Ingowatch (A Talkback Birthday Thread)

What you on about? I'm saying that if Chicago wants to DM me his mum's bond numbers, I'll check if the win is legit or not, and I'm confirming that neither me nor anyone can do anything with the bond numbers alone.

I also have an inkling that NS&I has to have a bank account in their system for you already, rather than asking you for one to pay some money into. As, I suspect, there's 100s of thousands of people who have the maximum amount of premium bond and therefore bank details are needed to pay the sums out each month. Probably also for tax linkage purposes.

The main question with all this ... How did they contact her? If it was phone it's 99.99% a scam. NS&I don't call you for a sum of £25,000.

I wouldn't ask Jim to check it personally.

Yeah, I missed the point a bit. Obviously my focus is more on the scammers.

I think you might be a bit hasty in ruling Jim out as a scammer.

Perhaps he’s just been playing a really long game all this time, coming across as a loveable buffoon. When in reality, he’ll have Granny Chic’s premium bonds in a flash and be off into the sunset spending Chic’s inheritance quicker than Mrs Chic in a mattress shop

I'm not getting much love from him. Seems to mainly be lycra, hatred, paranoia, ticketing errors and questionable behaviour.

At least there's no kiddie fiddling.