I had my first support call scam today !

Fightsback

I've always wanted one of these to call me and it actually happened today with a muppet in thick Mumbai accent saying there was a problem with my router. I did enjoy stringing the idiot along eventually he asked me what OS I was using after I was pretended to be thick and not able to find things.

Opensuse 13.2 .......clunk.

What are other folks experiences ?

Browntoa

Had a " it's about your accident" one the other day , told him the line was bad and had him shouting down the phone at me before he twigged and cut me off

nickcc

Wish all the recorded PPI reclaim calls would stop, takes all the fun out of winding up the caller.

GunJack

Fightsback wrote: »

I've always wanted one of these to call me and it actually happened today with a muppet in thick Mumbai accent saying there was a problem with my router. I did enjoy stringing the idiot along eventually he asked me what OS I was using after I was pretended to be thick and not able to find things.

Opensuse 13.2 .......clunk.

What are other folks experiences ?

We had a thread on here a while back, tried to keep them on the phone for as long as possible - there were some quite impressive results posted :rotfl:

They don't like being strung along, do they ??

EssexExile

If anyone knows Jamie Murray can you ask him to pay off his car loan, I'm fed up with the calls from the debt collectors.

J_B

GunJack wrote: »

We had a thread on here a while back, tried to keep them on the phone for as long as possible - there were some quite impressive results posted :rotfl:

I managed over an hour onve

GunJack wrote: »

They don't like being strung along, do they ??

He ended up calling me a mother-sucker ... well, I think that's what it sounded like

enfield_freddy

when they ring from india , I put on my best Bangladeshis accent, and tell them what I think of india ,


mother sucker is one of my mild insults

grumpycrab

A good call blocker (call gaurdian/true call) possibly? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121480349717

Has anybody reverse-hacked these support call scams. That would be impressive.

enfield_freddy

why use windows+d , if using classic shell? , clicking on the extreme right of your lower toolbar (next to vol and network) takes you to desktop without using two fingers on a keyboard

grumpycrab

^ yer OK; I guess lots of ways of doing the same thing is a good thing;)

enfield_freddy

ok , had me checking that one out ,