Fresh warning over Royal Mail scam as student duped out of 'every penny' she had

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‘Then I thought, no scammer is going to need those to scam me because sort code and account number is what you use to pay into the account.’The day after, she received a phone call from a man purporting to be from Barclays’ fraud line, informing her that someone had tried to set up direct debits in her account to Vodaphone and Curries/PC World, while a £300 transaction had been attempted at Argos.

The student said she was ‘rushing’ out at the time to meet a friend and had low battery, so quickly transferred everything she had across her three accounts until her balance was at £0.00. ‘It didn’t work, confirming what I guess I already knew. I broke down in tears there and then and he hung up.’ A Royal Mail spokesperson said it will only contact customers via SMS or email if the sender has requested it as part of a tracking service.

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