lancslass
Well-Known Member
HI ALL
Just wanted to let any geeks who are considering buying the new IPHONE aware of a scam that is going on and my fella fell for it and is now £100 lighter in his pocket.
when he got his iphone last week he took it home and charged it and once charged he activated it on itunes as told by the sales person at the car phone ware house.
5 mins after doing this he received a call from some one saying they where from O2 and they noticed they that he had taken the insurance for the phone with the carphone warehouse and he could offer the insurance through o2 for a better deal
mark liked what he heard and took out the insurance with the man from o2 for £100.
NO HE HAS NOT we have found that once you activate the iphone on the itunes website your details are being taken by a fraudulant company who ring you and pretend to be o2 and get you to take there insurance policy and take your bloody money.
As no one had the phone number mark though it could only be o2 and thought nothing off it.
we received a single sheet of paper yesterday from this bogus company stating we are now covered and when mark rang the company the number is a dead line......
alarm bells started ringing when the policy from the carphone warehouse came that mark hadnt cancelled (thank god) and with it a BEWARE LEAFLET explaing that bogus calls where being made selling insurance and most are a company with a swansea address and when we checked the certificate from the fake company we found it was a swansea address......
Im so bloody mad as o2 and carphone warehouse KNOW ABOUT THIS HAPPENING but never told us at the point when we where buying the bloody phone as they dont want people put off buying there latest new design.
We have had to get a new card sent out now for marks account as they have his card details
how can people sleep knowing they are ripping people off like this .
:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:
Just wanted to let any geeks who are considering buying the new IPHONE aware of a scam that is going on and my fella fell for it and is now £100 lighter in his pocket.
when he got his iphone last week he took it home and charged it and once charged he activated it on itunes as told by the sales person at the car phone ware house.
5 mins after doing this he received a call from some one saying they where from O2 and they noticed they that he had taken the insurance for the phone with the carphone warehouse and he could offer the insurance through o2 for a better deal
mark liked what he heard and took out the insurance with the man from o2 for £100.
NO HE HAS NOT we have found that once you activate the iphone on the itunes website your details are being taken by a fraudulant company who ring you and pretend to be o2 and get you to take there insurance policy and take your bloody money.
As no one had the phone number mark though it could only be o2 and thought nothing off it.
we received a single sheet of paper yesterday from this bogus company stating we are now covered and when mark rang the company the number is a dead line......
alarm bells started ringing when the policy from the carphone warehouse came that mark hadnt cancelled (thank god) and with it a BEWARE LEAFLET explaing that bogus calls where being made selling insurance and most are a company with a swansea address and when we checked the certificate from the fake company we found it was a swansea address......
Im so bloody mad as o2 and carphone warehouse KNOW ABOUT THIS HAPPENING but never told us at the point when we where buying the bloody phone as they dont want people put off buying there latest new design.
We have had to get a new card sent out now for marks account as they have his card details
how can people sleep knowing they are ripping people off like this .
:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:
