>From what you related I know my wife and I have chuckled at this guy several >times before hanging up. Pitiful! J
Sent from my iPhone > On May 19, 2016, at 5:28 PM, Mark Roberts <postmas...@robertstech.com> wrote: > > Igor PDML-StR wrote: > >> Yep, and "You've got a virus on your computer" is yet another popular one. >> I've had those calling me a couple of times. >> The last time I asked: on which computer? >> The guy asked: "How many do you have?" >> I: 12 >> <hangs up> >> >> A more interesting variation of that is described here: >> http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/11/malwarebytes > > Another common scam is the debt collector demanding you pay a > fictitious debt. Somewhere on YouTube there's a hilarious video in > which one of those crooks calls the emergency phone in an elevator! > (Apparently at least some of those emergency calls can accept incoming > calls.) They guy in the elevator keeps trying to explain "you've > called an *elevator* here!" but the Indian scammer isn't having it. > > My own response messages in Phone Tray Free are varied to suit the > scam, but they all begin with me saying "Hello?" in the normal tone of > voice in which I usually answer the phone, followed by a pause. This > gets the phone bank drone on the other end to pick up, thinking he's > got someone on the line (if you don't waste some of their time it just > leaves them free to hit more numbers, one of which might be someone > who could fall for their ploy). For the numbers that belong to the > credit card scammers the "hello" is followed by the DTMF signal for > "1" (because you have to press 1 to get to a live operator). Then > there's a minute or two of a recording of me pretending to be sealing > with a bad connection. Frustrates and annoys them no end :) > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
