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Just before I left for a few days' holiday last week, I answered a phone call from what sounded like a young woman with an American accent who said she was calling about (I think she said) my United Utilities shares. The sound wasn't very clear so I said "the water company?" There was a silence and she rang off. I'm always wary of scam calls and that is probably what this one was and in view of the fund-raising exercise reported on here for Severn Trent, which I gather didn't include ordinary shareholders, I wonder whether scammers were trying to cash in by offering fake shares. It surely couldn't have been worthwhile as a genuine exercise by the company, could it? Did anyone else receive a similar call? I suppose it might have been the registrars wanting to know whether I wanted to sell or increase my fairly small holding but the caller didn't know what sort of company UU was.Moved from Company Share news (LSE Main Market) to here because it is not company news and completely disregards the guidelines of that board. Please read those guidelines before posting there again. Thanks. - Chris
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