So we all scam the scammers!!! WICKED! :o:o
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So we all scam the scammers!!! WICKED! :o:o
I must be rude. I just say I'm not interested and hang up.
My BIL says he needs to go to the bathroom, puts down the phone and just walks off. Says he's tying up their line, but I assume they eventually hang up.
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I just say I'm not interested in fixing the computer and would prefer if they just disconnect me.
I think it is important to have a variety of potential responses. :)
There are some that are best used when you are bored or are feeling mischievous and want to see how much of the caller's time you can waste.
There are some that are useful if you are curious about what the latest scam involves.
There are others that are more appropriate for the times when you have better things to do and want to end the call quickly.
Thanks to some of the responses, I now have a greater repertoire of responses. :)
In the past I have gone through the whole rigmarole with many stops, starts and u-turns, due to my supposed ignorance of computers. Only at the last step when they wanted me to allow control of the PC did I tell them that sorry I wasn't going to do that. This resulted in death threats to myself and family which was amusing.
I really wanted to load puppy linux on one of my spare laptops and let them take control of it and laugh at there confusion when they got in, but to be honest I just don't have the time and since the last call I mentioned I've had no more.
Last time I had one of them, I went along with them, putting the phone down for a minute at a time while I 'typed' (I was eating tea). After 15 minutes and them getting frustrated and me saying is done everythung they'd asked, I finally said 'Does the computer have to be on?'
Beep, beep, beep....
Had a land line call from a sub-continental gentleman this evening who claimed he was from TELSTRA and that they had noticed some suspicious downloads onto my computer which was malware that could harm my router. I told him he was not fair dinkum which he then countered by giving me his TELSTRA Employee Id No. and told me my 16 digit account number.
Having my suspicions aroused he then told me to go onto my computer hit Ctrl R and put in a code would start the fix for all my woes. By the way my computer is running fine and I regularly check my Malware scanning software.
While I had this guy on the line I looked up TELSTRA scams on my mobile phone and found a site from TELSTRA about this.
https://www.telstra.com.au/content/d...ra-calling.pdf
So I phoned them while I had him on the other line. When I told him I had TELSTRA on the other line and that they wanted to talk to him he was not so keen to proceed and hung up.
The real TELTSRA guy told me this was the fifth call they had this evening about the same thing. He said if I had put in this code it would allow them to access info on my computer. So guys and gals beware and if they call tell them to take a long walk off a short wharf.
I have had a similar call a few times.
Usually when I get that call and I tell then that my operating system is Linux, they give up. However, the last time I was passed on to his supervisor.
He wanted me to do a few things that I knew would install some software that gave him access to my computer.
When I said that I wasn't happy about installing software that would give him control of my computer, he tried to convince me that he wouldn't have access.
I knew that wasn't true and said I wasn't prepared to install the software. He became quite aggressive and said that my internet access would be cut of in two minutes.
That was about two months ago and of course I still have internet access. :)
I tell them I'm running Windows 3.1 and that it may take a while because I haven't upgraded to the new fangled 56K modem yet - that confuses the **** out of them.
I can understand the confusion - why would you update the latest and greatest 56k modem? lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Homestar
Tom.