{"id":75519,"date":"2025-05-05T04:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T04:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/75519\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T04:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T04:07:10","slug":"martin-lewis-issues-urgent-message-to-three-mobile-customers-personal-finance-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/75519\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Lewis issues urgent message to Three Mobile customers | Personal Finance | Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Money expert Martin Lewis has issued an urgent message to Three customers as well as the two networks which piggyback off Three\u2019s<\/a> signal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This week, Martin<\/a> took to Twitter to urge customers of 21 banks to use a three-digit code to avoid getting scammed.<\/p>\n

He revealed in a video he posted to his account that customers of most major banks in the UK can dial a three digit number to check whether the call they\u2019re having with their bank is actually legitimate and not a scam.<\/p>\n

The Money Saving Expert<\/a> founder said: \u201cIf you get a call from your bank, you\u2019re not sure it\u2019s really them, they\u2019re asking for personal details, you\u2019re a little bit worried. Just say \u2018I\u2019m going to call you back via your switchboard, (hang up) and dial 159.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is done as an anti-scam and anti-fraud initiative so that you can always get through to a legitimate number without having to look it up. Just remember 159.\u201d<\/p>\n

The three digit scambuster number currently works with 21 banks and building societies, including Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Nationwide<\/a>, Natwest<\/a>, Revolut and Santander<\/a> as well as Bank of Scotland.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It works because 159 can\u2019t be spoofed or impersonated so scammers can\u2019t use it to trick you into thinking you\u2019re talking to your bank.<\/p>\n

But, Martin has now revealed that Three customers as well as those on networks which use Three\u2019s<\/a> signal have reported problems with the number.<\/p>\n

He returned to Twitter with an urgent update for Three customers, as well as those on Smarty and iD Mobile, which both use Three\u2019s signal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cWe’ve worked out why some saying it doesn’t work\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cThree has confirmed there is an issue impacting 159 calls made from some Android devices via its network (including Smarty and iD Mobile). It says it is working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Money expert Martin Lewis has issued an urgent message to Three customers as well as the two networks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37248,37247,51,1059,3125,9968,37246,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-75519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-159-number-issue","9":"tag-anti-scam-initiative","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-martin-lewis","12":"tag-money-saving-expert","13":"tag-scams","14":"tag-three-mobile","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114453260269245981","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}