"All ready knew my phone number email and tried to say i had a bitcoin account with money in and wanted bank details"
Impersonation calls
2,375 community reports tagged Impersonation call across 2,238 numbers.
Recent activity
Reports tagged Impersonation call are steady: 72 reports in the last 7 days, in line with a usual 74.1 reports a week.
When people report it
Tuesday is the busiest day for these reports, and 57% are filed in the afternoon (12pm to 6pm). Times are when the report was submitted, which is usually soon after the call.
Verdict
98% of reporters rated these calls spam or suspicious. The most common call type is Mobile Network Scam (EE, O2, Three, Vodafone).
Numbers used
Reports tagged Impersonation call cover 2,238 different numbers. 300 of them were first reported in the last 30 days, so a number you have not seen before can still be part of the same pattern.
Reports over time
Reports per day over the last 30 days. Reports per week over the last 12 weeks. Red weeks had at least double the usual volume. Reports per month over the last year.
How people rate these calls
- Spam 1,342 · 57%
- Suspicious 995 · 42%
- Unknown 37 · 2%
- Safe 1 · 0%
Most common call type: Mobile Network Scam (EE, O2, Three, Vodafone)
Busiest days
All reports by the day they were submitted.
Time of day
When reports are submitted, UK time.
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Night 12am to 6am 20
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Morning 6am to 12pm 650
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Afternoon 12pm to 6pm 1,358
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Evening 6pm to 12am 347
Latest reports
"Claimed to be from BT Head Office that we are overpaying for a connected line. Unsure if legitimate but he called back even after I hung up the first time."
"Claimed to be from my bank claimed to be preventing fraud"
"Said i had a suspicious amazon gift card purchase press 1 to speak to a representative."
"Automated HMRC message said it was His Majesty's revenue and I just hung up"
"Fake detective saying your number has been identified for large crypto transactions. Stupid scammers trying to intimidate people. Same stupid script they always have"
"After a clunky connection, a lady with a southern English accent announced she was "Sarah, calling from the Home Assessment Team". I said immediately "Which home assessment team, from which organisation? " She replied with a script about referrals. Once again I did not get a straight answer to "Which organisation?", so blocked the number and hung up."
"Text received supposedly from Uber with a verification code in the text message."
"Called and left message claiming to be from "Community" alleging that we had initially initiated an outbound call (which was untrue)"
"Impersonating as "Detective Richards" from the Gloucester police and telling me that someone other than me had used my personal information for online transactions."
"Asked for account/card details Claimed card had been used are tried to get receiver to confirm details"
"Claimed to be from my bank fraud team, 5 large amounts left my account putting me in debt!!"
"claiming to be tesco mobile- calling on whatsapp"
""New number" WhatsApp scam called and claimed to be Adam Carter Lloyds security and claimed i have been frauded etc and money gone out of account"
"Mentioned suspicious activity and wanted code sent be Amazon over WhatsApp for my account. I hung up on them"
"Didn't verify their identity robo bobo"
"Claims to be from the government ministry of health, but speaks with an American accent, then the rest of the call is in Chinese!"
"Telling me that I needed to check an account for a company, whose name I didn't recognise and couldn't hear it very well - when I questioned it - he said, you might have used it a couple of years ago to purchase something online - at which point I hung up. It didn't come up as flagged as potential fraud or spam on my phone, which is why I answered it."
"They claimed to be from our estate agent who is selling a property for us but they were unaware it is already being sold. We checked with our estate agency and they confirm it was nothing to do with them."
"“from the Ministry of Health. We have tried to contact you multiple times, but have been unable to reach you. For details, please press 8 for English, or press 9 for Chinese.…”"
"Automated call claiming to be Lloyds Bank fraud prevention, hung up checked with Lloyds this is a scam number."
"Felt like a scam . Automated voice saying money had been spent on my account. Said i need to ring them"
"We have Mr. Muhindo Nicodemus from Uganda emailing us about been getting messages from the person named Rose Bradbury/Branbury. She has been impersonating as a staff from We Caare group in the DRC where we have no branch and we are only operational in the UK. She has been asking him to register orphans in my region and later on said that she's sending relief items to them. She has a team that she says it's distributing these items and her team has taken his money of USD 978. Her contact number that she Uses is +447727735681. She uses Rose Branbury as her name and says she's your staff. She uses your organisation name to fraud people. In Uganda she uses Mr Agaba Emmanuel as an agent."
"Claimed to be from Amazon and reported that £800 had been spent on an apple voucher!"