Indian Landline Scammers

razorblunt · 28-10-2019 02:30PM

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 · 28-10-2019 02:43PM

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 · 28-10-2019 02:46PM

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 · 28-10-2019 06:45PM

Biodegradable wrote: »

What does BTC mean?

bitcoin

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 28-10-2019 07:10PM

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 · 28-10-2019 08:08PM

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:

28-10-2019 08:21PM

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 · 28-10-2019 08:29PM

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 · 28-10-2019 09:05PM

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 · 29-10-2019 12:52PM

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 · 29-10-2019 12:54PM

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 · 29-10-2019 01:28PM

Had no this morning of this number 00949024352

nthclare · 29-10-2019 01:29PM

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Ask them are they Comanche or Sioux.

Usually stops them in their tracks.

Brilliant

Turquoise Hexagon Sun · 29-10-2019 04:12PM

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

Cee-Jay-Cee · 29-10-2019 04:21PM

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.

Indian Landline Scammers

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