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Hello, Cerasus!
Thank you kindly for the clip.
I do not use Amazon Prime but I have blocked the number anyway.
I feel sorry for those unwitting folk who have fallen for this scam.

I have never used Amazon but still I receive these sickening scams.

There is an excellent site where I always check out unknown numbers (which usually turn out to be fake and not from the area shown on the phone screen) https://who-called.co.uk/

The Amazon scam I received had a number starting with 0141 but no doubt came from some distant foreign country.

Hello, Cerasus!
I downloaded the website you posted earlier today!
0141 is Glasgow.
I am sure I read recently that the scammers can use lots of different numbers.
Be great if they could be stopped!

It would be a miracle if they could be stopped, Rusty .
When we block the fake number, it does not stop the real number of the scammer, so they still continue and use a different fake number.
I am heading outnow as the sun is shining and welcoming.

Hello, Cerasus!
Yes, that is what I read.
They use fake numbers.
You would think, though, that in this day and age, some clever person could come up with a way of stopping these pests.
Enjoy the sun!

Hi, Rusty!
It sounds as though your son and daughter- in law have had a very enjoyable break!
Good for them!
I am very glad that my contretemps with Amazon over "Prime" occurred well before hearing of your telephone experience, and reading Cerasus' clip!
Otherwise I should indeed have been worried!
As it was, my phone call to Amazon Customer Services ( a number I already had "on tap") sorted it all out satisfactorily.
Ah yes, of course I know the Glasgow area code, Rusty!
It is 0141.
All my Kirkintilloch relatives have that prefacing their individual phone numbers!
I read with interest the list of favourite Scottish words.
Good to see "dreich"" is a firm favourite, and I already knew "scunnered" as you have used that a few times.
"Beastie" is of course familiar, as is "braw".
" It's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht...."
My great aunt used to say to my cousin " Is the cat deid?" when he was outgrowing his trousers!
I have made a note of the others......
My Scottish vocabulary is increasing!

Hello, Elle!
Yes, they had a good time on Skye.
Weather was wet when they left.
I was surprised to see "outwith" on the list?
I thought that was in use everywhere?
I know "is the cat deid?"!
When the trousers are at half-mast!
I find these scam calls pretty indistinct.
One lad hung up on me when in response to his question, I told him I did not have a computer or a mobile 'phone.
With a bit of luck he has maybe scored me off his list!

Hi, Rusty!
I don't know "outwith" though, Rusty?
I had never heard it / seen it, before reading it on your list.
Ah, you are like me, denying the existence of a computer or a mobile phone, when receiving these BT telephone scams!
I find a lot of the "scam" callers do not initially speak English, though?
They could be saying anything under the sun, as I often have no idea in what language they are conversing!
After a few "pardon"s and "excuse me"s from me, they sometimes revert to English spoken with a strong foreign accent.
I do not know what they hope to achieve by this sort of approach..... as I then always hang up without further involvement.
And today, I seem to be having trouble with my emails.
No crossword received as yet......and I cannot email out, either!
It is one of "those" days!

Good afternoon, Elle!
I am surprised.
I use "outwith" regularly and thought it was in common English parlance?
I find the scammers tricky to understand.
I have not had one with a "British" type accent yet, though.
You appear to be more polite than me in your responses.
With me it's "eh?" or "what?"!
Now, I have just noticed there is a television programme about scam calls tomorrow evening on Channel 5.
I am going to record it, to see what is it like.
Do you get Channel 5?
I finished my puzzle earlier, but online.
I did not get a paper today.