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SexyGreyFox

SexyGreyFox

SexyGreyFox

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Yes I know we all get them but this latest lot are complete scum.
Usually when I pretend I'm somebody else they work me out very quickly and put the phone down but this one has now gone on since 8.30am yesterday morning and last call about 30 minutes ago from several different people who keep passing my number around.

So first call "We are from Virgin Technical Department and there is a problem with your Internet".
Immediately I became an 89 year old man confined to bed where 4 Nurses come in during the day, I have two sons who set me up on broadband and I use my phone through that with no sim package and it's on an Orange San Fransisco phone :)
Very quickly they get me onto Playstore to download Team Viewer and after one minute they ask me how much has downloaded - "1%" :)
To cut a long story short they said they will ring back in 30 minutes - "Is it installed?" - "No it's on 2% now" :)
OK I will ring you in 2 hours - "Is it installed?" - "No it's on 4% now" :)
Anyway yesterday I get a total of 10 phone calls and get two of them singing Happy Birthday to me.
This morning a new woman asks - "Is it installed?" - "No it's on 37% now" :)
"Can you reboot your router?" - "No, I'm an 89 year old man confined to bed and it is very high up and it was my birthday yesterday" :)
"Can you get one of your nurses to reboot it?" - "I'll ask".
"Can you stop download and install Team Viewer again from Play Store and I will ring at 1pm?"- "OK".
1am comes (different person) - "Is it installed?" - "No it's on 2% now" :)
"You said it was on 37% yesterday" - "It was but a woman this morning told me to cancel and start again".

Another four calls until 30 mins ago where my imaginary download is at 11% on my Orange San Francisco and they are ringing me in the morning :)

I honestly can't believe how gullible they are but complete scum at wanting to get on an 89 year olds phone.
 
So disappointed, I set up a recorder to record my next call but they haven't bothered today.

@Kelt
While I'm working my house phone is on my shoulder so it takes nothing to say the odd sentence.
 
Bloody wife, I said to her today if the landline rings let me have it because I'm going to record it, she then told me she answered it yesterday and told them I'd been joking with them :(
She thinks they are getting information about us while they're on the landline :)
 
Got to admit my 85 year old Mum who died at the end of 2019 was quite savvy with phone calls.
I'd explained to her the type of calls she may get years ago and at least once a month she would put the phone down on them.
She wrote down who had rung her like Microsoft, Virgin etc however I'm pretty sure she put the phone down on genuine ones like EON :)
 
Haggisman said:
Just had one of these, from "Amazon Prime" saying my prime subscription has been automatically renewed (great, wouldn't want to miss out on my free delivery and video!), but nonetheless pushed "1" to speak to someone.
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Just had this exact same phone call but being at work I couldn't play along.
 
Guest2 said:
Should say you have Dementia too, then you can come out with anything and/or say you dont know what they're talking about. Or put a 'nurse' on the phone to say you have Dementia
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Didn't work for me, I basically said it by repeating every 30 seconds "Did I tell you I'm 89 today?", they just kept asking "How many percent now?" with the installation of Team Viewer.
 
Guest2 said:
They clearly do not know old people / Dementia patients. Asking about Team Viewer install percentage :D My nan has alzheimer's bless her, she doesnt even know what the TV remote is for now a days
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When my Dad was in hospital 6 weeks ago before he died he started to forget things, up until then he was fine, but he kept hiding the remote control under his pyjamas because he said the Nurses were trying to steal it. He eventually put it somewhere so nobody found it :)
 
Just strung another VM scam call for 10 minutes and recorded it, I got a bit bored so told them I work for VM and the Asian lady called me a MFB :)
(Samuel L Jackson and a female dog)
 
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