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corktina

Personal best: had a scam call from Microsoft and kept them on the line for 7 minutes 6 seconds despite telling the guy I was having apple pie and custard for lunch

Peregrine

What was he having?

tin79

Is apple pie and custard offensive to scammers?

KeithM89

corktina wrote: »

...despite telling the guy I was having apple pie and custard for lunch

Whats for dinner, a tub of ben and jerrys?

corktina

"Is apple pie and custard offensive to scammers? "

probably seeing as eventually I told him I use an Apple Mac (which, actually, I don't....)

mathie

Keith wrote: »

Whats for dinner, a tub of ben and jerrys?

Keep it in the freezer or it'll go Microsoft.

corktina

yes!, can I use that next time?

theRB

Thinly veiled 'I got to have apple pie and custard for lunch' thread?

GorillaRising

You wasted 7minutes and 3 seconds of your life in my book.

MadsL

Pretty sure that wasn't Microsoft...

Hande hoche!

Missed opportunity for some phone sex or at least a chance to describe how sexy your ankles are.

corktina

MadsL wrote: »

Pretty sure that wasn't Microsoft...

you think?

Real Life

corktina wrote: »

"Is apple pie and custard offensive to scammers? "

probably seeing as eventually I told him I use an Apple Mac (which, actually, I don't....)

you're such a trickster

corktina

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Missed opportunity for some phone sex or at least a chance to describe how sexy your ankles are.

how you know? did I leave the web cam on again?

KeithM89

mathie wrote: »

Keep it in the freezer or it'll go Microsoft.

Thats it, shut the place down, we have a winner.

corktina

GorillaRising wrote: »

You wasted 7minutes and 3 seconds of your life in my book.

classic from someone spending their afternoon on After Hours instead of having Apple Pie

anncoates

Older posters will have felt a twinge of nostalgia at the ambiguous hit parade connotations of the title.

On opening the thread, however, it appears to be another interminable, self-congratulatory Spam/Scam yarn.

bonzodog2

So what was your previous record ?

Wossack

'ah! Ive been hoping you'd call, but can you hold please? I need to let my pet giraffe out'

put phone down, and walk away/enjoy apple pie elsewhere. Im not sure how long they stay, but damn, apple pie is good

Lapin

Given the day thats in it I thought the thread title was about a new type of spud.

I'm disappointed.

Staff Infection

Fair play, tis better you taking his time up so he can't scam those less clued in.

We had a door to door scammer call here once trying to get us in on a pyramid scheme and I broke his wee scammer heart by chatting about everything and anything except the pyramid scheme for as long as I could muster. Informed him that the neighborhood was a bit down as a local auld fella had passed away (he hadn't) who was a character and then started recalling stories about him. Every time he'd try go back to the scheme I'd go "ah if only he was alive, he'd love this investment thing, ah he was shrewd, sure once he has on the lash for three days straight and then.....".

He ended up just asking outright "look do you want in on this or not?" and then driving off in a tif when I said na

corktina

I remember my Nephew talking to a Double Glazing salesman on the phone and convincing him to give him a quote for a conservatory....he lived in a third floor flat...

Rented Mule

tin79 wrote: »

Is apple pie and custard offensive to scammers?

It's like kryptonite.

corktina

more like Kraptonite as it happened...

SEPT 23 1989

I get a lot of Indians on trying to sell me a website

MadsL

corktina wrote: »

I remember my Nephew talking to a Double Glazing salesman on the phone and convincing him to give him a quote for a conservatory....he lived in a third floor flat...

How dare he try and make a living. Nerve of some people.

Amirani

corktina wrote: »

I remember my Nephew talking to a Double Glazing salesman on the phone and convincing him to give him a quote for a conservatory....he lived in a third floor flat...

That's a pretty dickish thing to do.

Agricola

Aww I never get scam calls. Really love to give one of these guys the runabout some time!

corktina

NiallSparky wrote: »

That's a pretty dickish thing to do.

ya, but sniggerish too

Birneybau

corktina wrote: »

Personal best: had a scam call from Microsoft and kept them on the line for 7 minutes 6 seconds despite telling the guy I was having apple pie and custard for lunch

I farted once, on the set of "Blue Lagoon"

corktina

Birneybau wrote: »

I farted once, on the set of "Blue Lagoon"

that you Brooke?

Micky Dolenz

You do know the scam is keeping you on the phone as long as possible don't you?

Check your next bill, they use software to reverse the charges even when it appears they called you.

Someone somewhere is hi-5ing all right.

MadsL

corktina wrote: »

ya, but sniggerish too

Nope. Dickish, for sure.

corktina

unsolicited calls are illegal and a nuisance.

Rubeter

Agricola wrote: »

Aww I never get scam calls. Really love to give one of these guys the runabout some time!

Don't wish that, once you answer your number is marked as "valid" then the fun starts.

For about the last 2 months I've been getting a call almost daily, I fucked them out of it down the phone, blew whistles, left them hanging on and even asked nicely for them to stop. Did they? Nope.

Last week I got some advice from a friend as follows, I played along and just before I should have been at my computer I casually asked him for my IP address so I could ensure he was legit, he hung up immediately and I haven't had a call since. One to try for anyone who is on the verge of tearing their hair out over the bastards.

janiceross

LOL! The scammer must have been sorry he ever called. If he'd only used those minutes to calling someone else, he might have gotten money already.:P

mfceiling

corktina wrote: »

Personal best: had a scam call from Microsoft and kept them on the line for 7 minutes 6 seconds despite telling the guy I was having apple pie and custard for lunch

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mfceiling wrote: »

Had them on recently. Got them to "hold" while i went to look for my power lead, all the while letting them listen to jingle bells.

Then put the 7 year old on to them for a chat - how was their day, what is the weather like in india, do they wear pants etc.

After 50 minutes i apologised and told them my computer was actually a microwave and i was sorry for wasting their time.