I'll just put the phone down.
Indian Tech support call back!
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I'll just put the phone down.
I don't really get what you are trying to argue here?
It's an Indian Scam Call Centre calling me from India, I don't know how else I would describe it.
I'm not racist, I don't have anything against Indian people.
People like you make racism a bigger issue than it needs or should be.
Same here
Well I do have one, but it has no phone attached to it. Just an ADSL connection.
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What point are you trying to make here? Why not just call the OP a racist and be done with it instead of skirting round the issue with hypothtical questions not based on reality.
And 'reality' is what you're missing here, this 'Windows Support Call' scam originated in India and I've never heard of anyone receiving this perticular call from anywhere else.
Now if you don't like that fact because it doesn't confirm to your Guardianista world view that all scams are committed exactly equally between different races of people with this one being an exlusively Indian issue then I'd suggest you fly over the India to have a word or lobby their government to do more to stop their country being such a hot bed for it. Tightening up the Indian definition of a 'scam' in their lawbooks would be a start.
You can spot a leftyloon a mile off, when someone from an ethnic minority does something wrong, they get more incensed that the victim mentioned their race/religion/nationality when telling the story than the attempted fraud itself.
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dup
Please say more things.
not that much of a waste - tis 10 minutes less time for the scammer to rip off old people or others who are not very technical.
tis part of the description of what happened... the accent is quite distinctive - deliberately omitting this information, given that plenty of people know where these scams come from, is a bit pointless and quite patronising, its almost racist in itself as it assumes the nationality being described (in this case Indian) are overly sensitive and should be treated with kid gloves...
www.blackpeopleloveus.com
illustrates this as a general point - trying too hard to come across as not-racist ends up becoming patronising and almost racist in itself....
Never had one of these calls, but I get quite a few of the good old "toner phoners" - I can't believe they're still pulling that one. In case you don't know...
You answer the phone and they say "Hi, this is so-and-so from customer service - can you just give me the model number of your copier again?" They act like they've already spoken to somebody and they're in a rush. They're hoping to catch somebody trusting who just assumes it's legit or works in a big office and simply doesn't care. You give them the model number, they say "so that's a Canon 123XYZ?, yes?". You confirm, they say "great thanks - can I just get your name?", you oblige......then a couple of days later a load of dodgy toner cartridges turn up. They even record the calls so that when somebody phones up asking who authorized the order they give your name and play a badly edited recording of you saying "yes" to them asking for confirmation! They then just make it nearly impossible to return the stuff and then threaten the company with court action for not paying. Because the orders are never that big lots of places just pay to get rid of them
This has been going on for nearly as long as toner/ink cartridges have been around and it seems to be making a comeback.
If I have nothing better to do I play with them for a bit until they get bored or abusive. Usually I just give them an earful and put the phone down.
You answer the phone and they say "Hi, this is so-and-so from customer service - can you just give me the model number of your copier again?" They act like they've already spoken to somebody and they're in a rush. They're hoping to catch somebody trusting who just assumes it's legit or works in a big office and simply doesn't care. You give them the model number, they say "so that's a Canon 123XYZ?, yes?". You confirm, they say "great thanks - can I just get your name?", you oblige......then a couple of days later a load of dodgy toner cartridges turn up. They even record the calls so that when somebody phones up asking who authorized the order they give your name and play a badly edited recording of you saying "yes" to them asking for confirmation! They then just make it nearly impossible to return the stuff and then threaten the company with court action for not paying. Because the orders are never that big lots of places just pay to get rid of them
This has been going on for nearly as long as toner/ink cartridges have been around and it seems to be making a comeback.If I have nothing better to do I play with them for a bit until they get bored or abusive. Usually I just give them an earful and put the phone down.
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Never had one of these calls, but I get quite a few of the good old "toner phoners" - I can't believe they're still pulling that one. In case you don't know...
You answer the phone and they say "Hi, this is so-and-so from customer service - can you just give me the model number of your copier again?" They act like they've already spoken to somebody and they're in a rush. They're hoping to catch somebody trusting who just assumes it's legit or works in a big office and simply doesn't care. You give them the model number, they say "so that's a Canon 123XYZ?, yes?". You confirm, they say "great thanks - can I just get your name?", you oblige......then a couple of days later a load of dodgy toner cartridges turn up. They even record the calls so that when somebody phones up asking who authorized the order they give your name and play a badly edited recording of you saying "yes" to them asking for confirmation! They then just make it nearly impossible to return the stuff and then threaten the company with court action for not paying. Because the orders are never that big lots of places just pay to get rid of them
If I have nothing better to do I play with them for a bit until they get bored or abusive. Usually I just give them an earful and put the phone down.
First I've ever heard of that!
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Same here! That would never go far with me, considering all of our supplies are contracted.
Hi,
I had one of these calls two days ago from a guy purporting to be Jeff from Tech Support. He said that he had been monitoring my broadband connection and discovered it was running slowly.
I asked him what my name was and he rang off.
Now please be gentle with me because I'm getting on a bit. I realised it was likely to be fallacious because I'm with Virgin Media and let's be honest who's going to accuse them of being pro-active??
But what on earth was the guy trying to do? Move me to another broadband provider? Something else? I realise you guys on here know more about such matters than I do, so what was my "new friend" (Oriental Jeff) trying to achieve?
What have these guys done to others in the past?
Be gentle!
I had one of these calls two days ago from a guy purporting to be Jeff from Tech Support. He said that he had been monitoring my broadband connection and discovered it was running slowly.
I asked him what my name was and he rang off.
Now please be gentle with me because I'm getting on a bit. I realised it was likely to be fallacious because I'm with Virgin Media and let's be honest who's going to accuse them of being pro-active??
But what on earth was the guy trying to do? Move me to another broadband provider? Something else? I realise you guys on here know more about such matters than I do, so what was my "new friend" (Oriental Jeff) trying to achieve?
What have these guys done to others in the past?
Be gentle!
I believe that the usual con goes thus;
Someone calls and states that you have a fault with your PC / internet, etc
They state that they are calling from an official source - your internet provider, software manufacturer, hardware manufacturer, etc.
They then say that they can remotely fix the problem for a sum of money.
I believe that they use Remote Desktop to access your PC and make it look like they are fixing something OR they install malicious programs without your knowledge which they then "discover" and say is the source of the problem and that they can remove it for X-amount of cash.
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Erm, that's a Trojan not a virus. You actually need to authorise the installation (it masked itself as a Flash update) whereas a virus installs itself. OS X, just like Linux isn't immune from getting infected with Trojans but the risk is minuscule.
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I've never had a call from "Windows" though my friends have. Guess they actually know I live in an all Mac household (although I do run Windows sometimes though!)
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Just put the phone down. 