Snowy560

I watched these three videos on Facebook and wondered if I would fall for a similar type of scam. Do you think you would??

SCAMS in Richmond – the Delivery Thief - Richmond Life

SCAMS in Richmond – the Phone Thief - Richmond Life

SCAMS in Richmond – the ATM Thief - Richmond Life

BristolUK

The second one looks a bit outdated with the collection of the card. I can remember being alerted to that kind of scam centuries ago and with the ability to clone a card, it seems a bit risky and unnecessary for someone to turn up and collect it. Also, the advice is to cut the card up or some other destruction.

I'm also not sure about the phone still being connected part. I don't dispute it because I remember many years ago putting the phone down but still being connected upon picking it up again if the other person hadn't put theirs down. But you wouldn't get a ring tone from dialling the number, as in the clip, because the line was still open.
Maybe if you were not paying attention you might think it was answered very quickly. But there wouldn't even be a dial tone. I never dial if there's no dial tone.

For the third one, I'm very suspicious when using a cash machine.

The first one could be trickier. I'd want to know who the delivery was from if I was being asked to pay something.

scilly

Transit in Vancouver installed new card reader machines at the sky train stations, so that people could use credit cards as well as the Compass Card.

On Sunday, they discovered that credit and debit card skimmers had been installed on the Compass Card vending machines at the Airport and at downtown station on the Canada Line from the Airport.

They have discovered the Airport vending machine was clean before Sunday but can't determine that for the other.

There hasn't been any such effort before the machines at the gates were changed to accept credit cards

MarkG

As someone who works with telephone switches on an irregular basis, the system is so clunky that I wouldn't be at all surprised if a crook could make your phone do all those things without much effort.

BristolUK