Love it...is it Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday...etc. LOL. Agree with the idea of playing them along. I did similar to this guy, "I have 5 computers, which one is faulty". Spun the guy on for about 5 minutes before he comes back with "Ah, you are some sort of smart***. Bet you are jack of all trades and master of none". At that point I lost it with him and my kids heard some new words :-) Felt kind of relaxing to scream some choice language down the phone at some Indian clown.
On 6 June 2012 21:18, Les Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > Ian Thomas wrote: > >> >> I’ve had several calls like this in the last couple of years (and my wife >> had one just yesterday), but this overseas call from an (Indian-accepted) >> “Computer Maintenance Department” was spun out to 7 minutes by one of the >> SMBIT guys who received it today. It lightened my mood considerably >> >> Put all your computers in your … <http://www.youtube.com/watch?** >> v=Ht51A_AbHOY&feature=youtu.be<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht51A_AbHOY&feature=youtu.be> >> **> >> >> >> Received a call today from "Computer Maintenance Department" trying to >> tell me my computer was faulty and I needed to give them access to "fix it" >> it for me. Decided to have a bit of fun. The ending was unexpected and >> hilarious. >> >> ------------------------------**------------------------------** >> ------------ >> >> >> Ian Thomas >> Victoria Park, Western Australia >> >> > LOL. > > Some people hang up on them when they make the call, I'd recommend > everyone playing a game of "how long can I keep you on the phone." If > everyone who wised on to them tied up their time, it would work somewhat > like a scammer-DDOS. > > Something else worth doing: if you are being phished via email, check that > the URL has no identifying details (so they know it came from your email > address) and fill out the form with fake info. If everyone filled out BS in > those forms, it would once again eat up the time of these people, and > perhaps help the banks see suspect logins when there are several failures > on non-existent accounts from a certain IP address/range. > > http://www.419eater.com/ is a website where the scammer gets scammed. > Somewhat amusing if you have the time to take a look. > -- > Les Hughes > [email protected] >
