discussion Is this safe to pay?

[Guest]

To be an aunt Laurie all you need to do is get in touch with your feminine side. Perhaps wearing high heels a couple of times a week? I can recommend it! !!!!!!!!!

What size shoe do you wear? When you are modelling and have your feet under the bench, your wife would never know!!!

Post a picture!!! We can give you five stars! !!!!

 

[Guest]

Young m

To be an aunt Laurie all you need to do is get in touch with your feminine side. Perhaps wearing high heels a couple of times a week? I can recommend it! !!!!!!!!!What size shoe do you wear? When you are modelling and have your feet under the bench, your wife would never know!!!

Post a picture!!! We can give you five stars! !!!!

Young man (used in the very widest term) you Aidan. I do not have a feminine side. But I do like a feminine by my side. Neither do I like high heel shoes on females or for that matter males. But Aidan if that is your game!

Laurie

 

[Guest]

Thanks for calling me young! I hope my humour has not offended you? This is the problem with sending electronic messages. The spirit and intention of the message is hard to convey. And I refuse to ever put LOL.

 

[Guest]

No at all good fun Aidan enjoy your presence back on this forum. Like the repartee all good natured and just carry on Nephew !

Any way what are you doing at the moment ?

Laurie

 

[Guest]

Hi Laurie

Well it's tricky. You may recall that about 100 years ago I started doing the 1/72 Airfix dambusters land? I got it about one third done and then my work life took over. I'm a teacher (well a bit more than that) in a school and it takes up so much time. I got a bit done over this summer hols but not much. I'm having to write new courses for new GCSES which start in September and a new A-level. It takes hundreds of hours and I've spent a lot of the summer doing that.

We go hack on Monday for an eight week half term but I'n determined to do a bit of modelling a couple of times a week. Let's hope!

 

[stona]

I just got this nice email from the NatWest.

"Dear Customer,

During a recent review of your account we found that you are currently logging in from different cities in a suspicious manner that is not compliant with our bank policies. NatWest customers are not permitted to log in from different places at same time, or using proxies. For your safety, we have temporarily deactivated your account, to reactive your account please go to our SSL secure link below and update your account credentials. However, please note that our squad reserves the right to close your account at any time. As such, we encourage you to become familiar with our program policies and monitor your network accordingly.

[spurious link here]

Kind regardsJayashree C

NatWest Internet Banking Customer Support"



Now, I feel the least I should do is to reactivate my account by filling in all the details as requested......if only I had a NatWest account

Cheers

Steve

 

[Lee W]

I just got this nice email from the NatWest."Dear Customer,

During a recent review of your account we found that you are currently logging in from different cities in a suspicious manner that is not compliant with our bank policies. NatWest customers are not permitted to log in from different places at same time, or using proxies. For your safety, we have temporarily deactivated your account, to reactive your account please go to our SSL secure link below and update your account credentials. However, please note that our squad reserves the right to close your account at any time. As such, we encourage you to become familiar with our program policies and monitor your network accordingly.

[spurious link here]

Kind regardsJayashree C

NatWest Internet Banking Customer Support"



Now, I feel the least I should do is to reactivate my account by filling in all the details as requested......if only I had a NatWest account

Cheers

Steve

Your not the only one Steve, I had an email from Nat West saying an unauthorised login attempt failed, press 'continue' to log back in...what Nat West account!!!???

Lee

 

[stona]

It's just so badly done. It refers to National Westminster as NatWest. It says a customer is not permitted to log in from different places at different times and refers to proxy servers simply as proxies. It asks you to note that 'our squad' can close your account at any time. 'Our squad', what bank would use that phrase? You'd think these shysters could at least employ someone to write a convincing business letter.There's more, but to anyone with half a brain it just looks like a load of BS, quite apart from the fact that your bank would never contact you in this way.

Cheers

Steve

 

[Guest]

Just love all these spoofy things which arrive.

But have great fun when someone who is genuine (are they ?)arrives on the phone for some reason or another from a bank..

I ask them if they are genuine, can I trust them, can they give me my trusted password, mother's maiden name etc so that I can validate their phone call. How do I know who you are. There is in most cases a very strict silence. They just do not know how to react. This in itself shows how easy it is to gain a persons confidence as they have not been challenged previously.

Maddening is the use of people employed from foreign places who I cannot understand. Nothing against people from any where in the world being employed but to have to ask five or six times to repeat things is nuts.

Laurie

 

[stona]

Laurie, foreign call centres are inevitable. I have spoken to a nice lady in the Philipines about a technical issue recently, at least she didn't pretend to be somewhere else and was actually very helpful.

I have also worked in India, in Bangalore, which is almost an IT training centre for the sub-continent. Lots of smart,well educated, English speaking and computer literate young people to be found there. I worked with them for a month. Without going into detail that sort of person earns little more in a month than a similarly qualified person would earn in two, maybe three days here. That's why call centres are moving to India. I don't really have a problem with this. It's an area where we can't compete. We need to be looking at and educating our young people to work in areas where we can compete...but that's another question altogether.

Cheers

Steve

 

[Guest]

Steve think you have misinterpreted my thoughts.

I do not have a problem working with any race or person (except a certain person in Russia) and enjoying their company.

I have played cricket with Indian Pakistan West Indian Australian South Africans. I have worked, in my architectural career, along side Indian Engineers, West Indian Quantity Surveyors. Even Scottish bricklayers and Welsh plumbers. I also studied architecture along side numerous African people. I have had fun with all and worked well with all and respected their cultures. I have to admit that some, cultures, are to an Englishman a bit weird but then they may have thought the same about me and which I find very entertaining.

My son is due next year to marry into a lovely West Indian Family the numerous members who I have met and now adore. One for instance one invited us around about late morning. We arrived Aunty Teresa's flat in East London who wanted to feed us with fish and chips and was very upset when we said a bit heavy for 12:00 mid day. She was up set. But Lordy o Lordy she then produced the largest bottle of sherry you could imagine. Victor her brother and also future father in law to my son also on our first encounter produced five different bottles of rum. Ha ha who enjoyed themselves ! And therefore just to qualify my thoughts that is were I stand.

What does annoy me is that I cannot understand some of those employed by the banks and other similar institutions. It is their fault not the people they employ. They must ensure that we can understand them as it is a dis-service to the people they employ and also a dis-service to racialism. The banks etc. should have intensified training in English for their employees which will enhance their prospects.

Oh dear. QED.

Laurie

 

[Guest]

I got admit I get so fed up of these emails,lol, I most get around 20 or more sometimes a day????? they seem come from all over ie. some claiming be banks, paypal, and recently vouchers that I need to claim?

don't people find it annoying, and some I find hard to see how they expect people fall for it!!!! its like the phone calls lol, lucky Ive seemed put few them off lol

 

[stona]

Steve think you have misinterpreted my thoughts.

No Laurie, not at all. I too get annoyed trying to deal with people who can't understand what I'm saying It's not a case of political correctness gone mad, I couldn't care who they are or where they are based as long as they can deal competently with my call, and I understood you to be saying the same thing.

I was just explaining, with the benefit of some limited personal experience, why it is that our banks and many other organisations are moving their call centres abroad. It's just economics, the same reason Dyson vacuum cleaners are made abroad nowadays.

As for those annoying emails, they must work on the principle that it costs virtually nothing to send millions of them and they only need a very few to fall for the scam and they're well into profit.

Most of the emails, like mine, must get intercepted by a spam filter and never show up in an inbox. I've no idea why my 'NatWest' one got through.

Phone calls I've had recently are from a company who want us to make a medical claim for an accident involving SWMBO's car last year. I've asked and the caller(s) got our phone number from our insurance company. We are not likely to make a claim as the car (which was written off) was parked on the road outside our house with no one in it when some idiot drove into the back of it! I always ask why they are calling? Did I ask you to call me? Tell them not to call again and hang up.

Cheers

Steve

 

[Gern]

At least you actually had a car Steve! I've had several calls asking me about my recent car accident - I haven't owned a car for three years now.

Gern

 

[Guest]

At least you actually had a car Steve! I've had several calls asking me about my recent car accident - I haven't owned a car for three years now.Gern

They obviously know something you do not Dave.

Agree with all you say Steve. I just wanted to make sure that no one thought that it was a racialist based moan. Hence my lengthy explanation of my feelings.

Not sure if this is through out the UK but in Jersey we had a spate which went something like. I am the financial minister of the interior of an African territory some where. I have 3 million dollars to invest but need a deposit for this money. Cannot remember the detail but this went something like : but first i would have to have your £3000 to open the account to make it legal but this would be repayable plus 15% of the 3 million dollars. My explanation is very rough but the whole thing set out was very complicated and yet if you were dozy it seemed a great idea and was very plausible.

What I can not understand is some of these not very nice people could with all their expertise make themselves wealthy by channelling their brain power in legal stuff. Some of these computer hackers I would have thought could make a very nice living on the right side. Perhaps it is the excitement of fooling people that gives them the kicks and incentives to do this sort of thing.

Laurie