Windows software team scam

Narj

Narj

Narj

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Well I managed to keep them on the phone for an hour and 38 minutes before they started swearing and gave up! :D Spoke to 5 different people and pretended to try 3 different computers. :D

What's your record?

EDIT: they've called back
 
I have never had this, my brother had a supermarket survey once. He went on for about 1 hour chatting the women up and telling her that he went to aldi every 15 minutes.
 
Oh dear, not this again, I actually started a thread about this, it's pathetic that they keep trying
 
LOL just made them try 3 different fake cards as well! I'd record it if I didn't hate hearing myself in recordings. :D

I kept telling them that my computer was bluescreening on launching the remote access app, then told them I'd try another computer - kept mentioning "Ubuntu" but they didn't have a clue. :D
 
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PianoBasher said:
What's your record?
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About 42 minutes while I'm pretending to run all around the house turning all 10 computers on (no I haven't) and then struggling to find START > RUN before I told them I was on an ASUS Transformer.

My daughter rang me at work on thursday saying Microsoft were on the landline and if it was for real.
I told her to string them along but she'd gone back to Uni when I got home so I didn't find out if she beat my record.

My 76 year old Mother had one about 3 weeks ago and the only computer she ever had in the house was a ZX80 when I lived there.
 
Ahaha 1 hour 38 mins is seriously impressive!

I just put the phone to the side once they say who they are.
 
it would be so bad apart from the fact i was struggling to understand what they were saying, bad accent, bad phone line, gave up.....
 
My record is about 5 minutes. I quite like 'doing voices', so when ever i get an 'international' phone call on my land line, I like to answer it in character. In my retinue i have: My finest Indian accent where i spend the rest of the call commenting i can't understand their thick Indian accent. My eccentric Scottish accent (Mostly derived from Billy Connolly), and my Monty Python womens voice whereby I spend the rest of the phone call being ignorant and decrying 'my husband normally deals with these sorts of things'
 
I don't think I'd have the patience to string them along for any length of time. I get rid of cold calls, scam or not, as quick as I can.
 
Just over an hour is my record, then I was passed on to another guy who read out my post code and told me some 'big guys' were coming to my house to kill me :p
 
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