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Todge said:
play along. My Grandad does whenever he gets calls about stuff he doesn't want. They always give up and he has a right good time.
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I bet your granddad has some laughs with winding up any door to door salespeople or certain religious people who bang on peoples doors too! :D

I tell 'em that they've rung the phone number of a holiday home & there's no computers or internet here - they soon hang up. :p
 
I tell door to door salesman that my Mum & Dad aren't in and they just think I'm a sad old 53 year old who still lives with them.
The funniest one was when I answered the door to an old Jehova's Witnees woman while holding one of those computerised real babies and she thought it was real.
 
dmpoole said:
I tell door to door salesman that my Mum & Dad aren't in and they just think I'm a sad old 53 year old who still lives with them.
The funniest one was when I answered the door to an old Jehova's Witnees woman while holding one of those computerised real babies and she thought it was real.
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please tell me you held it by it's head or or shook it around while talking.
 
i get a call like that every couple of days for months now, sometimes they get a bit nasty, would love to know who is doing it.
 
Tefal said:
please tell me you held it by it's head or or shook it around while talking.
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No that would be going too far but while it was out of sight behind the door I would move it's head and it would cry a little bit prompting me to say he was ready for his feed.
I did this about 3 times which meant when it was taken back to work the following day the computer readout said I had shook it's head 3 times.
Well it was more than that by the time I had finished with it.
 
Just had one of those calls. Her name was Tracy and she had a strong South-East Asian accent.
We reached the bit when I was supposed to press the Windows key when I asked if she could hang on a bit.
Went downstairs, fed the cat and made myself a cup of tea and a bowl of cereal.
I couldn't believe she would still be on the line but curiosity got the best of me and checked.
She was still there!! She asked if things were OK so I said I had to kill the cat...she giggled. I then asked if she would like a cup of tea.

She giggled again so I left her for 5 whole minutes. Checked after 5 minutes and she was still there! I said "here is your tea, be careful how you drink it, don't spill it on your computer".
She giggled again and the line went dead.

Such fun.
 
I take it by this thread and recent e-mail that a spate of scammers has surfaced recently?

Dear Windows Live User,

Microsoft Ireland and the National Consumer Agency would like to warn you of a scam that is currently active in the Irish marketplace. Irish consumers are receiving telephone calls from persons claiming to be from Microsoft, or working on behalf of Microsoft, to tell them they have a virus on their computer.

Details of the Scam:

• Consumers are cold called from someone claiming to be from Microsoft and told there is a problem with their computer and offered help to solve the computer problems.

• Once the caller has gained the consumer's trust, they ask consumers to log onto a website to download a file to help solve the problem.

• They then ask for credit card details for a package which will fix the virus. They also potentially attempt to steal from the person by accessing personal information on their computer. In addition to gaining access to your personal details, they can also infect your computer with damaging viruses and spyware.

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Good stories so far, although preferably we should eventually unearth one that ends with "... and so the scammer's screams still echo in my dreams to this day."
 
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