Did you really have to state that it's a scam?
Surely most people realise that unsolicited requests to be a third party for any promise of an amount of money is a scam?
They say 'if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is'...unless anyone has a different story to tell?
We might know but we all may have vulnerable relatives that we need to make aware of this and other scams so if it helps then all well and good. My 75yo mother had a call yesterday in the North East that went somethng like this:
Good evening madam - are you Mrs X?
Yes why?
I regret to inform you that you have been charged with fraud and you have to appear in court in London on a date to be agreed. Your summons is in the post. But you are needing not to be worried. My solicitors will represent you and you are not being needing to appear. We will have this case dismissed but we need to be retained officially by you and to do this we just need a payment of £25 that you can pay by credit or debit card. Would you like to do this to be stopping you from being worried?
Now some vulnerable people might have been worried and immediately reached for their credit debit card.
My mother replied and unfortunately the language she told me she used I had never heard her use before. Certainly not PC. Questioned his parentage, his country of origin, his right to be in the UK, told him her son worked for BT ( I dont) and she had calls like this before (she hasnt) and has a trace on all unknown numbers (she hasnt) threatened him with threats of violence from me (thanks mam) and told him that if he knew what was good for him he would return to his land of origin. She rang me after putting the phone down and said 'did I do the right thing? I was really nasty to him, I even used the F word I was so mad and worried, you dont think he is a real solicitor do you and will complain to the police? Er no mam. I did though ring the police who confirmed that this was a known scam to get bank card details. They then came round and took a statement.
So any scam details are worth sharing to pass on.