Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Scamming - Fraud
Scammers are making robocalls or automated calls from 01189870500 purporting to be from the Reading County Court and Family Court. The scammers, spoofing the court's telephone number, claim their potential victims are being scammed in order to frighten and trick them into disclosing their personal and financial information.
If you have received a call, which appears to be from Reading County Court and Family Court, claiming you are being scammed or your information has been compromised, just hang up and report the call to your telephone service provider. Do not follow the instructions given to you by the caller.
If you have received a "Reading County Court and Family Court" scam call, please share our experince by leaving a comment below. Remember to include the telephone number the call came from.
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I've received spam calls from supposedly Reading and Truro courts. I'm relatively savvy so have blocked the numbers but am concerned for those not so aware.
Received a call today from this number stating reading county court. I’ve just called back and said the office is now closed. It seem really real. I was really worried about it as I didn’t know why a court would be trying to contact me. I then found this thread. Very worrying
I have received 2 calls from 01189870500 Reading County Court and Family Court yesterday (Sunday 3/10/22 and today) very convincing but didn't respond, glad I didn't now.
I have had several of these calls over a period of months, but never know whether to answer or not, as it does come up with the READING COUNTY COURT & FAMILY COURT. Obviously am not sure if legitimate or not?
01189870500 They called me Fri, Sat and again this morning. Luckily I have enabled scam blocking on my phone, so all I get is a notification that they called, looked up the number today , couldn't believe how professional this scam is. Only the fact I know courts don't open on weekends , I looked into it further
Starting with Friday 01/10/2021 I have received three calls so from from the the phone number 01189870500.Caller is an automated machine which which starts playing about 3 seconds after answering the call. Tells me I am about to be prosecuted and there will be severe penalties if I do not comply with court officers requests. The only option available is "Press 1 to speak to a case officer", at which point I hung up and ignore this number now.
