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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Heiny on November 19, 2011, 05:33:30 PM
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Had a phone call about 30 mins ago with some woman (sounded indian) claiming to be from some software company on behalf of Microsoft, because my computer was sending out error messages and she wanted to help me protect my computer ::)
I let her go on for a bit, then she wanted me to go to my computer. I asked which one as 3 computers running MS on in the household at the moment ??? she says I think it's the desk top go and try that one HTF would she know if it's the desk top ??? so I play along and go to the desk top and she starts to give direction on how to give her remote access to my PC :o NOT FARKING LIKELY >:(
I told her that I am going to report her to the ACCC and she immediately hung up >:D
I then binged "microsoft error message scam" and found the following warning from Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/australia/presspass/post/New-twist-on-computer-error-messagevirus-scams-Joint-Warning
Be carefull out there swaggers
bubba :cheers:
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http://myswag.org/forum/index.php?topic=16690
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http://myswag.org/forum/index.php?topic=16690
Oops the "thread in the wrong place police" have caught me :-[
One of the mods will move if they see fit
bubba :cheers:
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I always answer the phone with humour ... "my home town Fish & Chips ... may I take your order please?". My friends always order Barra & Chips, people who don't know me but actually want me ask for me or check the number, overseas callers hang up and never call back ... which beats that Government call blocking scam hands down.
Kit_e
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I always answer the phone with humour ... "my home town Fish & Chips ... may I take your order please?". My friends always order Barra & Chips, people who don't know me but actually want me ask for me or check the number, overseas callers hang up and never call back ... which beats that Government call blocking scam hands down.
Kit_e
I like your style Kit_e
bubba :cheers:
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Funnily, I received a call at about 3:00 and again at 4:00 pm today on the same topic.
Must say the accents were pretty strong and difficult to understand.
Told them to go away please.
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Yep, old scam these days
but there was an interesting article in one of the Melb papers last week on the amount of people getting caught out by scams these days, and its scarey!
if they get .01% of people they call falling for their scams, then they will be very rich
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They rang me the other day, knew straight away it was a scam.
"Is now a good time to turn on your computer?"
Oh yes , now is good
"Now go to blah blah"
I cant find that.
"Oh it is here (directions)"
No I cant see that, maybe I need to restart.
" Ok that will fix it"
3 mins later
Ok its back on now
" Can you see xyz?"
NO, Im worried now because it is not there.
"Are you using a windows PC?"
No, Ubuntu, does that matter?
click.
take that arseholes. >:D
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caught me :'(
was not an Indian type voice but a kindly yank, I first thought it was fairdinkum as they knew my surname and other (private) information, as soon as they said they would need to get into my computer and fix my problem for me for free, the 'penny' dropped heavy on me, as I had seen a story about it on tv the previous week, so I told them I would have to call them back as I had a neighbour come in - never got their number, but have had at least 2 other calls and they both had the distinct Indian dialect
How they got my full name and address was a bit of a worry, as I'm privately listed on the electoral roll and thought I was totally incognito, so must have been on the web by collection of information via unauthorised means :-[
May in future use the "Busso fish n chips" idea ;D ;D
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My favourite answer techniques are
1/. City Morgue, you stab em, we slab em
2/. Underground Airways, how may I help you
3/. Just keep saying "hello, hello" as if you can't hear them, gets them really frustrated & then they hang up.
It's great having fun with Indians named Derek, or Sam or Celia etc etc
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Answering with "Welcome to telstra, I'm ______________ , How can I help you" Seems to stop them. ;D ;D
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I've had several of them....
I'm registered on the do not call register, but that doesnt seem to matter these days.
I've found that if you talk softly so they listen closely then blow the beejeezus out of a whistle. >:D >:D >:D
At least I know, I've annoyed them..... ;D
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Oops the "thread in the wrong place police" have caught me :-[
1st warning :)
(http://blkmav.com/myswag/threadpol.jpg)
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I'm registered on the do not call register
That only works for legitimate companies, not illegal scammers.
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I just order indian food off them.........they either hang up or start abusing you.........no problems with either result.
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Hi,
I have had quite a few of these calls, I either wank them around for a while then abuse them or just abuse them as loud as I can yell(wording censured :D).
Low life scum
Ray
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nobody rings me :-[ :-[
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nobody rings me :-[ :-[
Probably because they are not yet fluent in speaking speewa ;D
bubba :cheers:
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Errrh !!! telemarketers - the best ways to answer:
"Hi I'm Dougie the DragQueen, this call has been charged at $19.95 for each 30 seconds"
"No, No !!!! I ordered butter chicken not rogan josh"
"Hello ........wait a sec ........(playing adult video back through phone).......... I'm finished !!, you still there?"
Start to sing/whistle some random song, try and get them to join in.
T-a-l-k r-e-a-l-l-y s-l-o-w-l-y and say "w-h-a-t w-a-s t-h-a-t" every 5 words.
Try and ask them out on a date
My sons favourites
"Hello ....... just a sec, I'll need to wipe and flush before I can talk"
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My wife got one of these idiots a while back. For a bit of fun she gave the phone to the then 4 yo boy. Don't little kids love to talk crap on the phone!! Wife was able to do a couple of jobs around the house before reporting back to Mhadu, who by then was pissed off and was offering to give lollies and chocolate to the kid if he put Mum back on the phone. Then she cut loose on him. Something about being rude, an idiot, and NO ONE gives that child lollies.
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I usually tell them I am on another call and I put them on hold....the record is 45 minutes to date and I usually finish it by ordering pizza from them....they hate that !! >:D
Cheers
JT
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After about eight calls in a couple of days I rang the local cops, then telstra, then my local member. These guys are using internet calling and thus unable to be blocked.
So if I can't stop them, it is time to have some fun. This is my list of techniques so far.
My favourite is to put on the creepy voice and tell them I am naked and ask them what they are wearing?
Pretend that I am a member of the AFP and ask them to hold on why I set a trace going.
Pretend to have a heart attack and ask them to get help. They never do, but it plays on their mind.
Put them onto one of the kids to get told of all sort of crap.
Fart and burp into the phone - yeah, I am a bloke.
If they are male, ask them if they have a single sister or if they are female, a single brother.
Try to convert them to a religion.
See if they want sell one of their kidneys or eyes.
Play along but swear continously (not at them but just in general with plenty of Fs and Cs)
Brag about catching a fish or some other rubbish.
Stir the hell out of them about their cricket team's effort in England.
Pretend to be hammered (sometimes I don't have to pretend) and slur and stumble my way along.
Ask them if I can use them as a job application reference from a dole form.
Try to sell them drugs.
Tell them there is a power outage.
But the best came when my dad (75) was visiting and he wanted a go. They went on with their story about being a windows support company and so Dad replies that their assistance would be greatly appreciated. Excited that they have finally snarred one, dad goes on trying to organise a time for them to come. Bemused they question, but he keeps on that Thursday is no good as he has a prostrate exam to be done, but Friday would be good if that works ok with them. Eventually he ask when they will be coming over and they say they can do it remotely by just talking him through it. He responds that he already knows how to service his windows but as he is too old now they are getting dirty and too high for him to reach, so needs them to service them. They try to explain, but he keeps on at them until eventually they give up and hang up. It was awesome to watch and listen (via speaker) him at work. What is the saying - old age and cunning wins everytime ;D
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I wish the telcos would hurry up and turn on the call blocking feature they have in the US. You setup your contacts in the phone and if the caller's number isn't in your contact list then the call goes direct to voicemail or the bin.
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I wish the telcos would hurry up and turn on the call blocking feature they have in the US.
You setup your contacts in the phone and if the caller's number isn't in your contact list then the call goes direct to voicemail or the bin.
I really want that system - it would work ;D ;D
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My favourite way to answer the phone is "city morque you kill them and we chill them"
Don't get the scammers call, shame as i could do with the laugh
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We were getting a few a while back. These callers were the ones that would talk for 30 seconds before you could get a word in.
Decided to have some fun with the next one that called, so after they had finished their 30 second spiel, I politely asked them to hold the line, then switched on the stereo and put the phone down near the speaker. A couple of minutes later I came back, politely apologised for putting them on "hold", then asked them to repeat their 30 second spiel. At the end of that spiel, I said I was sorry but I would have to put them on hold again, and before they had time to respond the phone goes near the speaker again - this time for five minutes.
When I pick up the phone the second time, the caller is irrate and hangs up on me! I could have played this game all day and the wife was p*ssing her pants in the background! Whether coincidence or not, only had to play that game 1 or 2 more times before the annoying phone calls stopped.....
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I wish the telcos would hurry up and turn on the call blocking feature they have in the US. You setup your contacts in the phone and if the caller's number isn't in your contact list then the call goes direct to voicemail or the bin.
It work really well. I like the fact you can , as you say add a caller list and then any one not on it can be treated as you want. I set ours up to say
" You are not known by the caller. Please state you name and I check if they want to talk to you"
your phone then rings and announces the caller. If you want you can accept and if not p1ss them off. The you set up time tables so that late or when ever you can go to Voice Mail. The system can then call you back at say 8am and deliver your overnight messages.
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I don't want the phone to ring at all when I am at home.
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We had a call from another company, saying they don't sell anything but wanted to show us how we could save on tax.
They knew a few things about us.
My wife told me that 2 days before someone had called and asked questions and she gave very general answers, only confirming what they said.
So they get info out of you, then they try to sell things to you.
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Sure fire way to not get these calls is
- have an unlisted number
be careful what sweepstakes and other competitions you sign up for
have a
really good virus protection
I do occiasionally get the odd call, they are tremendous fun.
reminds me of the wrong number call that danny DiVito tool in ruthless people
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Sure fire way to not get these calls is
How does an unlisted number stop auto-dialers that call a range of numbers rather than just listed numbers?
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Basically it doesn't. I have 3 numbers at home only one of which is listed (2 physical, one virtual) and they all ring in numerical order usually about 20 mins apart. We get the first call, give them the runaround on it & don't answer the other two calls. Caller id usually shows "private" or "overseas" or sometimes an actual number but it's usually a voip number range if it is. Auto dialler calls usually have a blank time period after you answer & before it hands over to the agent, another giveaway.
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My daughter go caught 3 months ago with this scam and paid them $200 to "fix and reset" her computer as they talked her through the fix.
She called us while they had access to her comp. and we told her to disconnect it from the net immediately.
After that, she needed a new computer.
She reported it, but nothing could be done, so she wrote it off as a learning experience.
Now the second phase has started. They are calling her to say they made a mistake with the payment, and need her bank details, and computer access, and they will refund the original $200.
Apparently her level of trust has deteriorated. A bit of time wasting followed by abuse looks like it stopped them for a while.
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That is sad.
And we are wondering why everyone don't trust everyone anymore?
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I always say hi I have torrets.........................longest i had on the phone was 20 minutes until the abusive language gets to them.....
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I tell them i dont own a computer and they hang up :cup:
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The amount of people I know that have been caught by this, well it amazes me. A few friends have been and yet we've spoken about it many time. Just like the people who send emails telling you how viruses and Malware can be in the forwarded emails and they forward everything they get.
Unfortunately people will still believe these scumbags and people will still get ripped off.
Hmmm
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I know this thread is somewhat old - please move if not appropriate.
It appears that this continues - I have just had a call claiming to be from Telstra and threatening to cancel my internet access as my PC is completely corrupted. They offered to show me how to remove the offending files and asked me to go to the following webpages:
- VDNOIR.com
- Teamviewer.com
- showmypc.com
The reason there are three pages is that refused to go to the pages due to a warning of my anti-virussoftware. Then they tried a second one and a third one... he even got his supervisor to help... When I continued to refuse they threatened again to cancel my internet access with Telstra... Which does not concern me, as I do not have my internet with Telstra....
I have not accessed either of the sites above, but thought I'd post them as warning.
All up I managed to waste 25 min of his time... gee, I must be bored if I am getting entertainment out of this...
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teamviewer is ok if used correctly... but in this case it wouldn't have been...
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...... I have just had a call claiming to be from Telstra and threatening to cancel my internet access as my PC is completely corrupted. They offered to show me how to remove the offending files......
I had a similar call a while ago (we get a few).
I told him to cancel my internet access.
He hung up...
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I had one a few months ago.
I was glad they called, but despite my enthusiasm they were unable to fix my windows problem.
Turns out they can't help people running Windows For Workgroups 3.11 on a Wombat (Apple IIe clone)
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We had the Microsoft call a while before we left. We had been getting a few & were sick of them so my hubby decided it was game on.
Conversation went like this
Scam - "Hello this is such & such from Microsft there seems to be a problem with your computer".
Mat playing along - "oh really that sounds bad, can you help me with that"
Scam - "certainly sir can you please turn on your computer?"
Mat- "yes I am sitting here with it on, I really hope you can help" really no where near the computer
Scam - "can you please click on this file & open it for me?"
Mat - "yep I think I have found it, I am not really good with computers" again not true
Scam - "that's no problem sir I will assist you if required, can you tell me what the file says?"
Mat - "sure, it says F@ck off Indian scammers"
Scam - "excuse me sir?"
Mat - "it says F@ck off Indian scammers"
Scam - "the same to you, you rude Australian"
& hung up. We laughed for hours. We then devised rules for a game between us to see who could get them the best, but they never called back.
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They called a couple of nights ago and my six year old answered. This was what we heard:
Hello
Which computer?
My little one, my middle one or Mum's big one?
I know (looking at us DERRRR)
Which computer?
My little one, my middle one or Mum's big one?
Hello?
Hello?
Mum, they hung up!!
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should we start a competition? Who can keep them on the line the longest?
If we waste their time we might just save someone falling for it....
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l had 1 of our " Friends " on the phone & after stuffing him about with No l cant see that yet . l managed to not find anything he asked me about . Till l managed , after much coaxing & being led . Then an error message cane up on screen . EAT PORK CHOAK & DIE YOU { shell we say ) Non Anglo Australian Child of Unmarried Parents & he Hung up .
JOB DONE :cup: :cheers:
5 Mins later the phone rings & its Sh1thead back again enquiring if l was being abusive to him ,,,,,, so l filled him in in clear a concise Australian local Slang . l do believe the message was delivered & understand .
Hope he wasn't offended be what l suggested his Mother had done to deserve a son like that :angel: :angel: :cheers:
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I have had 2 calls in 2 days. first one was in the car and I kept him going for 45 minutes until I go t bored. THe second one I just launched a mouthful of vile sh#t at and got hung up on. It appears OZ is back on the target list.
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I usually get a lot of these calls, but lately we have started picking up the phone and saying nothing, If its a legitimate caller you get a confused "Hello" then you can talk, as for the scammers, after 5 seconds or so with no response they hang up, after a couple of weeks of this we don't get many calls from them at all. We used to get a lot, 4 or 5 calls a day for months, it was driving me nuts, I had already tried quite a few of the tricks that are mentioned here and others, it seems if I was abusive they rang more, all hours of the day and night, but the silent treatment seems to work, no calls for quite a while now. :cup:
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Yesterday l had a call from some bonehead trying to sell me Funereal Insurance . l Demanded he tell me the test results . The doctor wants to see me later but you are calling me now ,,What Are The Results . They must be Really Bad .
bonehead was gone & hasn't rung back >:D :cheers:
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We still get the odd call I just tell them I can't speak English and they normally hang up or go on about the cricket.
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I have had 2 calls in 2 days. first one was in the car and I kept him going for 45 minutes until I go t bored. THe second one I just launched a mouthful of vile sh#t at and got hung up on. It appears OZ is back on the target list.
45min - get effort !
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They got my wife a while back to the point she was off to the bank to transfer money to them,I explained it was a scam, so when he rang back to find out how the transfer was going I said I had warned if she was going to spend any more money on that old computer I would drown it, he said he could fix it, I said I have already fixed it by placing it in a big dish of water, job done, we haven't had any more calls since then. I wonder iff they put us on a register?
Regards Woody.
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They don't like it when you call them a thieving black ....
Can't understand why ???
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Geez I like it when they ring, gives me somebody to talk to ???? that doesn't judge me & is interested my problems
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