Scum Scammers

Anyone watched that scam programme on TV, some hacker hacks into the potential victim of a scams phone while they are on call to the scammer and tries to warn them and cut the call.
 
GIBURROWS said:
I don't get how people fall for a scam by someone with Indian accent, not great English and an overly English name.
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Because loads of companies outsource to Indian call centres to save money. They only have to pay them a fraction of what is paid in the UK.
 
Coincidentally had my first yesterday for a while, not very strong accent but said I was overcharged for my washer repair on my insurance, never had this, I said it's obviously a scan do you think I'm going to fall for it and he hung up on me :D
 
I have a scammer thats been on the hook for 3 years. I am waiting for my inheritance to pay him 20k but my 99-year-old auntie lives on :D
 
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 :)
 
SexyGreyFox said:
however I'm pretty sure she put the phone down on genuine ones like EON :)
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Not unlikely by any means. "Can we have your security info?", "Nope".

Virgin have rang me in the past offering a better phone/deal and if i could "run through a few security questions". Yeah but no. On my account it still says i have a Galaxy Ace 2 :D
 
A few weeks ago I had a scammer call my mobile and he wanted to give me a better deal on my mobile contract. I realised it was a scam straight away, but decided to go along with it Steve Penk style.

Whilst he was telling me about the newest iPhone that hasn't yet been released to the public however Apple were looking at some loyal customers to test the iPhone 15. I did a quick search on YouTube for some flatulence sound effects which were played in the background, repeatedly for around 5 minutes, I added a few straining sounds in for authenticity. The scammer paused a few times, I'm not sure if he had realised that I was scamming him, but he kept going asking for my details.

When he asked for my name I whispered and said that I couldn't tell him that, he could be the police setting me up, but he could call me Dave. I could hear him typing in the background, so I guessed he was still fooled, when he asked for my address I gave a random address, explaining that I would only be there for a short while as I was squatting and the landlord would probably be around in a week or two to kick me out. Bank details, now this is where he realised that I had scammed him and he hung up, I said that I didn't want to give my bank details out over the phone, however I have this stolen credit card that I got when I stole this phone, I could give him the details of that if he wanted.....long pause.....click, and he's gone.
 
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.

He directed me to the play store to install "Anydesk" which I obviously didn't do, but played along. Unfortunately my internet at the time was very slow ;). For some reason it kept failing, then it finally succeeded, although it took about 20 minutes to download, during which time I needed a very noisy poo (complete with noises) and had to stop my cat from eating one of my chickens.

After it had "completed", I was passed to a "supervisor" who tried to talk me through the connection process giving them my "cancellation authorisation code". Unfortunately after giving them an obviously fake connection code (77777777777 That's numberwang! 777) I got cut off, but not before wasting 30 minutes of their time!

Any suggestions on how to keep them going for longer? I've never used the Anydesk software before, so after giving them the code they asked "what can you see on screen" and I just had to guess, which I think is what gave it away.

Tempted to set up an android emulator or an old phone for next time, and see what they try to get up to - am I correct in assuming that if it's a completely fresh install on a separate subnet connected to my guest wifi that they won't be able to get access to anything else?
 
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