Indian Tech support call back!

I would have just said "Thank you come again" and then throw the phone into the sea. Bish can't call back then.
 
I had a call back from an Indian call centre when I told them what I thought, they responded with abuse.
 
edscdk said:
the best advice is to say "i know this is a scam" and hang up..

this is big business, if you make it clear to the operator you know its a scam they **may*** cross your name off the list...

if you are rude or go along with it for a bit they will mark you as a prospect so you will keep getting calls...
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I did this on the one occasion that I had one of these scam calls and answered it.

He phoned me back and demanded to know how I knew it was a scam!

That was genuinely funny - the scammer asking the target for tips on how to avoid being detected. So I laughed at him and hung up again.
 
LordSplodge said:
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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Later variants of Flashback were able to install without requiring the user to do anything. http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-5...ware-what-it-is-and-how-to-get-rid-of-it-faq/
 
radderfire said:
Don't know whether it would help with this, but you can add yourself to the Telephone Preference Service to avoid calls.

Rgds
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You can try, but it doesn't work very well in general and not at all for this.

The TPS only covers live person to person open sales calls from the UK and from companies that obey the rules.

So there are several ways to evade it:

1) Use robodiallers rather than live callers.

2) Use the "survey" workaround. Claim it's a survey. Start by asking questions relevant to the product you're selling, just as you would do for an honest sales call, and just call those questions a survey. For a bit of refinement to the evasion, use the first salesperson (the one doing the fake survey) as a feeder to a second salesperson (who is openly selling).

3) Call from outside the UK.

4) Ignore the rules.

Obviously a scammer trying to steal money from you isn't going to care that you're on the TPS, especially if they're never even heard of it.

I now use a BT 6500 phone with do not disturb on permanently. It works very well - my phone only rings for the numbers I've put on the phone's whitelist. Everyone else goes silently to answerphone.
 
One of them phoned me and I told him the only time I wanted an Indian on the phone was when I was ordering a Jalfrazi. I then politely told him to go away.

10 minutes later his 'boss' called me and started shouting at me saying I had upset his staff. Told him where to go as well.....
 
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