That was a moderately amusing 8 minutes

[mashman]

How come I never get fun phone calls like this lol

Keep yer fingers crossed.

I sounded concerned then asked them to hold for a second while I fired up the PC. Then I just left the phone on the kitchen bench. I have no idea how long they waited

I just stood in the kitchen trying not to roar with laughter... are you at the PC, why yes, yes I am... tis much more fun to string them along though, kind of impressive just how persistent they are.

Woman with an Indian accent ?

How did you know.

Yep, been there done that - twice now. I've recently moved house and have a new phone number, so I might get lucky and get to piss them off for a third time!

Keep up the good work folks :big grin:

It was more fun than I thought.

Wonder if there's a business opportunity there somewhere... press *45 to be redirected to a service that will handle those types of call for you... could have people answering speaking pigeon english and at the end of it send the person that passed the call through a copy of the tape.

[cs363]

It was more fun than I thought.

Wonder if there's a business opportunity there somewhere... press *45 to be redirected to a service that will handle those types of call for you... could have people answering speaking pigeon english and at the end of it send the person that passed the call through a copy of the tape.

And more people having fun with them than I thought, no wonder they get so pissed off!

What about some sort of computerised interactive voice mail thingy that you could just put the phone onto while you watch TV etc., it could go on for hours.....
Then you could play (sell?) the recordings to your mates for hours of entertainment later.

[Padmei]

They call themselves Creative Solutions and they know you have a virus on your hard drive. Oh no, WTF has happened, let's waste a moment or two to talk about why my PC hasn't alerted me shall we. Oh it's because you are affiliated with Microsoft and there's some hidden code on my hard drive that sends you messages about viruses. Ok, fair enough. What's the software called so that I can choose when to update the virus definitions manually. Oh, you have to connect to show me, can't you just tell me so that I can get a clearer understanding. No, oh that's disappointing. What does the virus do? It slows my laptop down does it, hmmmm, ok. So what do you need me to do? Go into internet explorer. Ok, there. And type in the following address. Oh hang on, which computer do you want me at as there's 4 in the house. Anyone it doesn't really matter. Oh right. But you know which computer has the problem. Yes. Which one is it. Oh you'd have to show me. Why can't you tell me. Because only our computer technicians know these things. Well I'm a computer technician. So type in the following address in the Address Bar. Not until you've told me which computer has the problem and have explained what the fix is. Oh you won't be fixing my PC, fair enough, but you said you knew what the problem was earlier. I know I know technician, but I'm a technician too and should be able to diagnose my own PC's if you tell me which one it is. They have names. Oh, ok, I'll type in that address into my address bar. www, aha, dot, aha, a for apple, m for mother, m for mother... you just said that, oh there's 2 m's, ok, y for yankee, y for yankee, dot com... and what'll happen when I hit enter. No no no, I'm not just going to hit enter until you tell me what's going to happen. Ok, I'll connect to your technician. Wait a minute, do you mean open up access to my computer for your technician to poke around. Sorry I don't like that. Ok ok, don't shout, but I'm not hitting enter until you've told me which PC has the virus. Yes and I'm a technician too. No I won't do it just because you've told me too, have you ever heard of the phrase the customer is always right. Stop shouting at me, I won't hit enter ... dooooooooooooooooooooo hello, hello.

Damn I larfed and larfed, she got a might tad pissy

Bro - you ever hit the enter button when you're typing?
My eyes are all tied up ... won't be able to see properly for hours now

[Oakie]

awwww me and my mrs are waiting for a call lol -Indy

What's your number?

[avgas]

The best was my sister - and it was unintentional. She has a handmedown compaq I gave her. They rung her, she went over and turned it on.
Lovely Indian lady waited the 10 minutes it took for the good ol PC to start up. Few more minutes for her to open firefox. Type in address.
She hits enter.
"Its saying I need to connect to the internet" "Yes, Yes" (remember that 15 minutes have now passed).
Enter is pressed.

"SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, BIB....PAR SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

"Oh sorry about that, I didn't think about the dial-up while I was on the phone.....hello??"

[mashman]

And more people having fun with them than I thought, no wonder they get so pissed off!

What about some sort of computerised interactive voice mail thingy that you could just put the phone onto while you watch TV etc., it could go on for hours.....
Then you could play (sell?) the recordings to your mates for hours of entertainment later.

heh, perhaps it should become a professional sport.

Wonder how Siri (the iPhone ?chick?) would handle the situation? Feck it, if it's yer mates it'd be freeeeeeeeeeeee

[mashman]

Bro - you ever hit the enter button when you're typing?
My eyes are all tied up ... won't be able to see properly for hours now

waaaa ha ha haaaaaaa, sorry mate, she musta conditioned me out of it

[Scuba_Steve]

The best was my sister - and it was unintentional.

my mum was also unintentionally ignorant when one of these scammers rung, went something along the lines of
"Hello this is MS we found a virus on your system etc"
"really? thats strange the Mac hasn't said anything"
"you have a Apple?"
"yea"
"ok, bye" [hangs up]

[The Lone Rider]

For the love a deity, somebody please do an audio recording of one of these calls (with your piss taking) and post it up.

I have enjoyed reading this thread.

[NordieBoy]

I was at a clients place, fixing their computer when they called. On speaker phone we strung them along for 15mins.
I got called and sat on the deck in the sun for 10mins for a pleasant chat.
A client got the call at the start of dinner, said "just a moment", put the phone on the table and the family had dinner.
They were still on the other end of the phone when they'd finished eating and then told them they only had macs.
A client paid for and tried to download Avast and clicked the "download now" button. The one that's an advert for ARO. Cue phone calls and big bills.
My stepfather got them to hang up on him.
I could go on...

[Clockwork]

After stringing them along for a while you could try this, Using your best Indian accent yell down the phone "You bloody Pakies, (If they're Indian this will really piss 'em off) ...you think we Kiwis know bugger nothing but I'm telling you, we know bugger all!!


Then hang up!

[Indiana_Jones]

lol best thread of the week

-Indy

[bungbung]

I told one caller that I was poor and didn't own a computer.
My wife told another to never call back or she would come around and piss on their couch.

We haven't had a call since.

[sinfull]

I typed in a porn address and sat there going awww shit, awww wow, noooo, jesus, for a few minutes before answering the chicks increasingly alarmed questions about what was happening !!!

So i told her !!

[george formby]

I've had one call from them at home & one at work, my internet cafe........... I do not have internet at home but do use a computer, took about 10 minutes before they realised I had no internet connection, Ghengis got a bit shitty. They hung up on the 3rd customer in my shop that they got handed on too, an angry Israeli who spat like a camel.

I had the heads up on this scam close to a year ago. A customer with scant computer knowledge believed them & came in to ask me about it, so we had to clean her computer & the credit card company refunded her $200