Tunisia calling ...

It's getting monotonous I suppose, writes Brian Byrne, but the scammers are really on a busy day. I just got another of those 'missed calls' from Tunisia ... and if I'd rung it back it would be clocking up euros out of my phone bill. Getting a lot of these now.

And earlier today, a friend detailed how she had just answered one of those 'Social Welfare' 083 calls to be told 'in a posh English voice' that her account was being used to 'launder money and deal in drugs'. She was, of course, 'going to be prosecuted ... unless' ... at that point she broke the call. The 'unless' would be an attempt to get her bank details to pay a charge to make the thing go away.

She's savvy about these. But there are probably still people out there who don't know what's going on ... and would be so scared that they'd give out the information.

When you're talking with your friends, especially the older ones, tell them about it. Being on guard is being safe.

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