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| Thread ID: 128611 | 2013-01-03 00:50:00 | weird phone calls | Tony (4941) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1321227 | 2013-01-03 00:50:00 | Every so often my landline phone rings, but when I answer it there is silence for maybe 10-15secs, followed by a mechanical female-ish voice saying "goodbye" and the phone hangs up. Anyone else experienced this/knows what it is? | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1321228 | 2013-01-03 01:05:00 | I suppose you say hello or however you answer your phone. I have had these but haven't waited long enough for the goodbye bit but just hung-up. Once I did get a reply when I said hello and it was one of these computer scammers. The voice lag was so slow it wasn't funny. I would say something and about 30 seconds later they would reply. It was a bit like watching a live TV interview from England where the interviewer was in NZ. I just hung up in the end. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1321229 | 2013-01-03 01:15:00 | I think what I was describing and the "windows support" scammers (I've had those too, but not lately) are two different things. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1321230 | 2013-01-03 01:51:00 | Yes, I have had that happen and I think it is what I call a "phone bot", one of those foreigners trying to sell things. We have caller ID so if it is a private number or a non-recognisable number and no one replies within five seconds when I answer the phone then I hang up. They used to be rather frequent but now seem to have dried up a bit, thankfully. |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 1321231 | 2013-01-03 02:18:00 | They used to be rather frequent but now seem to have dried up a bit, thankfully.Yes, the one today was the first for a while. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1321232 | 2013-01-03 02:22:00 | I've had quite a few of those in the past, thought the voice could have sounded Indian. | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1321233 | 2013-01-03 02:30:00 | I couldn't be that definite. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1321234 | 2013-01-03 03:17:00 | I couldn't be that definite. You want someone with Henry Higgins talents. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1321235 | 2013-01-03 03:29:00 | You want someone with Henry Higgins talents.You mean a patronising misogynist? | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1321236 | 2013-01-03 03:48:00 | You mean a patronising misogynist? Mmmmmm, I don't see him that way, more of an ability to recognise Indians. |
Cicero (40) | ||
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