Microsoft scam still going

Just had a lovely 7.30am wake up call from these guys this fine Saturday morning :-(

crazygeryy wrote: »

I wish that link worked. Ill be ****ed if I'm typing in all that.

Well you could just click the link in post#7 of this thread for the story!:rolleyes:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=92183655&postcount=7

I had a call this morning. Funny we were only saying last night we hadn't had one in ages - a few missed calls from the same number - but if they'll get someone here it's always around 9 on a Saturday morming .

Usually I pretend I've ordered a curry or something and pretend it's the local takeaway ringing to check my address, usually ask the caller on an opinion on curry before he hung up previously.

This morning I had John from Microsoft ring me. They should really pick names that are easier to pronounce - the letter j can be difficult for a lot of non native English speakers. So he was pronouncing it Chon. So I pretended I hadn't understood his name - feigned total ignorance. We got through about three or four words that begin with J - Jamaica, joke ("you know like the joker in batman sir" - you numpty, the jokes on you). Got through all for letters in his name all the way to the end then said "oh I've got it - Joan". He said yeah whatever sir and kept going. That took about 5 minutes of me trying to keep my composure before we moved on to the business end.

He says he's ringing from Microsoft in sandyford dublin 18 (top marks for the research). I pretend I've never heard of them but say I have a computer. I go along with it for another few minutes then say "wait, Microsoft - I think I have it - can you spell this for me". At that point john hung up.

I have a house phone but my 19 month old loves to pick it up and have an aul natter on it, she broke the ringer on it recently bashing it off the table so if someone rings I can't hear it, only the light flashes.

Yesterday she was doing her usual and having a gobbildy gook conversation to imaginary nanna plus her six words "No, Minnie, Elsa, Mamma, Dadda and rawr" when I noticed she was adding in a "Yeah" every so often, which is new. So, this went on for a good fifteen minutes and I had her breakfast ready so I went and got her, she said "bye bye" and I put her in her high chair, the usual.

Went back to put the phone on the receiver and heard someone on the other end calling, ****e she must have pressed speed dial I think, so I say "hello" and this dude introduces himself as "Joe from Windows and he was talking to Elsa about the problem with her computer, could I put her back on the phone" Herself must have picked up the phone at the same time this eedjit was ringing.

I took great pleasure in explaining to him that he had just wasted his time trying to scam a baby for the past twenty minutes but that he was a great babysitter who did an amazing job of keeping my baby occupied while I was doing the wash up and preparing breakfast. I asked if he could call again tomorrow so I could do the hoovering, haha.
Judging by his response he was less than impressed.

Can Microsoft not do anything about it seeing as these gangsters are claiming to be from there?

Had them once or twice.
I just pretend to be deaf.
At one point they give up after having screamed their lungs out.

Some good YouTube videos of people catching them out. Some set up virtual PCs and one even managed to track down the scammer's IP address.