Bloody offshore scumbag cold callers!!!!!!

Bloody offshore scumbag cold callers!!!!!!

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grumpyscot

1,277 posts

191 months

Friday 16th October 2015
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I bought a Truecall machine and don't get any unwanted calls now. Went from 6 a day to nil!

tonygt3

255 posts

222 months

Friday 16th October 2015
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a simple answer machine, screen your calls.

Hard-Drive

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4,076 posts

228 months

Friday 16th October 2015
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Ignoring it, answering it and hanging up, and screening it are not really options, as the phones around the house will still ring, invariably when I am on some important conference call on the work phone.

Some good gadgets there and those BT DECT phones look OK, I suspect that will be the route forward. And rather than getting wound up every time, I will now look forward to calls from these twunts so they can get sin binned!

Woohoo!


rodericb

6,660 posts

125 months

Sunday 18th October 2015
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I don't get many of these types of calls. Anyway, if there is no ambient noise when I am saying hello, i just hang up. Reason being that some of these places have a dialer which routes the call to a person when you answer the call. That takes a second or two, during which time the line is silent.

Eric Mc

121,779 posts

264 months

Sunday 18th October 2015
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I had one yesterday. Indian chap called "Mike" (I don't think so) wanted to ask me some questions to see if I was eligible for solar power feed-in tariff. The first question was -

"Are you the homeowner?"

My reply - "Does it matter?"

His reply - "What?"

My re[ply - "As I said, does it really matter?"

His reply - "F**k off". At which point he hung up.

Roadster2

31 posts

101 months

Sunday 18th October 2015
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Chevykevv said:
I had one the other day at work.

Overseas Gent "Good morning sir, we believe somebody who uses this phone has had an accident in the last 2 years"
Me "this is a switchboard with 3000 people using it, which one would you like me to put you through to?" Total lie as it's only me.

Overseas Gent " erm..........Mr Smith"
Me " Oh come on you're not even really trying"

OG " Mrs.............Brown"

Me "Nope try again"

OG hung up.

I was a bit bored.
I had the same call last week, said I would be paid £4000 for the accident. I asked what injuries I had suffered, she didnt know, just that I would have £4000. Asked when I would have the cheque, she said as soon as I give her my name and address.

Bless her.



Sheepshanks

32,531 posts

118 months

Sunday 18th October 2015
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Eric Mc said:
I had one yesterday. Indian chap called "Mike" (I don't think so) wanted to ask me some questions to see if I was eligible for solar power feed-in tariff. The first question was -

"Are you the homeowner?"

My reply - "Does it matter?"

His reply - "What?"

My re[ply - "As I said, does it really matter?"

His reply - "F**k off". At which point he hung up.
If you tell any of them you rent they usually just hang up. Very rude.

Russwhitehouse

962 posts

130 months

Sunday 18th October 2015
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I used to get calls from India pretending to be from Microsoft on a regular basis. Once I told them I was going to put the phone to one side without hanong up and leave it there for a good few hours, thus costing them money as they would be unable to break the connection, the calls stopped. My personal best was eight hours. That would have cost a pretty penny calling from Mumbai.

matchmaker

8,463 posts

199 months

Sunday 18th October 2015
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Yuanj%C2%AE-Nuisance-Call-...

£25 from Amazon. Works brilliantly.

9patch

2,835 posts

188 months

Sunday 18th October 2015
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Chevykevv said:
I had one the other day at work.

Overseas Gent "Good morning sir, we believe somebody who uses this phone has had an accident in the last 2 years"
Me "this is a switchboard with 3000 people using it, which one would you like me to put you through to?" Total lie as it's only me.

Overseas Gent " erm..........Mr Smith"
Me " Oh come on you're not even really trying"

OG " Mrs.............Brown"

Me "Nope try again"

OG hung up.

I was a bit bored.
Had that one about a week ago.

Rawwr

22,722 posts

233 months

Sunday 18th October 2015
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"Our records show you were involved in an accident in the last three years, is that correct?"

"Yes, I got your mum pregnant."

If that doesn't make them hang up then telling them you just need to answer the door and you'll be back in a second... before putting the phone on speaker and putting on a very loud porn video can pass the time.

Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

185 months

Sunday 18th October 2015
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Ste1987 said:
There are plenty of landline phones that have call-blocking features, nowadays
This. Get one. Brilliant.

Or what I do on my mobile which is say I am a bit deaf (not a lie) and could they speak up.

Repeat until they are absolutely bellowing, then say I heard them the first time.

AAGR

918 posts

160 months

Sunday 18th October 2015
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I sometimes get obviously fraudulent calls from an overseas person who calls himself by a false UK Christian name.

When he tells me that he is calling from the Microsoft Technical Department, and that he knows that I have a fault on my computer which he can fix, I politely interrupt him and tell him :

'But I don't have a computer' (which isn't true)

- this completely ruins his day ....


BullyB

2,344 posts

246 months

Sunday 18th October 2015
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we have one of these:



and one of these on order:



doesn't stop the callers but makes us feel smug...

DukeDickson

4,721 posts

212 months

Monday 19th October 2015
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Eric Mc said:
I had one yesterday. Indian chap called "Mike" (I don't think so) wanted to ask me some questions to see if I was eligible for solar power feed-in tariff. The first question was -

"Are you the homeowner?"

My reply - "Does it matter?"

His reply - "What?"

My re[ply - "As I said, does it really matter?"

His reply - "F**k off". At which point he hung up.
You let Mike be rude and swear first - nonolaugh

mr_spock

3,340 posts

214 months

Monday 19th October 2015
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We had a "Windows Technical Department" one the other day. I put him on speaker and had an "argument" with my wife about her watching porn on my computer and getting it infected. Then I couldn't find the "windows" key because I have a mini keyboard and it's not in the usual place.

He hung up after 20 minutes wink

I've had these in the past - responses so far:
"Which computer, I have 10 here" - hangs up
"What's the MAC address?" - hangs up
"I pressed Windows/R" - "what does it say?" - "it says you're a liar"

wildcat45

8,056 posts

188 months

Monday 19th October 2015
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We live in my late parents' house and I kept the landline number because it has been ours for more than 30 years. Probably should change it.

Despite TPS we get the sales calls and also the criminal Microsoft calls.

The wired ones are Indian in origin and they ask for my late Dad. Dead nearly a decade so clearly not an up to date phone list.

They ask for him.

First time I said he was dead and the woman feigned upset. Then went on to say she was a 'good business friend' of my Dad. Peristant to say the least.

Believe me he had no business with anyone from India.

Got one the other week asking for him. Asked who was calling. 'A friend'. When I pretended to be him he didn't believe me and became very aggressive which was funny as I have a rather good vocabulary when it comes to countering that sort of caper.

The thing is, the calls catch you on the hop and only come every few months. I really should just say I am him from the start.

My guess is it is some scam aimed at old folks.

I'm content to toy with them if I'm bored.

I rarely get rude with genuine sales calls. They are a pain but by and large legal and the person doing the calling is just someone trying to earn a few quid. 'No thank you, we are on TPS. Goodbye' is all you need.

Edited by wildcat45 on Monday 19th October 18:26

Hard-Drive

Original Poster:

4,076 posts

228 months

Monday 19th October 2015
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I must admit, even as the OP, for the "accident you had in the last few years calls" I usually say "oh, the malfunctioning lightsaber", "when Lewis took me out at Becketts", "when I was in a 4g inverted dive and I gave the bogey the bird, you know, the bird" or when a colleague of mine "re-configured the warp core and ejected the dilithium crystal drive without telling me first" and have a bit of fun...

mr_spock

3,340 posts

214 months

Tuesday 24th November 2015
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Just had another "tech support" one. I told him I had one hand so all the keys were in different places. After about 10 minutes of wasting his time, I asked him how long the scam was going on. He went quiet, then said:

"What?"
"How long is this scam going one? You're going to ask me to run some software to get remote control of my computer, then you're going for my bank details"

He lost it - called me an effing ahole twice, then said I should take his dick in my mouth (what?) and called me an ahole again. I asked him if his supervisor reviewed the call recordings, and he hung up.

Wish I'd recorded it, I feel quite proud.

RizzoTheRat

25,085 posts

191 months

Tuesday 24th November 2015
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mr_spock said:
We had a "Windows Technical Department" one the other day. I put him on speaker and had an "argument" with my wife about her watching porn on my computer and getting it infected. Then I couldn't find the "windows" key because I have a mini keyboard and it's not in the usual place.

He hung up after 20 minutes wink

I've had these in the past - responses so far:
"Which computer, I have 10 here" - hangs up
"What's the MAC address?" - hangs up
"I pressed Windows/R" - "what does it say?" - "it says you're a liar"
My mother managed to keep on of those on the phone for ages talking her through all the menus options she had to select on her PC but she somehow couldn't find. He hung up after she eventually asked if he was sure it was the same on her Mac biggrin