I do this stuff so you don't have to

 I pride myself in knowing what a phishing email looks like and when a scammer rings my mobile and tries it on. In fact I probably forward more emails to report@phishing.gov.uk than they'd really like and have a large number of contacts on my phone which are blocked or simply named Scam.

Yesterday on the BBC show "Scam Interceptors" Rav and his colleagues trapped a gang based in Lahore who ring customers of O2 Mobile and attempt to get access to their online accounts and, if successful, order expensive phones. They do this by getting the O2 system to send a code to the victim, which they then use to change the account password. 

On April 6 2024 the bastards got me. In fact the modus operandi was so similar that I'm 99%  convinced that it was the same gang. And before you ask - yes I broke my own rules and bloody well took a call from an unknown number and was stupidly taken in.

I realised the same day what had happened and reported it to O2, who gave me a Fraud Case Number and also a Complaint Number. Nevertheless an iPhone was delivered to my house 2 days later, which the fraudsters then tried to acquire - first by asking me to send it to them and then by using the Royal Mail 'postage paid' service to get me to hand it over to the postie. 

I still appear to be paying for this phone, in spite of numerous letters and emails to O2, but that's another story.

So Mr Ahmad Sarfraz, with the important exception of not wanting harm to those dear to you, I wish you every other misfortune under the sun.