Our member of staff was called today from 02032 869 261 (actually displays as 00-02032869261 on their mobile) again it was an Indian call centre, this time the caller gave the name ‘Andrew Smith’.
They were asking for an activation code in order to pay out the £8,000 loan, when he was asked how we go about getting this activation code he used our staff members’ postcode to find a local mini-market. We were told to go here and load £266 onto a 3V Visa prepaid card (visit www.3vprepaid.com for more information) which we would receive a receipt for, with a reference number, as well as an account number for the card and this is what they call an activation code.
Obviously you are going to give them the details of the card and the reference on the receipt and somehow they will take that money and never send you the £8,000 loan.
As always, if you have received a call or have any more information about this number or the scam in general then please comment below.
Our member of staff who placed the initial phone call to the scammers has now been contacted from a new number.
If you receive an email from a free to sign up account like hotmail, yahoo or gmail saying you have been approved for a loan and includes all the terms and payment details, does it look like this below. If it does then please ignore it as it’s a scam and you could lose out.
Here a list of known email addresses that are involved in this scam, if you receive a 
Once we found out about this number one of our staff decided to call them and pretend to want a loan. Unfortunately we thought they may have got on to us and decided not to phone us back, but after waiting over the Easter Weekend they contacted our staff member at 14:40 on Tuesday, 10th April.
That’s right – if you are being called from this number, 0161 408 2498, then it’s a scam and are they are only after you parting with your money.