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Would anyone like to buy a fleet of harrier jets and an aircraft carrier….
Just send me 30,000 GBP and i will fly them to you………….Honest:dev2:

Happy Christmas Guys!

If I am in the mood and not busy I will drag it out for a few minutes with my totally incompetent attempts to follow their instructions. Moggy

We get the same out here, all sorts of calls from trying to change your web carrier to cheaper power and cheaper phone calls/mobile phones. If I’m feeling playful I’ll drag it out as long as possible, while I’m keepinum busy they aren’t annoying anybody else. My personal best is 22 minutes, you have to be prepared to change your tack and work compliantly withum.
Usually our calls come from India/Asia. The calls normally start with a long pause then “Could I speak to the manager/owner of the company please”. You say “Speaking” and away they go.
“It’s Stephen here ringing from Melbourne, how are you sir?”
“I’m extremely well and thank you very much for asking” That throws them a bit then they start.
Then I’ll say “You don’t sound like a Steven to me, you sound more like Sanjeev” After a bit of trying to deflect the comments they start the hard sell if they haven’t said I ask where they are ringing from. The likes of Melbourne I ask “What’s the weather like in Melbourne?” When they reply I tell them what the weather is really like. You can go on for ages before they start to get stroppy, mostly they’ll just keep trying no matter how rude/ignorant/stupid you are.
If you’ve got a bit of spare time see how long you can string them out, if they are going to waste your time why not waste a bit of their phone bill?:D

Absolute pisser, genius work. 😀

Agreed 100% ,well worth the half hours read and laughter.

I spend some time working from home and must get three or four of the (almost unintelligible sub-continent voice) “This is Windows security company, we have detected that you have a virus on your computer and we want to help you fix it remotely”

My favoured response to that one is

“How can you be sure my computer has a Virus… have you hacked into my computer … isn’t that illegal ?”

If you are at a loose end for half an hour or so try this one done on a 419 scammer. I love it!

http://419eater.com/html/okorie.htm

Absolute pisser, genius work. 😀

This man fell for it hook line and sinker.

A chartered surveyor turned conman to cheat his closest friends out of more than £1million after he became convinced he had won the Spanish lottery.
Arthur Stimpson began a four year prison term yesterday after being sentenced at Norwich Crown Court on 13 counts of fraud and two of forgery.

The 56-year-old fed lie after lie to his childhood friends, a former neighbour, the godparents of his children and kept his wife in the dark, as he faked her signature in a bid to raise money and send it to Spain to claim his lottery ‘winnings’.

Stimpson, a respected chartered surveyor from Plumstead, used his good reputation in the community and a promise of up to 500% interest on loans to borrow money from those who trusted him most.

Despite being warned by police in autumn 2009 that he had fallen victim to a lottery scam he continued to borrow money totalling £1,154,000.

In July 2007 he received a letter saying he had won around 3.3m euros on the Spanish lotto.

Full story here. http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/how_norfolk_surveyor_s_spanish_lottery_dream_damaged_family_and_friends_1_1157864

A few months ago I had a phone call claiming to be from Windows in Luton telling me that my computer was sending them error messages.

You can report any fraud or scam to http://actionfraud.org.uk including the phishing emails you get. Most of the major banks etc now have an email address to which you can forward any phishing emails. e.g., [email]ihaveseenascam@co-operativebank.co.uk[/email], [email]phishing@santander.co.uk[/email]. There are also [email]phishing@cityoflondon.police.uk[/email] and
[email]phishing@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk[/email].

If you go through the reporting pages at action fraud uk they will give you an email address at the end for forwarding.

I have no idea if anyone actually does more than collect statistics or send out warnings but I alaways forward the emails just in case they can trace the links and close them down. I only takes a few seconds.

when the kids were younger I gave all cold callers to them to chat to on the phone, that was good sport but now my youngest was 8, it doesn’t seem to work.

You can play along like Moggy C mentioned if in the mood, otherwise I keep a whistle in the little bowl that sits by the phone (you know the one, with keys, an old reciept, a single chewing gum half out of its wrapper…) – a sharp blast with that does the trick.

BUT, my old mum was scammed out of £75 for an “energy saving device”…. via her card details after a call…. while we all laugh about it, there is a nasty serious side to these b******ds…. rather than call one of us (4 sons) it was bus into town, queue at the bank to speak to “somebody” to sort out card to be cancelled etc.

On the silent(or missed) call issue I use this site.

http://www.whocalls.co.uk/

As for the scammers who pretend to be from Microsoft Windows saying I have a problem. I say I don’t have a problem I got them from SafestyleUK. That throws them.

BTW I cannot afford double glazing at the moment until my money comes from Nigeria!:D

I spend some time working from home and must get three or four of the (almost unintelligible sub-continent voice) “This is Windows security company, we have detected that you have a virus on your computer and we want to help you fix it remotely”

If I am in the mood and not busy I will drag it out for a few minutes with my totally incompetent attempts to follow their instructions. I always like asking after a suitable length of time “Is that the key next to the one with the little picture of an apple on it?”

Increasingly they are getting quite viscious now in their response. One of them seemed to be implying I had carnal knowledge of his female parent (Which I denied)

But if I am busy they are a pain.

I think I get their auto-dialler silent calls about as often

Moggy

Next thing will be an ex Nigerian Air Force Stirling!:D

Wow! Put me down for two!:D:diablo:

I take it the professor wasn’t from the Harvard School of Business.

I don’t remember if it was the Business School or not, but it was something like that, perhaps an economics professor. Surprisingly, he was -not- a professor of Nepalese wind-chime studies or something like that, he was in fact somebody who clearly should have known better. But somebody greedy no matter what.

Greed is the driver, unfortunately, not intelligence. Several years ago, there was a Harvard professor–and I admit this as a Harvard graduate–who fell for a Nigerian scam. He lost tens of thousands of dollars, as I remember.

There is an old saying…you can’t con an honest man.
What kind of guy would think to himself…”There’s a pile of money for international aid/disaster relief….How can I get a piece of that?”

I take it the professor wasn’t from the Harvard Business School. 😀

LMAO :D:D

Presumably the spammer was registered on the Forum in order to contact a member and he/she has been reported and shown the back door?:diablo:

Wokka Bob, I am glad I cheered you up a bit in your time of sadness. I must admit though I usually have the opposite effect on most people!:)

I know the feeling, but don’t take it personal. Its meant to hurt!:diablo:
Thanks again. See you on the bright side of 2012.:D

Wokka Bob, I am glad I cheered you up a bit in your time of sadness. I must admit though I usually have the opposite effect on most people!:)

If you are at a loose end for half an hour or so try this one done on a 419 scammer. I love it!

http://419eater.com/html/okorie.htm

Absolutely priceless. Made my Christmas after losing my best friend recently.

If you are at a loose end for half an hour or so try this one done on a 419 scammer. I love it!

http://419eater.com/html/okorie.htm

.. but there were a couple of misspellings so glaring that they could only have been made by an English-as-a-second-language type.

Good spot.

You don’t see the scams so often these days as the spam filters are more sophisticated, but I always used to enjoy the (authentic-looking) bank ones that asked you to log in with your password.

It always amazed me that if I decided my password for that account today was going to be ‘goawayyousillyspammers’ (Or something ruder) I still moved on to the next stage of the procedure.

Moggy