Scum Scammers

What annoys me is that our authorities know exactly where the bulk of the scam calls originate and are prepared to do the sum total of sweet FA about it.

It would be VERY easy for our government to tell the government of the origin "Listen up, deal with these scum immediately or all those lovely millions of UK cash that we give as "aid" stops."
 
Minusorange said:
Makes you wonder just how thick the people are who actually fall for their mastermind scams
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I mean a genuine 89yr old would likely struggle with this. My mum in her mid 70's really struggles with Tech and has no ability. She lucky that she doesn't take any rubbish though and just says if there an issue my Husband will sort it but if she was alone and that she would probably fall for this sort of thing.

She isn't exactly thick either, she was a book keeper most her life and financially savvy. Just not tech.
 
watched a few of kitboga's videos on YouTube. If I get one of these calls and I have time I'll play along with them occasionally to stop them calling someone else.
 
Brilliant effort, love stringing along scammers on the phone. My best effort managed to get bumped to a manager about my hot air balloon crash (they claimed I was in a car crash).
 
I had one yesterday who called from FoneHouse and I pretended to be confused by asking if they built houses for phones, what do they mean, really confused about their business etc.

They hung up after a few minutes.
 
I don't know how people have the patience to string these scummers along.

Had one this morning pertaining to be from Virgin, withheld # (Virgin don't do that normally), saying there was a problem with my BB.

Asked them for their name and Virgin #, they ummed and ahhed as this wasn't on their script, hung up straight away.
 
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.
 
Nomally they ask me what sort of computer I have, PC or apple, I tell them its some kind of fruit, but not apple, raspberry, I think.... Nommally confuses them, then they have me look t the keyboard and when they find out through questioning that it has a windows key on it, they decide its a PC and have me pressing win+r and telling me run should have popped up. I guess they don't have the raspberry PIs wherever they are from!
 
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 :)
 
Resident said:
What annoys me is that our authorities know exactly where the bulk of the scam calls originate and are prepared to do the sum total of sweet FA about it.

It would be VERY easy for our government to tell the government of the origin "Listen up, deal with these scum immediately or all those lovely millions of UK cash that we give as "aid" stops."
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If the aid stops then the back handers stop so that won't happen!
 
I stumbled on a YouTube channel - scammer payback - he seems to have more info on them than they do on him.

He even tricks them to login into their pcs and deletes their files:D
 
SexyGreyFox said:
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 :)
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Downloading your details through the phone line? :D

I had hoped there was going to be a recording. Always an easy laugh to be had, i'm just never around my phone when they ring and they never leave me a voice msg
 
A colleague of mine fell for a Virgin Media scam hook, line and sinker.

He got a call from 'Virgin Media' to ask if his internet connection and computer were running slowly. They were! About 30 minutes later he'd fired up AnyDesk on his laptop and a similar sort of program on his mobile phone. 'Virgin' ran some tests and confirmed that yes, there was an issue with his internet connection which they were very sorry about. By way of compensation they wanted to give him a credit but for some reason they needed him to log into his bank account to confirm that the transfer worked.

End result is that he had about £10k stolen from his bank account.
 
I find it really difficult to understand how seeming reasonably intelligent people can hand over thousands of pounds in these dating scams. Just listening to one person who handed over a six figure sum, selling her house in the process.
With men it seems even sadder because it is invariably young beautiful girls that are scamming them and I have to say with the greatest respect young girls don't fancy old men unless it is American films and TV so how they are taken in is baffling.
 
Curlyriff said:
I mean a genuine 89yr old would likely struggle with this. My mum in her mid 70's really struggles with Tech and has no ability. She lucky that she doesn't take any rubbish though and just says if there an issue my Husband will sort it but if she was alone and that she would probably fall for this sort of thing.

She isn't exactly thick either, she was a book keeper most her life and financially savvy. Just not tech.
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My ~70 year old mum nearly got done. Thankfully she sort of came to her senses just before the point of no return. She got fooled and downloaded what they asked her to, but then suddenly twigged it could be a scam so turned her laptop off and immediately called her bank and called me.

I had no idea what she downloaded so told her not to turn her laptop back on till I had come over and reinstalled windows.

She is terrible with computers, and I guess this sort of scam just wasn't a thing through most of her life so I can see why older people can get caught out.
 
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