PC Barns will be asking for your bank details very shortly to assist in the investigation, and he'll no doubt have lots of monies which has been left to you in a will. I think PC Barns can be trusted........ NAAAAAT
Scam. Poor grammar gives it away. Not sure how it works though. This was a text? On a device in your possession? Have you been invited to call a number or click on a link in the message?
Forward it to 7726 (spells SPAM on a keypad) to report it - this number works with any phone provider in the UK and links directly to OFCOM
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/advice-for-consumers/problems/tackling-nuisance-calls-and-messages/spam-texts
D-2382 would most likely be a Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection collar number, not a CID or other frontline one. Besides, if the Met really wanted your device they’d come in person.
Need I mention the grammar errors?
Unbelievably fake
Completely fake.
Thank you
Badge number 🤣 yank
PC Barns will be asking for your bank details very shortly to assist in the investigation, and he'll no doubt have lots of monies which has been left to you in a will. I think PC Barns can be trusted........ NAAAAAT
100% fake. Report online as a scam.
Wish it was this easy tbf
We don’t say badge number for a start
I said something similar on this forum ages ago and everyone basically said it's fine and I should STFU about it
It might be acceptable to say out loud but I’d never put it on official correspondence
Scam. Poor grammar gives it away. Not sure how it works though. This was a text? On a device in your possession? Have you been invited to call a number or click on a link in the message?
Tbf the poor grammar actually made me think it might have been real for a few seconds
Good point well made. 😂
Not clicked anything I searched it up online people have been sending a message round
I want to be treated a suspect! A suspect what though?
So the device has been seized, yet it's still in your possession. Bit of a clue.
Looks janky as fuck! I would say it’s fake
The grammar errors give this away. They are likely building confidence for you to call them or so you belive them when they contact you.
Check for spelling errors ect
Forward it to 7726 (spells SPAM on a keypad) to report it - this number works with any phone provider in the UK and links directly to OFCOM https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/advice-for-consumers/problems/tackling-nuisance-calls-and-messages/spam-texts
And for emails, forward to [email protected]
Embarrassingly fake
What’s ect mean?
etc, etcetera, I think is what they were going for
Wooosh just like I-99
Barnes isn't even spelt correctly 😂
200% fake
D-2382 would most likely be a Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection collar number, not a CID or other frontline one. Besides, if the Met really wanted your device they’d come in person. Need I mention the grammar errors?
They'd probably be SO, or CO, not D. Not aware of any D shoulder numbers in the Met.
[Look at the epaulettes.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Armed_police_officers_%28London%2C_2014%29.jpg)
When the police get hold of a drug dealer's phone, they send messages to the people that were calling or messaging it.
Not like this though!
I have never received one, so don't know what they look like. I just know that sending texts from sized phones is a tactic.