recent scam calls

Something Else · 7 Jun 2012 at 17:49

so yesterday i had my first computer scam call from a nice indian chap

had the guy on the phone for about 30mins

he asked me to turn my computer on but this being a scam i thought id just ask what he wanted me to do first before i did anything, he wouldnt tell me :rolleyes:

anyway i wasted his time for a while by asking him where the on switch is on my computer, why is he called kevin and how did he get my number. he couldn't answer any.

today i had a nice indian chap called nick and this call ended rather badly and quickly for nick.

"hello my name is nick and iam calling from OS systems or somthing?"

me- "oh will you just **** off i had one of your ****hole colleagues on the phone yesterday, everytime you ring me im going to abuse you so delete me from your database, now ****of"

nick hangs up.

Fenris · 7 Jun 2012 at 17:54

Jamsames said:
so yesterday i had my first computer scam call from a nice indian chap

had the guy on the phone for about 30mins

So not only did you waste 30 minutes of your own time, you decided to waste other peoples with this sorry excuse for a thread?

Just put the phone down in future instead of trying to be smart and/or swearing at them like a chav.

Also inb4 "Your wasting your time posting this", why would I be on this forum if not to waste time?

The Halk · 7 Jun 2012 at 17:54

There's been lost of these threads/posts.

I'm yet to be interested by any

kilohawk · 7 Jun 2012 at 17:55

I'm going to class PPI callers as scammers now...becuase they are.

We were getting daily calls from PPI people when I got home for summer, but a week of me being hostile, and not falling into their scripted traps has shut them up

Something Else · 7 Jun 2012 at 17:55

i had a few minutes spare before going to work so yea thought id waste their time. maybe if i swear at them like a unintelligent chav they may just not bother to call again therefore saving time?

cainer · 7 Jun 2012 at 17:55

The Halk said:
There's been lost of these threads/posts.

i wonder what % of them actually happened

bum · 7 Jun 2012 at 17:56

But seriously, these scams should burn and die a miserable death.

Reaper 392 · 7 Jun 2012 at 17:57

The Halk said:
There's been lost of these threads/posts.

I'm yet to be interested by any

i'll only be interested if a decent prank goes down on one of these scam callers, like the you've called a murder scene prank

Gypo · 7 Jun 2012 at 17:58

I had one of these, infact my first last week!

Indian guy saying he was from a tax rebate company in London and wanted to refund me £500-700 into my account. Twice he got my bank wrong and in the end admitted it was a scam, became quite abusive saying he wanted to **** my mother and *** in my mouth LOL

Fenris · 7 Jun 2012 at 17:58

cainer said:
i wonder what % of them actually happened

I tend to take "had them of the phone for [insert time here]" comments with a pinch of salt.

Something Else · 7 Jun 2012 at 17:58

ill try to record the next one, ill try to be smart but i cant guarantee anything.

The Halk · 7 Jun 2012 at 17:58

Jamsames said:
i had a few minutes spare before going to work so yea thought id waste their time. maybe if i swear at them like a unintelligent chav they may just not bother to call again therefore saving time?

Add yourself to the TPS, although that won't create much of an effect for the foreign ones. Never reply to the spam text messages...

And when they do phone, just say no, and hang up - if you let yourself get bothered about it then you've lost.

Fenris · 7 Jun 2012 at 17:59

Jamsames said:
ill try to be smart but i cant guarantee anything.

I just wanted to quote this for posterity.

Something Else · 7 Jun 2012 at 18:01

Fenris said:
I just wanted to quote this for posterity.

haha good plan

i could do stupid on the phone, ive had plenty of practise during my time

Shayper · 7 Jun 2012 at 18:07

cainer said:
i wonder what % of them actually happened

A couple of days ago, I would have rolleyed this post.

But then Jaffa-Farfromthetruth happened

Sho · 7 Jun 2012 at 18:16

Just put the phone down.

Something Else · 7 Jun 2012 at 18:31

Sho said:
Just put the phone down.

thats just no fun though, i dont get mad with these people they are just doing their jobs so my abuse to them is not nescesary but i do like to fool them about

im trying to come up with ideas to go along with for the next call them will probably send my way. i think a decent one is that ive designed my own operating system and nothing they tell me to do is compatable with it.

sad and pathetic yes but its just for sh**s and giggles.

Reaper 392 · 7 Jun 2012 at 18:35

Shayper said:
A couple of days ago, I would have rolleyed this post.

But then Jaffa-Farfromthetruth happened

off topic, but i vote that jaffa should be renamed to that

estebanrey · 7 Jun 2012 at 19:13

Liquidfox · 8 Jun 2012 at 16:17

We've had a customer call us up saying they've spoken to Microsoft and handed over their card details, not just once, but three times! They gave a phone number to call (which picks up), an email address and a reference code, plus a personal account manager (Jim Taylor)

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0208 144 9472

From what we can tell, they've installed MalwareBytes, CCleaner and a 10,000 seat (VLK - Valid until 2018) version of AVG. It seems that they might not be as nefarious as we first thought, that it's just some poor indian bloke who thinks they're doing a good job and taking payment at the end. They even emailed this customer to make sure the work was OK before they took any payments! Not sure how much they took though!

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