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IT Phone Scammer rings an IT department by accident!

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  • Nice one. Ignore the prats.

    Next time though try and trace the !!!!!!!.
    “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
    ― Groucho Marx
  • Grandmama
    Grandmama Posts: 150 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Name Dropper
    I am not a PC buff but I really enjoyed the Video. Had a good laugh. I will not get so stressed if I get one of these calls again, may even try having a bit of fun myself. Thanks
  • LouLou
    LouLou Posts: 2,135 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Re telesales/cold callers, I always show people this link: http://www.b3ta.com/questions/trolls/post1212378

    "You'll have to speak more slowly, I'm naked" is my favourite one :)
  • warehouse
    warehouse Posts: 3,362 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    sillygoose wrote: »
    Your attitude in your posts comes across as atrocious, hostile, aggressive and condescending. I would rather talk to the Indian scammer than your IT dept. At least the scammer knows a bit about manners!

    Feel free to flame me, you will be talking to yourself though.

    Bingo, nail on the head. I feel sorry for the thousands of people you support. I bet your phone is quiet.
    Pants
  • HarryL
    HarryL Posts: 49 Forumite
    Your both wrong. Anyone working in IT long enough would know that sometimes Anti virus's and internet firewalls mistakenly believe things to be harmful when they are not. This should have been resolved in 2 posts if you both had the experience you say you have, not 50.
  • Firetastic
    Firetastic Posts: 596 Forumite
    Got this at the CAB last week. Told them they were a scam and I was going to call the Police. Put it on loudspeaker for the rest of the advisors to hear. He then said f off and hung up.
  • Loopz
    Loopz Posts: 39 Forumite
    HarryL wrote: »
    Your both wrong. Anyone working in IT long enough would know that sometimes Anti virus's and internet firewalls mistakenly believe things to be harmful when they are not. This should have been resolved in 2 posts if you both had the experience you say you have, not 50.

    misreporting

    false positives

    did you not read these ?
  • Loopz
    Loopz Posts: 39 Forumite
    warehouse wrote: »
    Bingo, nail on the head. I feel sorry for the thousands of people you support. I bet your phone is quiet.

    If only you was right :p
  • Loopz
    Loopz Posts: 39 Forumite
    Nice one. Ignore the prats.

    Next time though try and trace the !!!!!!!.

    thanks and the problem with me, is that the prats are my entertainment :)

    yeah, we have a new tele system going in soon where we will be able to do some good form of tracing. As much as we can from our end anyway.
  • My Bullguard did not report any virus.

    Unfortunately, I have prepaid mobile BB and this sort of thing eats my allowance, so I will need to watch the video somewhere else.
    Who having known the diamond will concern himself with glass?

    Rudyard Kipling


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