Thread: Are the Indians giving you the irrits ?

Tell em the phone lines pretty bad and can they call you on another ....
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Make sure you are on the do not call register.

https://www.donotcall.gov.au/

Then if they call ask for their name, compnany, and contact telephone number - last time they rang me they provided the details. Next, lodge a complaint with do not call.

Once I've got the details I ask them if they;ve heard of the do not call register. You get some interesting replies, varying from a hasty retreat to claims that small business is exempt (that from a repeat offender, according to the do not call people). I've never heard back from anyone who I've challenged...

Once going on the do not call register we only get about one cold call per month (at most).

Unfortunatly the do not call register does not apply to OS call centres I get sometimes 3 per day and am on the register I run a small bussiness from home but we generate about 3000 incoming calls per day and they want us to change to their billing service

I had a call from my bank the other day, they wanted answers to their normal security questions, not account numbers, mother maiden name ,that sort of thing,, I asked them to prove to me they were from my financial institution,,
not interested at all in doing that---
so I hung up.
I have no doubt that they actually were from the bank, but sometimes you just gotta rattle their cage,,

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

I had a call from my bank the other day, they wanted answers to their normal security questions, not account numbers, mother maiden name ,that sort of thing,, I asked them to prove to me they were from my financial institution,,
not interested at all in doing that---
so I hung up.
I have no doubt that they actually were from the bank, but sometimes you just gotta rattle their cage,,

Been there, done that!

John

Originally Posted by PhilipA

At about 6Pm , I received a phone call telling me
"Jello I yam from microsoft and want to tell you you have a problem with your computer."
me-What is your ABN? him-IBM what is this IBM.
Me-This is a scam -**** OFF.
This is the THIRD call I have received.
Maybe next time I will tell him the only ones who fall for this are old ladies like his mum.
Regards Philip A

Wife answered the phone to the same line yesterday...

3 other people I know in our town have had the same call...

Wife handed the phone to me and I let him go a while...
"your windows pc is uploading virus to us.." blah blah...
Need to buy software, blah blah...
Can purchase on phone, just need your CC.... etc etc...

When I said.. "How is this possible? I run a Mac.."
I got abused in Indian and the phone went dead!

Originally Posted by Tombie

When I said.. "How is this possible? I run a Mac.."
I got abused in Indian and the phone went dead!

*thumbs up*

Make sure you are on the do not call register.

I yam telling you that I yam by jingo.

All they do is portal through Skype at no cost and its a local call in OZ. There is no control over the Bangalore boiler rooms.
Regards Philip A