somewhatdamaged 76 Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 Calling from Microsoft after contact from Manx Telecom (allegedly!) Well managed to keep him on the line for thirty minutes pretending to be an absolutely thick dumb fuck who's more incompetent than Frank Spencer! Listened to them waffle on for a while and eventually he tried to get me to log onto a Logmein remote access page to give him access. Infuriated him by messing him around and saying i was having problems etc He then asked me for the names of the local IT companies i use so gave him a few beauties including Mega Computers, Super Duper Computers, and Sweaty IT Services, all of which he was very happy to take down (so no doubt someone else may hear these mentioned!) He then passed me onto the "Legal Department" who proceeded to threaten me with a thousand pound fine (wtf?) so i led her on for another good ten minutes whilst watching stuff on youtube She was MEGA pissed off at the end and after some more threats i asked her where she was based (LONDON!) and she then said i was not taking her seriously and hung up Was amusing and definitely pissed them off more than hanging up. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
devil 4 Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 lol!!! thats what we need to do to them all!!!! I love getting a good scam site.. where it almost looks real and fill out the forum with things like, Mr Islept with your Mum and so on... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pitch 4 Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 funny! well done, that was a good read. would like to hear more of these instances. i had one a while back but it wasnt as funny as yours. he said i had a virus and i acted really concerned and worried so i told him i was an it security engineer and if he told me the name of the virus i could get a signature file update from HQ, he couldnt tell me the virus (surprise) and so i asked the name of his company so i can google it; to which he hung up. its as if through outsourcing these buggers have gotten all of our details! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
somewhatdamaged 76 Posted November 16, 2011 Author Share Posted November 16, 2011 One of them rang a friend of mine who is ex directory. How do they get these numbers? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pitch 4 Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 again i will speculate that its the foreign call centres selling out data Quote Link to post Share on other sites
molly 95 Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 (edited) they keep ringing the mrs and giving her the chat, as i never answer the home phone, then tonight she handed me the phone and he hung up. was gutted as i wanted to string him along a bit Edited November 16, 2011 by molly Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pongo 4,335 Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 One of them rang a friend of mine who is ex directory. How do they get these numbers? again i will speculate that its the foreign call centres selling out data More likely their systems auto dial sequentially until someone picks up. Sometimes they maybe have your name on the screen, other times not - depending on what other reverse lookup data their systems pull in connected to the number. And the script probably varies dependng upon what they have. You are wasting your time playing with them. They don't care. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonnyh26 0 Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 i had one at lunch time today so went a long for a little bit just to waste there time, tried asking were they got my number from and just hung up Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Katman 189 Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Same, had one on the phone a couple of days ago, I quite enjoy getting the odd one, as I like to play along. The other type I got was from someone who told me I could get loads of money back from my credit card company and it wouldn't cost me a penny as the up front £299.00 fee would be refunded once my claim was successful. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tweek 871 Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 I wouldn't sign any contracts with an Indian company, never mind one of these IT Indian companies. Too many butts. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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