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Computer repair scam phone calls

kmurph · 2012-03-02 00:16:11

Hi We've been receiving these scam calls from a company wanting to repair our computer. Usual thing that lots of people have been getting recently. Has anyone found a way of stopping them or combatting them in some way? I know because the calls are coming from India that they're beyond the reach of Comreg and our phone…

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02-03-2012 1:16am

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kmurph

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Hi

We've been receiving these scam calls from a company wanting to repair our computer. Usual thing that lots of people have been getting recently.

Has anyone found a way of stopping them or combatting them in some way? I know because the calls are coming from India that they're beyond the reach of Comreg and our phone provider (Vodafone) but has anyone come up with ideas?

We got 2 today and get at least 1 every other day at the moment.

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#2 02-03-2012 1:24am
Arciphel

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Tell them you have a Mac. Worked for me!

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#3 02-03-2012 2:57am
MOH

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Yeah, I just got another one this morning.
Depending on the mood I'm in, I'll either hang up straight away, give them some abuse and then hang up, or string them along for a while to waste their time before hanging up. Asking where they got my number from usually prompts them to hang up, and if you're obviously winding them up they usually hang up pretty quickly too.

It's bloody irritating though.

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#4 06-03-2012 5:12pm
BostonB

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No they keep ringing. I've cancel the eircom line now, so it stopped then.

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#5 07-03-2012 12:00am
KoolKid

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Search them on you tube. Some good lads there great at wasting their time.

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#6 09-03-2012 4:32pm
Squeeonline

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Had one of these calls to my landline and they were claiming to be from Microsoft and they had detected an error with my windows machine. I was so angry with them as they had scammed my 80 year old grandad out of a couple hundred euro that I didn't even have it in me to lead them along.

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#7 09-03-2012 4:35pm
tricky D

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Mega thread already here: Weird phone call! "online pc doctor" - Only thread on these scam calls please

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