Scam calls - now have details

Muir · 14-08-2014 7:35pm #1

Just had one off those 'Microsoft' scam calls to the house phone. The guy got really abusive with me when I said I knew it was a scam. They knew the surname and address of the house and I'm wondering if anyone might know how they'd have that info? Happened to a family member of mine not long ago too who had told me that no one even had their house phone number. So anyone any ideas?

better call saul · 14-08-2014 7:36pm

Tell him to bring you home cooked Indian Dishes when he comes to visit

deelite · 14-08-2014 7:37pm

I wonder do we all have the same phone provider - we changed providers over two years ago (we're ex directory) and the calls began.

better call saul · 14-08-2014 7:37pm

In fairness, I had a fella call me a "mother***ing c**nt" when I led him on for twenty minutes only to tell him I was running Linux

better call saul · 14-08-2014 7:38pm

deelite wrote: »

I wonder do we all have the same phone provider - we changed providers over two years ago (we're ex directory) and the calls began.

They probably dial random numbers so being ex directory has nothing to do with it

hi_im_fil · 14-08-2014 7:38pm

Muir wrote: »

Just had one off those 'Microsoft' scam calls to the house phone. The guy got really abusive with me when I said I knew it was a scam. They knew the surname and address of the house and I'm wondering if anyone might know how they'd have that info? Happened to a family member of mine not long ago too who had told me that no one even had their house phone number. So anyone any ideas?

Eircom phonebook

http://www.eircomphonebook.ie/

srsly78 · 14-08-2014 7:39pm

And going ex-directory won't help you either! They ring my gaff asking for my father who is 10 years dead.

Haven't heard from them in a while now, the call blocker I got off amazon seems to be working. There are about 20 different numbers they call from so took a while to block them all.

wazky · 14-08-2014 7:40pm

I always tell them I don't have a computer, but I do have a broken microwave that I'd like them to take a look at.

kyote00 · 14-08-2014 7:54pm

I have a vuvuzela for calls like this....

Draw them in slowly. Complain that hd disk is making a clicking sound....but its hard to hear it ......then blast the vuvu down the line....

Muir · 14-08-2014 8:00pm

Number isn't listed and never has been. Same with my family member, she only had that number and address for a very short time and it isn't the same phone provider.

aqn29swlgbmiu4 · 14-08-2014 8:01pm

Yeah they have a multitude of phone numbers they call off, quite irritating.
Gave me oul fella an awful scare!

Nemeses · 14-08-2014 8:03pm

kyote00 wrote: »

I have a vuvuzela for calls like this....

Draw them in slowly. Complain that hd disk is making a clicking sound....but its hard to hear it ......then blast the vuvu down the line....

That....Is a brilliant Idea.

Now I just have to wait for the phonecall..

ScumLord · 14-08-2014 8:08pm

You probably entered a competition or gave your details to the wrong people. Enter any facebook competitions?

Muir · 14-08-2014 8:13pm

Not with the house phone number and I'd be pretty careful anyway.

Glock Lesnar · 14-08-2014 8:39pm

How do I sign up? I'm quite lonely

mikeym · 14-08-2014 8:43pm

I cant wait for these scammers to ring me

Tail Docker · 14-08-2014 8:44pm

They never ring me. I feel left out.

Chancer3001 · 14-08-2014 8:55pm

I'd love one of these calls.

biko · 14-08-2014 9:16pm

Speak back with an Nigerian accent:
"Yes, you can help me. But I need your bank account details first so I can transfer 1 million dollars to you".

Cantremember · 14-08-2014 9:18pm

srsly78 wrote: »

And going ex-directory won't help you either! They ring my gaff asking for my father who is 10 years dead.

Haven't heard from them in a while now, the call blocker I got off amazon seems to be working. There are about 20 different numbers they call from so took a while to block them all.

It was just Irish psychics live. They probably got a wrong number.

flutered · 14-08-2014 9:20pm

kyote00 wrote: »

I have a vuvuzela for calls like this....

Draw them in slowly. Complain that hd disk is making a clicking sound....but its hard to hear it ......then blast the vuvu down the line....

mines a rather sharp whistle, left from my daays as a referee.

monflat · 14-08-2014 9:24pm

flutered wrote: »

mines a rather sharp whistle, left from my daays as a referee.

Yes my parents get lots of calls from them allthe time.

My mother led one on one day. He was telling her she had a hard drive problem.

The only hard drive they d n aware of is the tarmac outside!
He got pissed off with her once he started asking for bank details and she told him she didn't have a computer.

Usually she ends the call telling them to hang on.tthere while she gets the credit card details.
Then hangs up

AlanS181824 · 14-08-2014 9:29pm

Never had a call like this before.

Where do I sign up?

Awful bored tonight.

takamichinoku · 14-08-2014 9:31pm

I got two or three of these calls the year I was back home at my parents, led them on for a bit out of boredom and loneliness more than anything else.

My dad used to always pretend he was a man working in the house for any calls like this, he used to get really into the whole role play element, would go into huge detail about the work he's doing on the electrics around the place.

If it weren't for the people actually getting scammed by these things, they'd be a fun little novelty to everyday life. I always answer really suspect looking numbers when they come in hoping for one of these.

Charlie19 · 18-08-2014 3:01pm

I got one of these calls but the Indian guy hung up when I told him that I pulled down my pants and flashed the Bios.

donegal__road · 18-08-2014 3:08pm

I had one of this crowd announce to me on the phone that the call was being recorded for 'Government security reasons'... I asked her was it the UK government, to which she replied 'yes it is sir'...

me: 'Im in the republic of Ireland..'

long silence

VickieVexed · 18-08-2014 3:25pm

I got one of these calls last week. I asked him if he was Nigerian royalty, at first he said no, then when I told him I would only talk if I could call him Your Highness, he admitted he was royalty. When he realised I knew it was a scam, he started talking in a sexual way, telling me what he'd like to do to me. Being a recovering Catholic, nothing shocks me, so I played along. It ended up like a conversation from a sex line (or so I'm told) and after I got bored and hung up, he phoned back three more times.
The worst thing is, there are people who are taken in by this scam.

Larbre34 · 18-08-2014 3:40pm

I am as serene as the Dalai Lama taking a long shyte thanks to the amount of stress I get rid of in swearing matches with those scammers. They are about the only people who ring our landline anymore, so I usually grab the phone and get comfy for a good 10 minute rant...

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 18-08-2014 4:06pm

Larbre34 wrote: »

I am as serene as the Dalai Lama taking a long shyte thanks to the amount of stress I get rid of in swearing matches with those scammers. They are about the only people who ring our landline anymore, so I usually grab the phone and get comfy for a good 10 minute rant...

How do you get them to stay on the line for a 10 minute rant. Once I start they just hang up!

Charlie19 · 18-08-2014 4:18pm

Larbre34 wrote: »

I am as serene as the Dalai Lama taking a long shyte thanks to the amount of stress I get rid of in swearing matches with those scammers. They are about the only people who ring our landline anymore, so I usually grab the phone and get comfy for a good 10 minute rant...

That was my initial intension to try and keep him on the phone for as long as possible, we had a slight misunderstanding about windows and the opening and closing, he was talking about Operating systems, I was talking about the broken one in our bathroom, very confusing altogether but as soon as I mentioned the Bios, he was gone.

Bafucin · 18-08-2014 4:33pm

If you have a no and a general area ring up some of the local takeaways. They always give out the address.

18-08-2014 4:43pm

I normally lead him on a big long trouble shooting rigmarole, Rebooting non existent computer and what not, then after twenty minutes tell him I don't have the Internet.

FloatingVoter · 18-08-2014 4:59pm

6541 wrote: »

I normally lead him on a big long trouble shooting rigmarole, Rebooting non existent computer and what not, then after twenty minutes tell him I don't have the Internet.

What do you mean...you don't have the internet. Well ...where did you put it. You can't just lose it down the pub. It was the car last week. The bloody dog went missing the week before. I mean you lose the internet today, whats next, the f%$king kids.

kupus · 18-08-2014 5:26pm

Getting these phone calls 2 times a week nearly at one stage sometimes twice in one day, afaik they pick a region and then blast it with phone calls,

I usually string them along for a bit about dodgy windows and it usually ends with them telling me to go and f meself and me telling them to go f one of the cows that hes perving over outside the window of his slum

ianobrien · 18-08-2014 5:41pm

I've never got one of those calls about Microsoft.

My usual responces for them type of calls are to shout "Mammy there is a strange man on the phone!" (I'm in my 30's BTW) or get them to hang on for a sec and play Barney singing down the line to them.

fleet_admiral · 18-08-2014 5:43pm

Got one about an hour ago on my mobile, told him I got new windows last month. he asked me which one and I said triple glaze. He had a mouth like a sailors parrot after that

bumper234 · 18-08-2014 5:51pm

Great site here

http://www.419eater.com/

Tells all about the latest scams and peoples stories on how they wind the scammers up.

markfinn · 18-08-2014 6:00pm

I just ask them if their mother knows what they're doing for a living.If they claim she does I explain to them that they have a really lousy mother.

No point insulting them individually, but pointing out that if their grandparents ever learned what scum they'd bred they'd no doubt kill themselves out of sheer disgust seems to get through to them more often than not.

circadian · 18-08-2014 6:08pm

Have a windows 7 VM ready for them to remote desktop onto. Wireshark it and send the evidence off to the relevant authorities.

There are also less than kosher ways to troll them....

Duff · 18-08-2014 6:11pm

kyote00 wrote: »

I have a vuvuzela for calls like this....

Draw them in slowly. Complain that hd disk is making a clicking sound....but its hard to hear it ......then blast the vuvu down the line....

Genuine lol.:D

Teyla Emmagan · 18-08-2014 6:15pm

I have never had a landline. Don't feel like I'm missing out on much going by this thread though

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 18-08-2014 6:23pm

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Got one about an hour ago on my mobile...

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

I have never had a landline. Don't feel like I'm missing out on much going by this thread though

You were saying...?

Landlines are not the only fruit to these guys.

circadian · 18-08-2014 6:45pm

I've been waiting for a call from these lads for ages.

dxhound2005 · 18-08-2014 7:43pm

A phone call scam been highlighted on BBC Radio Ulster's On Your Behalf consumer programme recently. Not so called PC Support but a scammer claiming to be from the bank or credit card company and they have some of the customers details. They say there has been suspicious activity on the account and they want to discuss the matter.

They invite the customer to hang up the phone and ring the phone number on the back of their credit card or look up their bank's fraud department number and ring that number. Where they say they will be waiting in person to receive the call. But in fact the scammer has used some technology to keep the line open and regardless of what number is dialled the person is still talking to the scammer. The scam mimics a dial tone and a ringing out tone on the phone.

One person lost something like £40,000 in the scam. Last Saturday's programme featured another person who had heard about that one and played the scammer along. They dialled their sister's phone number instead of the credit card phone number but of course that just put them back on to the scammer.

shruikan2553 · 18-08-2014 7:47pm

Never been called before. I would have great fun with them though.

Miss.Mayhem · 18-08-2014 7:56pm

Vodafone, Eircom, Meteor, Three, 02... they all sell your private information to marketing companies. They make hundreds of thousands from doing this each year.

circadian · 18-08-2014 7:56pm

Here's a long video but it's pretty funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j4pGJZV4jE

It descends into some weird desperation on behalf of the scammer.

kevc2 · 19-08-2014 8:04pm

I thought this was funny, suited here: http://www.break.com/video/scamming-the-phone-scammers-2748094

Nemeses · 20-08-2014 5:39pm

Miss.Mayhem wrote: »

Vodafone, Eircom, Meteor, Three, 02... they all sell your private information to marketing companies. They make hundreds of thousands from doing this each year.

Can you prove this?

Scam calls - now have details

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