{"id":90636,"date":"2018-04-03T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=3ebd644a53ba8b7b746bb14558d69637"},"modified":"2018-04-03T08:00:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T08:00:29","slug":"news-story-dont-be-a-victim-of-insolvency-service-telephony-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=90636","title":{"rendered":"News story: Don\u2019t be a victim of \u2018Insolvency Service\u2019 telephony scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Insolvency Service has been made aware of a scam where members of the public are receiving telephone messages to make unscheduled and unnecessary calls to the Insolvency Service.<\/p>\n<p>Not only are unsuspecting members of the public being asked to make unnecessary calls but they are being asked to dial a telephone number that although does connect to the Insolvency Service, is not one of our official numbers and is a premium-rate number that costs a lot of money.<\/p>\n<p>The scam appears to be instigated by a website based outside of the UK, helplinecall.com, which provides direct telephone numbers of businesses in the UK but when used, will cost the caller a lot of money.<\/p>\n<p>The following tips will help prevent you being made another victim of telephony scams:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>If you\u2019re being asked to call the Insolvency Service but you are not going through a bankruptcy or insolvency matter \u2013 be careful as it could be a scam phone call<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Take a look at the number you\u2019re being asked to call \u2013 if it looks like it\u2019s a premium rate number then it might not be legitimate<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>If you\u2019re still unsure about the number, check the official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/insolvency-service\">Insolvency Service website<\/a> to see if it is one of our numbers<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>You can also check numbers using a standard search engine as if it is a legitimate number you will be taken to an official website<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>If you think you\u2019re a victim of a scam \u2013 report it to our friends at <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.actionfraud.police.uk\/report_fraud\">Action Fraud<\/a> (0300 123 2040) or to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/make-a-complaint-to-the-insolvency-service\">Insolvency Service<\/a> directly<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the public are being warned not to fall for a telephony scam which asks you to make unnecessary and premium-rate calls to the Insolvency Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}