Unwanted phishing 'phone calls following insurance claim.

LandyAndy

GunJack wrote: »

Been doing this with the Windows/BT/TT/whoever techie muppets for several years...if you've got the time it's a giggle

My 83 year old mother can string these 'your computer is infected' muppets along for ages before revealing that she doesn't own a computer.

Senseicads

i actually quite like calling them liars. they phone up saying that the insurance companies put a set of money aside for my discomfort! you can't claim for that but it don't stop them. I spent over a decade as a personal injury claims handler so I know exactly what I'm talking about and I manage to confuse them all greatly. I have had referrals to up to 4 supervisors before now. There is one company in Liverpool that keeps contacting me, at least once per week. I do have great fun with it.

uknick

Welcome to the club artfuldodger.

I "joined" a few years after an accident damaging my rear bumper. They'd ask if I've got any injury.

I'd say I've a bad back. They get very interested and ask if they can help.

I then explain the accident happened in a premium car brand dealer's car park and I'd love to be able to make a claim.

Again, they are very interested.

So I ask them, as they're the experts, what advice they can give me for suing the 3 foot tall bollard I reversed into. :rotfl:

Funny enough, the line goes dead after that.


PS: I've had the bad back for many years, it's not my fault they assumed it was from the accident.

facade

Keeping a sub-minimum wage slave worker on the 'phone is not going to affect their employer much I'm afraid, although it stops that particular one phoning anyone else in the time.

Turn_to_Grey

"Married Lancashire police officers sold road crash data." Now we know who sold it !



http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-41531324

Gloomendoom

I get these blasted phone calls and I can't remember when I last had a motor accident claim. It was probably in the mid 90's. I got called a couple of days ago and despite telling the ärsehole on the phone that I was killed in the accident, she still carried on.

trailingspouse

I used to get a lot of these, but then about 18 months ago I did actually have an actual accident. Haven't had a call since, until about 2 weeks ago!!

My Mum gets them regularly. One particularly disturbing one was where they called and said that a member of her family had been in an accident - we were actually en route to visit her that day, she was in a bit of a state by the time we got there. She knows it's a scam - but...