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Brunzy

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#250640 20-May-2019 12:36

Just had a call with a recorded message , something about hacked , tracing your ip ,
“ Press 1 to speak to our executive”

@ Hio 77 I have the ( 09) No if its of any use to you

Rikkitic

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#2241361 20-May-2019 12:50

I had that the other day. Definitely a scam. For one thing I'm not on Spark.

Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

Mistenfuru

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#2241390 20-May-2019 13:28

We've been getting heaps of calls of this from Customers on Our network (NOW NZ)

Numbers are constantly changing too

World of Warcraft Veteran, Avid Sci-Fi Geek.

ISP - Technical Support - Lines and infrastructure.

Dulouz

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#2241391 20-May-2019 13:30

There was a Spark Scam advert on Metservice the other day, my wife was super excited to be the winner of a new smartphone. All she had to do was send them the courier money.

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