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The guy claimed to be from Barclays, I quickly googled the number and sure enough it looks like Barclays website, the address is private banking.Barclays.co.uk he originally called my wife which raised my suspicions from the off as her number isn’t registered against the card, I took the phone and he started asking for a code, turns out he was trying to book through booking.com and wanted the authorisation code. Should also add he tried my wife’s number 5/6 times, 3 in a row calling hanging up and calling again.

Call started with a message that the call was being recorded. Then a guy states he is from the Argos fraud team stating that someone had tried to make a transaction to Argos from Aberdeen, he knew my name and postcode and stated that this was why it had been flagged up. I clarified where he was calling from and again said Argos, I asked where he had got my number from and he stated his system, I asked why it would be Argos ringing me and not my bank if someone was trying to make a unauthorised payment, he stated it was part of their training, I asked why if he was training were my details flagged up and stated that this call was a scam, he tried to reassure me it wasn’t to which I told him to get a real job and stop trying to scam people for money.