Con?

[undergroundhunter]

I had an aisan man call me on my works direct line the other day (I give this number to very very few people), he said he was calling to confirm my details to begin the legal proceedings for my accident at work. Now bearing in mind I was at work and I have never been in any sort of accident I began to string him along, gave him a full set of false details, asked him how much he thought I would get, and then proceeded to give him the Spanish inquisition on how they found out about my accident before I did??? He had no answer to this as but we seemed to get cut off just after that, he never called back. Same as he thought my accident was worth some good money. Oh well.

Matt

 

[RogerS]

I like to wind-up financial service companies when they call me out of the blue as I ask them for their security details !

 

[Graham Orm]

I went through a phase of saving the bogus 'please can I put £5,000,000 in you bank' emails and forwarding them on to each other. I also saw a funny cartoon recently. It showed a Somalian gentleman sat in front of a computer with a mountain of cash by his side. He was thinking 'what's wrong with them all, it's free money?'

 

[krashbandikoot]

I used to get calls from the ***** PPI companies but don't any more. Usually it was a bloke calling and I spun it around on them telling them they had an absolutely gorgeous voice and inviting them out to dinner.

One of them threatened to report me to his supervisor for sexual harassment! Not too sure how that would work

 

[wellywood]

My favourite wind-up of a telemarketer (needs sound).

http://www.hark.com/clips/qlztssnyzk-te ... rder-scene

 

[Grahamshed]

That is hilarious, but wouldn't work with most that call me, they would need a better grasp of English.

 

[krashbandikoot]

That was hilarious!!

=D> =D> =D> =D>

It got a bit silly towards the end when it could have gone much further and put the willies right up the telemarketer.

 

[david123]

When I realise it's a con I say to them, can you hang on for a sec, and then come back five minutes later and say I shall only be minute, after that they have usually hung up. I hope that doesn't make me a bad person.lol.
Fortunately as I'm retired I have the time to play games.

There are a lot of sad people in this world.

 

[Grahamshed]

I often just lay the phone down and leave them talking to themselves. Some of them take ages to hang up

 

[John15]

BT have a service that blocks almost all these nuisance calls. It's about £1.50 a month, or maybe a quarter. I used to be bombarded with these calls but hardly get any now.

John

 

[JustBen]

I like to wind them up when I have time.
I become the village ***** and ask them as many random questions as I can or tell them about how I watched a snail in the garden then go on to explain (in great detail) where he had been and what he had done.

Even when my bank ring and I know it's genuine, I still don't give them my details.
They ask me to confirm my security details and I say
"I can confirm that I am me, can you confirm who you are?"
"On the 4th of June, I paid in a sum of money, can you confirm what it was..."

Ooh and my favourite one is answering the phone with "Hobnobs and ****ie tassels" or "helga's house of pain" etc.
It's gets interesting when it's the doctor, letting agent, daughters Headteacher. Ha ha

Maybe that's why no-one rings me any more.....

 

[david123]

I think doing that is the best solution Grayham. Hopefully they will take you of their call list for wasting their time lol

 

[Ali]

it's not just con men from abroad, plenty over here too calling me about the accident i had and £'000's waiting for me :roll: :roll:

 

[Sawyer]

I get the 'Unclaimed money - via you bank a/c - we'll split the proceeds ... &c &.' emails on a daily basis. Always with the standard 'I know I can trust you.. ' bit. It seems I've had a good character reference from On High, because a recent spammer had only decided to contact me 'after a week of prayer and fasting' and was therefore utterly sure of my good faith. :roll:

 

[Grahamshed]

only decided to contact me 'after a week of prayer and fasting' and was therefore utterly sure of my good faith. :roll:

Funny how they think that is going to impress anyone over here.

 

[markturner]

When this happens, I usually pretend to be "mentally challenged" and with a speech impediment....childish but lots of fun, they usually last no more than a couple of minutes..........

 

[Alex H]

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26818745

Definately worth doing if this is all you get when caught :shock:

A man who ran a Microsoft computer scam tricking people into paying for free anti-virus software has received a suspended four-month jail sentence.

Mohammed Khalid Jamil, 34, from Luton, hired people at an Indian call centre to falsely tell victims their computers had a serious problem.

The targets would be charged between £35 and £150 for software Microsoft made available for free.

As well as the suspended sentence, Jamil was ordered to pay a £5,000 fine.

He must also pay £5,665 compensation and £13,929 in prosecution costs.

 

[Mark Hancock]

Just had a very nice man from Microsoft call me to tell me about the reports they have been getting from my computer regarding the viruses on it. He very kindly offered to fix it for me. I did explain the computer wasn't switch on and that I didn't know how to do that as the wife always does it for me. He did try to talk me through how to switch it on but I could only find a waste paper bin under the table and not a ceepeeyew. After about ten minutes and as I don't know when the wife will be back he's going to call again tomorrow. Hope he can fix it then.

 

[MMUK]

BT have a service that blocks almost all these nuisance calls. It's about £1.50 a month, or maybe a quarter. I used to be bombarded with these calls but hardly get any now.

John

It's free to register with TPS :wink:

 

[Spindle]

Hi

Call blocking only works for calls originating in UK - the nuisance callers have been routing the calls internationally for ages - to my knowledge there is no currently available facility to block international calls.

Live with them, get abusive, whatever takes your fancy but you won't get rid of them :evil: :evil:

Regards Mick