them seeing if you got the compensation you deserve by fishing to see if you've had an accident and then points you to solicitors and make you pay?
Sounds like a cold call from solicitors, file under ambulance chasers.
Exactly!
I got this call once and I dont even have a Car.
Us Aliens Got Scammed
When Our Saucer Crashed
Now We’re forced to Beg
Outside Supermarkets
how to get them to hang up... ask them "waht's the name of the person you are after?" it works most cases except when they have stolen data.
Quoting data protection reasons for not disclosing information which isn’t subject to the DPA18 but having the data subjects name and telephone number...🧐🤪
I had some of them phone calls they got quite aggressive with me when I said I had no accident and then they said they were calling the people as I was lying about a accident never had a phone call from the police or them again
what the hell? as a scouser, I apologise for this shamefull behaviour! matey. what a silly bint.
There's no need to apologise, Chris. The shame is not yours mate. It lies firmly on the shoulders of these scumbag scammers!
Just got off the phone to them. After 5 minutes they asked if I had an injury.
They hung up after I told them dislocated my lung.
lol
That voice sounds exactly like the lady I spoke to the other day,she hung up
I just say "scammer, bye" or I just troll them.
That's the funniest thing he is asking her for his registration. But she can't because data protection but it's his own vehicle. Golden globe award for dumbness.
What's the point reporting them just block and move on sad really 😢
I got a similar call and wasted as much time as possible then called him out on it
How do they actually steal your money if all they do is refer you to a named Solicitor's firm that might help if you were involed in a real accident and perhaps could be entitled to some sort of compensation?
Also the Solicitor's named would obviously be in cahoots with these cold callers.
I have had dozens of these calls and just immediately hang up.
They are touting for business
Often wondered what Esther McVey was doing these days .
I get these all the time I don't take the call if think it's them
Aren't scousers wonderful! Especially the boring nasal monotone ones. But people who say "right, no problem" where no problem has been identified to be able to allow the person to declare there is no problem are worse.
A scam caller that does not have a Pakistani accent....PMSL.
Properly just an intern from abroad
The woman has a scouse accent. Liverpool being close to Chester, 01244. Common sense alone would dictate that a UK accent may not be a scam.