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RichardCoulter 02-11-2025 17:50

Virgin employee sold customer details onto a scammer.
 
Absolutely shocking. First they left customer details on the Internet unencrypted and now this. We are all going to have to be extra vigilant.

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/...d-10613065.amp

Paul 02-11-2025 18:11

Re: Virgin employee sold customer details onto a scammer.
 
Reading that it appears to have been 7 or 8 years ago, so I think you're probably ok now.

RichardCoulter 02-11-2025 22:19

Re: Virgin employee sold customer details onto a scammer.
 
The fact his punishment was only a £400 fine is equally shocking.

jem 04-11-2025 23:26

Re: Virgin employee sold customer details onto a scammer.
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36205771)
Reading that it appears to have been 7 or 8 years ago, so I think you're probably ok now.

You know Paul, I’m not too sure.

If you take a look at the official VM community forum, you will see a quite a few very similar reports from VM customers saying that they have been ‘signed up’ for Netflix without their knowledge, and/or their existing Netflix accounts through VM have been hijacked, often changed to Spanish and they are locked out.

Absolutely no reasonable explanation for this has been given by any of the VM mods on the forum, any suggestion that possibly it is corrupt call centre workers accepting a few backhanders to ‘add’ extra services to unsuspecting customers and then hand over the details to others, tends to be met with a stoney silence and/or rapid removal of the post.

Now, of course, it could just be down to complete incompetence but does smell a bit fishy.

---------- Post added at 22:26 ---------- Previous post was at 20:58 ----------

Oh and oddly enough, just now.

https://community.virginmedia.com/di...ccount/5680321

Paul 04-11-2025 23:34

Re: Virgin employee sold customer details onto a scammer.
 
Not entirely sure what your point is.
The events referred too were 7+ years ago, yes, I'm quite sure of that.
It was also for a crypto scam, not for them to login to virgin users accounts.

Off course people can still have their virgin accounts hacked.
There is no evidence its linked to him, or any other employees.


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