The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

PasturesNew

Just had an amateur scammer on the phone.

Phone rang, picked it up - recorded message.

"This call is for YOU".
Yeah, but you don't know who picked the phone up.

... it whittered on then saying it was the HMRC and there was a serious court case against me ... and I must phone their number immediately to "avoid all legal consequence" and for the "resolvement of this serious case".

They then gave me the phone number to call immediately 02080770935 - which was what was on the screen ...

And, just in case you weren't sure if it were the HMRC their final words were "Goodbye and have a blessed day".

Yeah ... right.... that very British term... "have a blessed day".



If anybody fancies giving the phone number a ring .... go ahead. 02080770935

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

Just had an amateur scammer on the phone.

LOL.

The best amateur scammer I had was one of those who send out emails trying to persuade suckers to open a virus-laden document pertaining to an overdue bill. However, this one had obviously only just bought (or otherwise acquired) the scammer's toolkit because they hadn't quite got the hang of setting it up correctly.

The first email purported to be from Virgin Media, advising me that my British Gas payment was overdue !!!
They managed to follow that with one supposedly from British Gas advising me about, yep you've got it, my overdue Virgin Media payment !!!
:rotfl:

ukmaggie45

PasturesNew wrote: »

They then gave me the phone number to call immediately 02080770935 - which was what was on the screen ...

http://who-called.co.uk/Number/02080770935

OH got a couple of scam calls last week about his Santander account. Only problem is he doesn't have a Santander account. They gave him a number to call them back, but he didn't bother.

chris_m

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

OH got a couple of scam calls last week about his Santander account. Only problem is he doesn't have a Santander account.

Considering the number of accounts that I have, and the number of financial institutions they are with, I'm amazed that the scammers have, so far, only once managed to try it on pretending to be a financial institution with whom I do actually do any business

PasturesNew

There was a couple on RipOffBritain this morning - they run a cafe. She'd had a call "from her bank" and she had to transfer money into a new "safe account" they set up for her.... and she was so pleased she'd "saved" their money that she then went on and emptied all her/husband's other accounts.

Over £100k in total. His inheritance from his parents ... and his pension pot he'd cashed in and hadn't moved elsewhere yet.

You could see from their body language (from somebody that can't read body language) that although his lips were saying "I don't blame her...." he was fuming/seething - they'll NEVER get over that.

GDB2222

What makes a person execute an attack like the one in Las Vegas? He wounded/killed over 500 people, so he must have just kept on firing and reloading until stopped.

He was shooting from the 32nd floor. Perhaps from that height they don't look like people?

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

What makes a person execute an attack like the one in Las Vegas? He wounded/killed over 500 people, so he must have just kept on firing and reloading until stopped.

He was shooting from the 32nd floor. Perhaps from that height they don't look like people?

Cr4p life; unfulfilled; angry at something or somebody ... wanted to "go out in style" with a statement and ensure he was never forgotten.

Anger comes from many things ... resulting in the idea that "how dare you be happy, have that thing, be well, be living ..... when I am not"...

A feeling that somebody wronged you, or you were wronged by "the system", or people ... that starts the anger... and, at 64, whatever it was, maybe he felt "a life wasted ... and here I am ... soooo angry at that"

When there's no way forward - and you've "got nothing", or feel you've "lost everything" it's feasible to wish to take anything/everything/life from random others... it's all just misplaced anger issues.

His "bird" was in another country - maybe she'd just fleeced him and run off (she looked younger/foreign to me).....

We've all felt angry in the past; hurt, letdown, deeply hurt, like your whole life's just pointless and you're soooo unhappy ... and if you've no/few options going forward then it's easy to see how somebody brooding on it could get "angry at the world", without any particular focus/reason except "you all must die .... I'm so unhappy .... I just want everybody to die".

Never been like that? If not, you need to get some hurt in your life to understand how utterly, utterly, devastated some things and situations can make you feel. Alone and without a route forward, no ray of sunshine, nothing except a void of hopelessness and despair ahead of you.

Or is that just me then?

If I'd been the "nutter type" - because there must BE a type - I've probably had a number of occasions in my life when it would've been possible to choose the "ridiculous route". But I'm not "the type".

michaels

Note to all NP, if PN asks to borrow your assault rifles, just say no.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

Note to all NP, if PN asks to borrow your assault rifles, just say no.

Says the NP#1 stalker

That's probably "the type" .... stalker types. They're just weird.


So ... note to all NP ... don't lend them to michaels either!

michaels

Oops, I hadn't even realised I was a stalker. Why did no one tell me