Phone Call Scams all week!

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The whole week?

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A few weeks ago, my other half answered the phone at his parents house. The lovely lady caller informed him that they had been notified that he had a problem with his laptop. "Oh dear, oh dear" he said "What do I do?" She asked if he was near his computer and he said yes, it was on his lap. Ok, she said log on to this site and do such and such. Ok, sez he and taps a few keys and said "Nothing's happened" "The problem's still there" she said, "Try this" and gave him another load of letters and numbers to key in. He pretended to do this and again said, nothing's happened. They did this twice more, she being very polite and he being all doddery. After 4 go's, she repeated that there was still a problem to which he replied "Maybe the problem is with your computer, as mine seems ok" There was a pause and she said "Go F**k yourself" and hung up!

Havent tried that one before would love to give it a god but pretty sure theyve finally taken my number off the list due to the **** i gave them

shoud have baited them,kept it going for as long as possible,ask them to phone back and transfer to email etc.
look into 411 scam baiting,as its great fun-baiters do it over the phone or internet.
have been doing it for a while via email,to waste their time and bring them 'off script' a favourite tip of mine is asking the scammers from nigeria what their opinion is on homosexuality and satanism,actualy had a pretty cool convo with one on religeon until he got bored and wanted to know what bank was using, told him it was the bank of cophraphagia [copraphagia is the term for eating faeces],he fell for it without bothering to search,then he had a tantrum over the time it was taking so sent him an 'apology form' to make him fill in,the fecker didnt bother alas.

it might sound silly to us of their scams but people still fall for them because theyre usualy blinded by desperate situations or greed,some scammers that have been baited have made tons of cash,it is great watching them get totaly mocked to sht online; its like the modern version of the medieval stocks,its also great when a baiter gets them arrested and has all the evidence to show police,have managed to get a fake bank shut down not that long ago.

info on scam baiting- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scam_baiting

I keep getting them too especially today thought it was just a v day hoax but no say it someone else entirely silly machine just ringing when it feels like it. That number has rang before looked online and it most likely a scam with that phone number. Tried locating where it is based and doesn't really make sense where its located somewhere in temple bar.

Often got stupid texts too like that saying you won something from a US number madness like. Like I believe that I have.

OP your so lucky. They never ever ring me because I'm only dying to use the Taken quote "I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for bank details I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you hang up now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you"

I had a fairly sophisticated one attempted on me recently.

Basically a guy calls up claiming to be from the Met fraud department (I live in London), and that my card has been used to make several purchases in the Apple Store on Regen't Street.

Straight away this raised alarm bells, I told him I didn't believe him and asked why wouldn't my bank be calling me regarding card fraud.
He stayed calm, attempted to explain himself and then suggested I call my bank to confirm his identity.
So I hung up the phone and rang my bank to check my card was secure...

Bank answers, I start talking but then realize the normal procedures aren't being followed. They confirm fraud and transfer me back to the Met fraud dept.

At this point they've done well, they managed to catch me off guard by somehow holding my phone line open so they could pick up my outbound call and pose as my bank (speaking to the actual police afterwards, they don't know how they do this bit).

The only point at which the scam become laughable is where they declare that in order to protect my cards, they're going to send a courier out to collect them and that they need my pin numbers....

When I heard that I told him it wasn't happening and asked him to stay on the line while I rang my bank again off of my mobile. He hung up straight away.

No harm done in my case, didn't get any usable information, but apparently it has caught out a lot of elderly folks.

But whatever these scammers are thinking, it helps that we have consumer complaint sites such as http://www.callercenter.com where we can get daily updates on how the latest scams are perpetrated. We are made aware and able to avoid becoming a victim to it.