On Fri, May 20, 2016, at 12:24 PM, Philip Northeast wrote: > It is a dead give away when they start with "you have a problem with > your windows computer...."
Yeah - I just tell them I have a Mac (I don't) and they hang up before I can. I'm tempted to string them along but most of the time I just can't be bothered. Cheers Brian > > Sent from my iMac > > 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 > > > > > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > >> 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 :) > >> > >> -- > >> Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > >> www.robertstech.com > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> [email protected] > >> 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 > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -- -- http://www.fastmail.com - Accessible with your email software or over the web -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
