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| Thread ID: 118004 | 2011-05-15 06:36:00 | Scam Phone Calls | Newteach (4990) | Press F1 |
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| 1202267 | 2011-05-15 06:36:00 | At the moment around our small town we are getting a number of those phone calls where some foreign caller says that they are calling to tell us we have a virus. After checking and cross checking our stories we all seem to have the same story, a short 5 digit phone number or unlisted number on caller I.D., a pause of a few seconds before anyone speaks, and a **** story. This is obviously a scam of some kind but my question is, is there anything 'Nasty' I can do back to them, maybe like press some combination of keys to make their exchange blow up, I have resorted to having a refs whistle by the phone now but there must be something better to stick it to these guys or at least make me feel better. NT:devil |
Newteach (4990) | ||
| 1202268 | 2011-05-15 06:39:00 | Report them? AFAIK Telecom can see the number even if you can't. |
bot (15449) | ||
| 1202269 | 2011-05-15 06:47:00 | They are doing the rounds here as well. You could do what I did ... I suddenly became the village idiot of computer users and it took him 6 mins to explain to me how to find my start button. Once I "managed" to find that, for some reason I couldn't find the control panel icon next. I also told him my operating system was "Office 2003". :devil At this point he said he had to go and ask his supervisor what to do when you had a 'missing' control panel icon and to please wait on the phone ... I hung up as soon as he put me on hold. I felt those 6 mins were well spent wasting his time. :D |
Jen (38) | ||
| 1202270 | 2011-05-15 06:48:00 | You can post on the site that's on the Herald site Here www.nzherald.co.nz It is a scam they get people to install something like Logmein. Get in then screw the system up. My sister's mate in oz got sucked in. Paid $250 for nothing. I went in later with teamviewer. Whoever it was, they disabled everything to do with the error reporting. Disabled error reporting under the advanced tab, disabled the service etc |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1202271 | 2011-05-15 07:02:00 | So it sounds like the Ref's whistle down the phone line is the best for making me feel better then...lol | Newteach (4990) | ||
| 1202272 | 2011-05-15 07:21:00 | They are doing the rounds here as well . You could do what I did . . . I suddenly became the village idiot of computer users and it took him 6 mins to explain to me how to find my start button . Once I "managed" to find that, for some reason I couldn't find the control panel icon next . I also told him my operating system was "Office 2003" . :devil At this point he said he had to go and ask his supervisor what to do when you had a 'missing' control panel icon and to please wait on the phone . . . I hung up as soon as he put me on hold . I felt those 6 mins were well spent wasting his time . :D Or say "What start button? I just have a linux terminal" |
bot (15449) | ||
| 1202273 | 2011-05-15 07:33:00 | Or say "What start button? I just have a linux terminal" I've been waiting for them to call me just so I can say exactly :) |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1202274 | 2011-05-15 07:34:00 | Tell them you've got a Mac, they really hate that. LL |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 1202275 | 2011-05-15 07:40:00 | Tell them you've got a Mac, they really hate that. LL Or DOS - "Hang on, how much memory do you want me to allocate first?" |
bot (15449) | ||
| 1202276 | 2011-05-15 07:41:00 | Their first question is "Do you have a Windows computer"? If you want to cut the call short, then say no. If you want to have some fun ... :devil | Jen (38) | ||
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