I just got a call...

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BT from India... problem with my broadband. I laughed. he asked why? I said its a well known scam.
He asked do I have a bank account with at least £10k?
I asked why, even if he was from BT, would he think that's any of his business?
he said so that i could send it to him in India.
I asked if he'd like it converted into rupees first.
He said that would be good.
I asked for his bank account details. he said no, it needs to be moneygram.
I asked if that was because the police would catch him if I had his bank account? He said yes it was.
I confirmed that would be because he was a fraudster and I'd be his victim.

At this point, i think he knows that its not going to happen. But a minute later he ask me to get on with it. He asks if I think he is stupid.
I say no, i don't think he's stupid because I believe he knows that there is no way on Earth that I'll be sendinghim any money at all.
Then he just politely thanks me and hangs up!

I love winding them up - when I know they are genuine chancers not just a sales person from overseas from my utility company or somwthing. Last car crash one phoned about "your car accident", I did the shocked/panicked/crying "who has had an accident/are they ok/oh my goodness which hospital" until they hung up. Computer virus - switch on your computer, "hold on I need my bus pass", confused conversation, "just getting my keys", when they insist it's about the computer - "yes, I know, I use the one at the library"

Call from "Windows", I start ranting on about the condensation problems and the draughty, and I'm sure the conservatory door has dropped on its hinges...

Bloody hell, what are all the biscuits amd snarky comments in aid of ?? We've had such an issue with overseas scammers constantly calling i've binned our landline. 😬

I too have heard of the Nigerian scam / Indian microsoft scam.......personally I couldnt care less where they're from. Theyre disgusting scumbags hoping a vulnerable person will pick up the phone. More should be done to stop them.

I always keep getting the ones about being in a car accident. I know tell them yes and unfortunately I died and hang up.

There have been scams originating in Nigeria for decades - I worked for a bank in the late 1970's and the staff were forbidden to open accounts, send documents or issue credit cards to anyone with a Nigerian address.

bigbluebus

next time you get an unwelcome call, dial 1572, then option 1

v easy

though I usually do it online.

In fact, if that's a known scammer, it might already be blocked on the BT list.

Car accident Ines can be fun if you're in the right mood, last season me I got went along the lines of me thanking them profusely for calling as I wasn't sure I'd be entitled to anything... let them question you for ages, hen admit to being a bit tipsy, well it was my divorce party and the ex was a fucker, and maybe after the 8th glass of champers I should've realised it wasn't a good idea to steal his fucking mercy and go joyriding pissed at 4 in the morning but he deserved it, driving it through the bay window of his love best with the other woman might have a bit ott but by god it felt amazing even if the whiplash is a bastard.... he hung up when I mentioned MY whiplash

I usually ask them if their mother is proud of them.....scamming people for a living. The Indian ones especially get quite offended.

My other trick for the computer scams is to ask them for the IP address so I can ping the server. Makes most of them hang up fairly fast.

I got a call from 'paypal' earlier that started: could you confirm your email address and password please. Got quite stroppy when I said that if there was a problem with my account I would call back on the number on their website.

I had one of these calls a few years ago (at least 8 years ago). After I had got rid of the caller, I did 1471. To my surprise, I got a very odd number. I googled it and found it was from - guess where? ... Nigeria!

"Well bad luck to them, she got a significant payout from them in damages."

I don't believe you.

Sorry.

I had someone ring me once from a bank (not my bank) knew my name and old post code when i said that's not my postcode anymore he asked for the new one. As soon as i asked what it was regarding i didn't give them new postcode he hung up. The scary thing was i very nearly gave it as i was in a rush to go out not sure what made me question it. Glad i did.

I say 'oh sorry I don't have a phone' and then hang up.

I get lots of ones that are recorded messages. It insults me that they can't even be bothered to have a human on the line to sell me crap. Wish I could work out how to block them (not with BT). They say "international" on the display

Depends what they're trying to scam me on. If it's the telephone then I tell them I haven't got a phone. If it's windows, then I go on about having managed to get double-glazing downstairs and needing it upstairs, can they send someone...
Currently getting a lot of calls about Dh's business - apparently it doesn't show up in Google maps. I told the guy that he was talking rubbish as I had google maps in front of me and it was the first thing displayed. Then he asked me what keyword I was using. I said "I am using the name of the business, what are you using?" and he mumbled something. I then suggested that perhaps his computer had a virus, was he using a windows operating system? And he got a bit fed up with me and rang off.

Whenever my dad gets a phone call asking him if he's had an accident in the last 12 months he always say that he has... he then proceeds to tell them about it little accident which is him weeing himself. They always hang up after.

He also tells people selling windows and doors "got some thanks" he makes me laugh anyway.

I love some of the comebacks on this thread!

However, have any of you noticed that if you piss them off (particularly the Microsoft one) you get loads more calls for a while?

I remember getting a lot of these calls a few years ago.
They don't bother any more.
My favourite trick would be putting the phone beside the radio and hiring it up to full blast :-)
Then other's would get a stern f off lol

I do find if you piss them off they bother you more. I get this call from "o2" only it's not! One time I answered it, I told them to stop calling me and I didn't think they were o2 and the bloke was so rude and couldn't believe I didn't want an "upgrade". I got quite annoyed with him and asked that he not call again.

Anyway 10 minutes later I got text notifications to my phone from the real o2 with codes for changing my password. I had about 20 texts in a row. Then the dodgy number tried calling again and again. I ignored.

I called the real o2 and they were useless but they did confirm the call was not from them.

I use the 'block' function on my mobile a lot. I love my block caller function When DS was tiny we used to get a lot of marketing and scam calls to the landline, couldn't afford a fancy phone so I used to tell them they'd need to talk to my financial adviser/estate manager and hand the phone to DS so he could yabber at them about Fireman Sam or Peppa Pig til they gave up. Another good alternative is to say 'oh okay, bear with me for just a minute' and shut the phone in the fridge for half an hour or so.

Mostly these days if we get a call to the landline I wind them up as much as possible. Occasionally they call back to swear at you but, let's face it, with English being at least their second language they're not much cop at it. I can always out-cuss them

I don't seem to have a call blocker function. I've got a Galaxy S6.

For Android

(and we haven't got a landline)

Why can't it just be the Indian scam?
It's not isolated to Nigeria or Nigerians.

Nigerian scams operate more by email.

Thanks LH. 😆

Dh is an operations administrator for
A big mobile company where we live. We had the Microsoft scam.

They were telling him what the IP address was and he was explaining that they were giving an internal one which wa s impossible as surely he would need the external. It was hilarious. They told dh to stop being so rude and hung up