Microsoft Technician phone call

JJ_Egan

TPS has no control over foreign fraudsters. These people are Indians calling from a call centre in India.

Should be easy to find not many Rogers in India or maybe there are .

jje

prowla

Apples2 wrote: »

Unfortunately the TPS is worse than useless against johnny foreigners ringing you, these scammers don't give a hoot about UK law.

All the scammers know or care about, is that there are thousands and thousands of UK people thinking someone is looking after them.

Chris357 wrote: »

TPS has no control over foreign fraudsters. These people are Indians calling from a call centre in India.

JJ_Egan wrote: »

TPS has no control over foreign fraudsters. These people are Indians calling from a call centre in India.

Should be easy to find not many Rogers in India or maybe there are .

jje

I know - I just say it with an indignant authority to my voice, and rely on their ignorance to let it fluster them.

Raksha

I had one of these a couple of weeks ago - I asked her to hang on while I got my husband, as he was a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and he would know what she was talking about... when he got to the phone, she was gone :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

katecheshire

I rang the number back - it was a UK number - asked for their address, which the woman gave me, it was in Bristol. Bit of research to find out the contact details of Avon & Somerset Police.
Then did a really evil probably illegal but very enjoyable thing . . .

Hallo, this is Detective Sergeant X from Avon and Somerset police. We have had some complaints about telephone calls from this number. I would like to send one of my officers to your office on Monday to clarify things. Who should they ask for?
Pauli Wilson (!?!)
bit more blah blah . . .if you have any concerns about this call, you can contact ... the real ASP number . . .. So one of my officers will visit you on Monday
So you are the police. Oh my God!! I can't believe it, you speak to me so nicely . .
Thank you, blah blah. We'll see you on Monday.
Oh my God!

If I could have been bothered I would done another call on Monday about how the office was just a front address and we would have to trace the phone number.:rotfl:

Enterprise_1701C

I actually got one of these to hang up on my today!!

Thought I'd have a little bit of fun, so when they said they could see a problem with my computer I asked if it was a virus. They said (rather eagerly!) yes, so I then said "oh rats, I thought the virus I was developing was in the sandbox, I will have to hide it better before I can further develop it! They promptly hung up before I could have any more fun! Rather disappointing, was looking forward to the rest of the conversation!