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| Thread ID: 119018 | 2011-07-01 03:47:00 | scam caller | GameJunkie (72) | PC World Chat |
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| 1213769 | 2011-07-29 06:20:00 | I do think we should start a thread with a prize given to the one who can keep the little shites online the longest .... like a bottle of Speights or something ... :devil: I agree, and how about a second prize for the person with the most calls. I'm well into double figures now and it is starting to affect my relationship with Mrs T. :D We were at dinner last night and the doorbell rang. It was a Vodafone saleperson and he didn't get more than three words out before the door was shut. It appears he called a couple of days ago too (persistent bugger) but Mrs T answered the door. Now I'm the meanest, rudest, nastiest man in the street, according to Mrs T! But all I said was "Sorry, I'm not interested in Vodafone" then I shut the door. Maybe next time I should invite him in, sit him down on the couch, offer coffee, or even a beer maybe, extend an invitation to stay for dinner, heck, stay the night if you want to, waste an hour or three of his valuable time, then let the poor bloke down with a "No thanks, I was only being polite". Yeah Right!! Cheers Billy 8-{) :( |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1213770 | 2011-07-29 07:04:00 | The end was the best :D | The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1213771 | 2011-07-30 07:34:00 | I had my first scam call today! Thought about telling him to bog off or just hanging up but decided I was in the mood for a laugh so played dumb and gave him a bit of a run around. Denied knowing what my OS system was, but took him on a trip all around my computer before he was finally able to get me to my system information etc, then eventually he got me into the event viewer where supposedly I have "very many bad files - all viruses" :lol: Got bored after about 15mins and told him that I'd fetch my husband who is a bit better with computers as he uses them at work. He was keen to speak to him, until I mentioned that he is a policeman, then we seemed to get disconnected. Oh noes!! :punk | catspyjamas (15614) | ||
| 1213772 | 2011-07-31 11:04:00 | I had the technicians from Microsoft calling me every day for over a week. I eventually complained to Telecom who assured me there was nothing they could do and just to hang up each time they called. In the end I told them to F off and hung up, they immediately rang back and started singing F off to me over and over again. If you don't want to play with them then I would suggest having a whistle by the phone. I told the lady from Telecom that that is what I would do and she said it was a great idea as long as I was sure it was them ringing. These people nearly drove me round the bend before they gave up. | ollieogg (6593) | ||
| 1213773 | 2011-07-31 21:04:00 | They stopped ringing me after I told them I had no errors in event viewer, because I'd recently done a reinstall, named a whole load of anti-spywares I use and the AV and at the end of the rather long conversation they figured I might know a wee bit and I agreed and suggested they take me off their scam list. Appears to have worked. This in the paper today: The scams are being run from call centres in India by companies posing on the web as legitimate technology support businesses, that appear to be operating with impunity. The Guardian said frauds were being run from call centres in Kota – a city in northern India with a population of just over 1 million – by a man who was routing the proceeds through India's Axis Bank. The fraudsters are understood to be renting phone numbers from Skype in order to make cheap internet calls to victims, but van den Heuvel assumed they would be doing so using stolen credit cards. Internet users in Canada named a company, 24sevensupportpc.com, which ostensibly sells security software, and a manager, Jagjit Rekhi, who they believed to be behind the frauds in Canada. 24sevensupportpc.com's website is registered to Rekhi at an address in Kolkata (Calcutta). Calls to the contact number on the website – which was shut down on Thursday – were answered by a fluent English speaker who said he was working for a different computer support company, Premium PC Support, in Delhi. He denied knowledge of the scam and said he did not know Rekhi. He told The Dominion Post the software firm appeared to be using his company's phone number without its permission and he would "look into it". It spoke to a manager at an Indian company that had registered one of the shut-down sites, who said the firm employed 400 people, about 200 of whom worked in telesales "cold calling" to generate business. He told the newspaper there had been "a couple of instances" where staff did try to influence customers to believe that they were from Microsoft. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1213774 | 2011-08-01 03:23:00 | [QUOTE=ollieogg;1036126 If you don't want to play with them then I would suggest having a whistle by the phone. .[/QUOTE] I had my first scam call other evening. They rung my work cellphone. And as it happened, I was in a locomotive doing software upgrades, put on my earmuffs, held the phone near the horn and got someone to lay on some noise. For some strange reason the lady scammer wasn't there afterwards....... |
PinoyKiw (9675) | ||
| 1213775 | 2011-08-01 05:47:00 | What are Wainui and Eryad's times? | tuiruru (12277) | ||
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