Plagued by scam callers? A helpful tip...

georgiesmum

I went down the " i haven't got a computer " after having several calls from them. It was " are you sure," yes pretty sure as i have never used one " Never had another phone call from them.
However my daughter got one and not having heard me mention anything about these calls thought it was genuine. She went on to her computer as asked, did all they told her to and at the end they, of course asked for money. Her reply,"sorry i haven't any money at all, just living from hand to mouth, just couldn't afford it "got the response " ok madame you have a nice day ". Her computer has worked perfectly since.
I suppose these people are only trying to make a living after all.

Swipe

georgiesmum wrote: »

I suppose these people are only trying to make a living after all.

What, by scamming old aged pensioners out of £190? This is what my 88 year old neighbour got scammed for a few months ago. I'd also be inclined to format and reinstall the operating system on that PC too. You've no idea what they might have installed. I just hope your daughter doesn't use it for internet banking.

AndyPot

I've had several of these over the last month, they must just get your phone number at random. I like to string them along, managed 33 minutes this morning, while I'm wasting their time they can't scam anyone else.

They spent 20 minutes today getting me to boot up my computer, checking various area's for files and error messages that they said were viruses or hackers files. I guess if you have no idea with PC's they would look very convincing. Eventually they got to the stage where they wanted to take remote control of my PC using support.me. They kept asking what I could see on the screen and when I told them it wasn't working they eventually asked if I was connected to the internet. "No", I told them "never do with this old PC always use my laptop." "You didn't say you wanted to connect to the internet."

So then we swap over to my laptop and delay them further. All the while I'm eating breakfast and not anywhere my PC.

Do your fellow Brits a favour and waste as much of their time as you can, when they ask you to turn on your PC say OK, hang on a minute then put the phone down for 5 minutes, do the same when you log on etc but whatever you do don't connect to their website!

I finally told them I had read all about their company in the newspapers and that there had been a lot about them on the news, they still wouldn't give up. Even when I told them I hadn't been anywhere near my PC this morning and was just trying to waste their time they still didn't get it!

Dave_C_2

As I've posted before: The telephone system from your home phone, through the network and to the phone at the other end is designed only to transmit sound at normal levels and within the frequency of human hearing. Any loud noise will be attenuated down to normal levels and dog whistles etc. won't work.

Indeed any approved telephone sold within the UK must protect against such acoustic shock. BT et al don't want want to face lawsuits from deafened customers.

By now you should have realised that blowing a whistle into a phone in the hope of deafening someone at the other end is a waste of time and only makes you look (well sound really) foolish.

Dave

Laz123

Dave_C wrote: »

As I've posted before: The telephone system from your home phone, through the network and to the phone at the other end is designed only to transmit sound at normal levels and within the frequency of human hearing. Any loud noise will be attenuated down to normal levels and dog whistles etc. won't work.

Indeed any approved telephone sold within the UK must protect against such acoustic shock. BT et al don't want want to face lawsuits from deafened customers.

By now you should have realised that blowing a whistle into a phone in the hope of deafening someone at the other end is a waste of time and only makes you look (well sound really) foolish.

Dave

We are all aware of the noise limiter on phones, but this method seems to work anyway. If a formula works don't change it.

Azari

Dave_C wrote: »

As I've posted before: The telephone system from your home phone, through the network and to the phone at the other end is designed only to transmit sound at normal levels and within the frequency of human hearing. Any loud noise will be attenuated down to normal levels and dog whistles etc. won't work.

Indeed any approved telephone sold within the UK must protect against such acoustic shock. BT et al don't want want to face lawsuits from deafened customers.

This may well be true but, in reality, even at normal levels, a blast from a whistle is not particularly pleasant. (And don't try using a dog whistle - the 'dog' part means that it generates frequencies that are above the level of normal human hearing and are way above those transmitted by the telephone system).

A whistle blast will be a little unpleasant, particularly to someone wearing a headset, but will do them no harm, so blast away if you wish.

symikins

lve a cuddley mouse on ski,s by the phone that yodel,s when you press his tummy.......:D

can you imagine the callers face !!!!!!! it cracks me up every time l hear it :rotfl::rotfl:

also if im feeling chatty l answer everything with :


5 past six
wheres my parcel
is the bus coming
are you my grandson/daughter?
thats a nice dress you have on
what did you have for dinner ?
no computer , will my microwave do

and on my black cloud days they get told to fluff off

lastly, you can always resort to playing vivaldi to them like the DWP [yawn]

Butterfly_Brain

Even the Guardian has reported on this
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/18/phone-scam-india-call-centres
There is a site that you can report these calls to:
http://www.actionfraud.org.uk/
They too are after these scammers
http://www.actionfraud.org.uk/bogus-microsoft-engineers-strike-again-nov11
You can also report them to the OFT here
https://secure.consumerdirect.gov.uk/reportascam.aspx

Butterfly_Brain

Tee Hee
I found this site ....Should confuse them..... It translates swear words into any language - Enjoy!
http://www.youswear.com/
You can confuse the hell out of them :rotfl::rotfl:

redpete

georgiesmum wrote: »

...Her computer has worked perfectly since.

and it worked perfectly before then as well.

I suppose these people are only trying to make a living after all.

So are scammers who do expensive roofing work for pensioners that doesn't need doing.