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I just got a call...

207 replies

mmzz · 22/09/2017 09:52

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!

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FlandersRocks · 24/09/2017 12:30

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

I don't believe you. Sorry

Suit yourself. ''Tis true though. It took a long time, but she got there in the end.

Grimbles · 24/09/2017 12:51

Flanders rocks telephone lines/receivers have a maximum amplitude, no matter how loud the 'input' noise is, what comes out the receiver can't go above a certain limit.

So if anyone was at fault it's the company she worked fohaving shonky equipment!

usernameinfinito · 24/09/2017 13:01

I am taken now, but I would like a nigerian prince 😉

mychildrenaredrivingmemad · 24/09/2017 13:06

When I get these calls I keep them talking and then tell after a while tell them their call is being traced by the police ....

Castieldeansam · 24/09/2017 22:19

Accident one - I pretended to be driver in a hit and run and do the police know, and was the person killed, I think I'll turn myself in!

Microsoft one, play along or tell them we only have mac computer, or which one as my husband brought another one to the house, but not sure where he got that one or the other 15 we currently have stashed in our house. Did one where I told them I kept getting blue screen when I turned computer on and could he help me- he eventually told me to take it to get it repaired!

Just got one yesterday which when I said 'oh is this about the virus on my computer' to which he said ' no, you have a bomb in your computer!' I said 'a what?' 'A bomb, go switch on your computer' I said' I'm not going anywhere near my computer if it's got a bomb in it!' Him 'it's a time bomb ' me'thats really threatening' him ' now go turn on your computer tell me when you have' various back and forths where I 'turned on' computer, eventually they hung up when I told them it was a work computer not my own!!!

StrangeLookingParasite · 26/09/2017 08:03

Nigerian scams operate more by email.

No, they operate by whatever means they can. Years ago we got them by fax.
My favourite was the one with money in a diplomatic cabbage. We never could work out what word they really meant.

YesILikeItToo · 26/09/2017 10:49

I remember Nigerian scams arriving for my father in the post!

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