BT FRAUD ALERT

 ***BT fraud alert****
The West Armagh Consortium are currently investigating a Scam in which it was a victim and had a substantial amount of money fraudulently taken from its bank account, the money taken was earmarked for future programmes that local communities would benefit from.
The scam involved somebody phoning the Consortium offices claiming to be from BT. They informed the organisation that BT were carrying out maintenance on its lines and requested a member of the organisation to carry out a number of instructions that allowed remote access to the office computer and subsequently recorded the organisations bank details.
The Consortium are currently assisting the Police, and the bank involved with their enquiries.
The West Armagh Consortium would ask local people, organisations and businesses to be vigilant when receiving calls similar to this and do not complete any transactions via phone or computer/tablet. If people are phoning you and looking for you to carry out instructions relating to your phone, computer/tablet, bank or ask for any personal details.....hang up. Think fraud, these details may allow scammers to gain remote access to your computer and bank

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