Indian Landline Scammers

Biodegradable

You know the way it's always Indians who are trying to scam people from landlines? This has made me wonder, did you ever end up in a situation where
you thought someone was trying to scam you just because they were Indian, and taking a long time to get to the point?

Got a call at 8 am this morning from "Visa Control" or something like that. It was an automated British lady's voice. It said press one" is you suspect your credit card has been used. And it was this automated voice service that made me suspect that maybe this was genuine. I then got on to some Indian who was saying someone is trying to make a transaction for €600 from your card. He deflected from the question of "who are you looking to speak with?" and instead wanted to directed me to do a google search for "supremo". When he put me on to his supervisor (also Indian) I was told that someone is trying to hack into out internet line in the UK. Anyone else get this?

KaneToad

Biodegradable wrote: »

You know the way it's always Indians who are trying to scam people from landlines? This has made me wonder, did you ever end up in a situation where
you thought someone was trying to scam you just because they were Indian, and taking a long time to get to the point?

Got a call at 8 am this morning from "Visa Control" or something like that. It was an automated British lady's voice. It said press one" is you suspect your credit card has been used. And it was this automated voice service that made me suspect that maybe this was genuine. I then got on to some Indian who was saying someone is trying to make a transaction for €600 from your card. He deflected from the question of "who are you looking to speak with?" and instead wanted to directed me to do a google search for "supremo". When he put me on to his supervisor (also Indian) I was told that someone is trying to hack into out internet line in the UK. Anyone else get this?

I have received 6 (six!) calls from this crowd over the past few days. I shoot the $hit with them, if I have the time. They all have what, to my ears, appears to be an Indian accent. They claim to be in Grand Canal Dock. They are very keen for you to log onto a website to secure your card. There is a room full of them- you can hear plenty of chatter in the background.

Lucy8080

This automated scam is the new one knocking around. It sounds like an authentic call, i.e., a press one /two etc from a genuine source that will call back. No foreign voices involved.

NHS/Bank calls in the U.K. sound very similar to this message.

anewme

Even the Windows one now is automated. Press 1 for an Engineer and so on.

Reminds me of the time my Dad got the windows call “some fordener ringinging about the windows. Told him to fck off, sure didn’t the Council replace the windows last year”

Atlantic Dawn

Automation is even putting scammers out of work, sad times.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Ask them are they Comanche or Sioux.

Usually stops them in their tracks.

NewbridgeIR

The was a good debate on Reddit (I think) re scammers like this. The discussion whether or not is it acceptable say racist things to them. Trying to find it now but the consensus was yes.

is_that_so

There's a UK number I've recently received calls from, followed by a swift text message about a missed call. No idea what it is but blocked it.

branie2

Best thing to do is put the phone down when the scammers ring

is_that_so

Just had one this minute - Technical department of Eir and my internet! I thanked him for his call.:)

the beer revolu

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

The was a good debate on Reddit (I think) re scammers like this. The discussion whether or not is it acceptable say racist things to them. Trying to find it now but the consensus was yes.

I'd your default way of getting at someone you have a problem with is to be racist, then you, quite simply, are racist.

Racist is racist. Doesn't matter what the situation is, if you resort to racism, you are a racist.

Edgware

It is an Indian scam. Thats why I always leave my financial transaction to the major Nigerian banks

JCX BXC

Same thing at 8am this morning to the landline. Work the entire house up.

Cnuts.

daheff

JCX BXC wrote: »

Same thing at 8am this morning to the landline. Work the entire house up.

Cnuts.

their clocks didnt change..... they thought it was 9am

chrissb8

In the UK it's always a call about a possible car accident I was in. I always tell them I don't drive a car and I use public transport most of the time. They seem stuck for words at this and I mean how niche is that. No effort 1/10. Think next time I'll play along.

biko

Say that China has more rights to Kashmir Jammu than either Pakistan or India.
That will set them off.

Oasis1974

I got a call from these guys with the your Microsoft Windows has been hacked line. This was a direct call from an Indian guy and I let rip at him racist slurs included at the end he was shouting back at me telling me to shut up before I put the phone down. These ***** deserve it just heartless rip-off merchants some funny YouTube videos of these guys trying to set up remote access to your PC and getting hacked themselves.

the beer revolu

Oasis1974 wrote: »

This was a direct call from an Indian guy and I let rip at him racist slurs included .

Refreshing to hear a racist admit that they are racist. Well done.

chrissb8

chrissb8 wrote: »

In the UK it's always a call about a possible car accident I was in. I always tell them I don't drive a car and I use public transport most of the time. They seem stuck for words at this and I mean how niche is that. No effort 1/10. Think next time I'll play along.

We should start a game. See who can keep them talking the longest!

JCX BXC

the beer revolu wrote: »

Refreshing to hear a racist admit that they are racist. Well done.

Give it a rest my god.

antodeco

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We should start a game. See who can keep them talking the longest!

I got 15 minutes out of them 1 time. Was stuck in traffic and nothing better to do. Trying to sell me shares. They got annoyed when I told them I'd have to pass to a parent when they wanted credit card details as I was "under 18"

daheff

talk to them only in Irish.... or with a thick cork/kerry accent .... it'll confuse the **** outta them

Gynoid

[Deleted User] wrote: »

We should start a game. See who can keep them talking the longest!

That game is already won, Im afraid . A few years ago an Indian fellow phoned the house, I cannot remember what was his initial spiel, and I deflected him. Immediately he began to tell me about his life, personal struggles, work dilemmas etc. At first I was just naturally sympathetic and polite, thinking I can afford the guy my ear for a minute, but then it went on too long for me to hang up on him. He poured his heart out to me, there was almost no break for me to say lets stop this now, and I felt too sorry for him just to put down the phone. It was over an hour later when my husband said Ah here! and took the phone from me and told him to fcuk off.
Now I just immediately say loudly, Sorry, the pot is boiling over !!! and hang up

antodeco

antodeco wrote: »

I got 15 minutes out of them 1 time. Was stuck in traffic and nothing better to do. Trying to sell me shares. They got annoyed when I told them I'd have to pass to a parent when they wanted credit card details as I was "under 18"

My OH got a nice English girl once. After pretending to turn on the computer and keying in whatever she told him, she was trying her best to convince him that he’d gotten a virus, he said “maybe it’s YOU who have a virus “ she told him to go f**k himself and hung up!

the beer revolu

JCX BXC wrote: »

Give it a rest my god.

Do explain how a racist slur isn't racist. I'm all ears.

RebelButtMunch

Best one I heard was to speak very softly so they listen very carefully... then whistle extremely loud down the phone

Sky King

An indian-sounding guy called my workplace recently with a legitimate call. Had to ring back twice because people kept hanging up on him. The poor guy - it must happen to him all the time.

A dodgy minority of his fellow countrymen are ruining telephone calls in Ireland for the rest of them.

pgj2015

iv had what sound like Irish people ringing me lately with different scams, people pretending to be from bank of ireland, an insurance company etc. its sad to think our own fellow Irish people are at these low life scams now.

DrPhilG

I've never had one to the landline.

I get the "I've been informed that you were involved in a car accident that wasn't your fault" constantly.

I don't take them on, just ask who informed them of this and they soon look for an excuse to hang up.

Hector Savage

Speaking of scams, I got one of those "We hacked your webcam and now have a video of you ****" emails, I sometimes check the BTC to see if anyone pays, most of the time it's 0.00, but today I noticed it had 0.1 BTC on it - around €800.

Some sucker paid, really really pisses me off when I see that the c*nts are getting money!

Lemming

I've had all sorts of scam calls here in the UK; most phone calls sound like the caller is ethnic Asian of description, a couple of African-sounding callers, and a few european. Everything from car crashes, to a computer virus alert and/or on behalf of "my service provider 'Virgin BT'" (think about that one for a second ...) to the latest combining an automated computer-generated voice mail about tax fraud (and how if I hang up a warrant will immediately be issued) that then directed to ,..... an ethnic Asian sounding "helpdesk" person.

Occasionally I like to mess with them just to string them along, but mostly I just report the number as life is far too short to entertain such parasites.

razorblunt

RebelButtMunch wrote: »

Best one I heard was to speak very softly so they listen very carefully... then whistle extremely loud down the phone

Alas, the whistle loudness doesn't carry across for them.

Biodegradable

Hector Savage wrote: »

Speaking of scams, I got one of those "We hacked your webcam and now have a video of you ****" emails, I sometimes check the BTC to see if anyone pays, most of the time it's 0.00, but today I noticed it had 0.1 BTC on it - around €800.

Some sucker paid, really really pisses me off when I see that the c*nts are getting money!

What does BTC mean?

Biodegradable

Lemming wrote: »

but mostly I just report the number as life is far too short to entertain such parasites.

Maybe I should do that! How do you do it?

daheff

Biodegradable wrote: »

What does BTC mean?

bitcoin

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Biodegradable wrote: »

Maybe I should do that! How do you do it?

You don't. They use fake numbers and all sorts of proxies here.

I like to string them along, if I've time to spare. They get very pee'd off after more than twenty minutes, when they cop on. They have a great repertoire of curse words.

Comhrá

I had a Filipino woman trying her scam on me a few years ago and after a while I sussed her.

She laughed and I laughed, and then I asked her if it was her mother and father who taught her to be a criminal and she got seriously angry and threatened to send her friends after me. Even the meanest of them have a nerve that hurts if you can find it.

This is the same 'lady' on YouTube trying it on with someone:

I was getting the Microsoft call repeatedly. I always listened to their spiel and asked them to tell me more as I worked for Microsoft. There was always a long pause and then they hung up.

Nicetrustedcup

Years back got a call from them and took the piss out of them.

They where selling a website and where mad for my card number before we talked about the site.

So I called my myself John Johnson and I was the manager but I had to get my boss Jeff jefferson.

So I transfered the call to Jeff aka me. Told them I was a sex shop and would he be intrasted in trying a dildo as we need a website and I won't to send him one as a sample. He said no. I asked did you ever try one? He went no. I told him it was amazing thing to use.

So I was like you need my card number told him it was in my business name. So I spelled it out for him. I then asked him to read it back. He said I won't to see you pee Sr. I reply going your a dirty dirty man wonting to see me pee and I hung up.

CelticRambler

Deleted User wrote: »

We should start a game. See who can keep them talking the longest!

I'd have ye all beat! Went through a phase of having nothing better to do than keep them talking ("them" being everyone from the peddlers of solar panels to the Microsoft Support crowd). In due course I figured out that they must have been given instructions never to hang up first, as they'd get increasingly desperate for me to either accept whatever they were asking or have me just get off the line. They mostly topped out at around 25-30 minutes.

My go-to line for the "your computer has a virus" is to tell them I use a ZX Spectrum and ask which cassette I need to put in the tape player to load the code ... :pac:

the beer revolu

I recommend trying this.
Interrupt their spiel by saying -" I think I can save us both some time here."
"Will I just give you my credit card details now?"

This will be met with, "yes sir/madam , please, sir/madam."

You can go any direction from here.
I did it once, I was told to **** off and was hung up on!

This was the best wind up I've had with them. Sometimes I act really dumb (comes easily) but they get bored and hang up pretty quickly.
The reaction when they think you are going to give cc details is priceless!

Pinch Flat

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Ask them are they Comanche or Sioux.

Usually stops them in their tracks.

Got into a whole discussion with one about curry one time. Never realised there was such a variety there. He stayed with me for a while then got pissed off and hung up. Had a mad hankering for a curry after that.

Prominent_Dawg

Had no this morning of this number 00949024352

nthclare

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Ask them are they Comanche or Sioux.

Usually stops them in their tracks.

Brilliant

Turquoise Hexagon Sun

This guy is genius at staying in character while wasting these scammer's time. Brilliant.

Cee-Jay-Cee

I had one recently about my Windows. I asked where he was calling from and where were his offices, he told me main street, Sandyford. I asked where abouts on Main street as I live on main street and he hung up.