It is a dead give away when they start with "you have a problem with
your windows computer...."
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Philip Northeast
www.aviewfinderdarkly.com.au
On 20/05/2016 11:48 AM, Jack Davis wrote:
From what you related I know my wife and I have chuckled at this guy several
times before hanging up.
Pitiful!
J
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On May 19, 2016, at 5:28 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> 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 :)
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