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At last I had the scamming phonecall

penrhyn
penrhyn Posts: 15,215 Forumite
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Early this morning I was informed by an Indian gentleman that my computer has a trojan, I asked where they had got my number from and he replied it was the International.........?..I lost interest at that stage and bid him farewell.

FYI It was from the esteemed 02538020308 number.
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  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    penrhyn wrote: »
    Early this morning I was informed by an Indian gentleman that my computer has a trojan, I asked where they had got my number from and he replied it was the International.........?..I lost interest at that stage and bid him farewell.

    FYI It was from the esteemed 02538020308 number.


    I want one - I haven't had a bit of sport for a while.
    "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....

    "big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham
  • c_denise
    c_denise Posts: 40 Forumite
    We do have calls like these quite often. Virus ones my answer don't own a computer. PPI - I work for a bank but the next step would be i work for the FSA. Government grants ( a minute ago ) - not interested.

    But what really winds me up it that some bloke uses our number when applying for lending, hence the frequent calls from "financial" company looking for him. Sometimes it's up to 3 times a day. It's driving me up the wall. Had his calls since last year.

    We are registered with TPS - not working as well as we hope
    At least it's good to know that the phone is still in working order.
  • m5rcc
    m5rcc Posts: 1,544 Forumite
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    c_denise wrote: »
    We do have calls like these quite often. Virus ones my answer don't own a computer. PPI - I work for a bank but the next step would be i work for the FSA. Government grants ( a minute ago ) - not interested.

    But what really winds me up it that some bloke uses our number when applying for lending, hence the frequent calls from "financial" company looking for him. Sometimes it's up to 3 times a day. It's driving me up the wall. Had his calls since last year.

    We are registered with TPS - not working as well as we hope
    At least it's good to know that the phone is still in working order.

    Get a home phone that blocks these calls. I have and don't get such nuisance calls.
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