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dogbert10
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:23 pm Posts: 638 Location: 3959 miles from the centre of the Earth - give or take a bit
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Just had a phone call from a gentleman of the Indian persuasion from a company called Creative Solutions Online, claiming that my PC was sending corrupt files to them and that as they contained my computer's CLSID, they (somehow) managed to get my phone number (didn't say how they managed this) and said they'd scan my PC and sort out the "problems". He quickly noticed my exceedingly health sense of skepticism (I have a PhD in skepticism from the University of Skeptics), but never the less he went on trying to convince me that I had problems.
Suffice to say I got bored after a few minutes of debating the fact that there was no way he could have got the info he claimed to have, and there was nothing at all wrong with my PC.
Has the word SCAM written all the way through, over and under it.
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Tue May 29, 2012 4:06 pm |
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rustybucket
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:10 pm Posts: 5836
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Just remember that every minute that you keep him on the phone is 60 seconds that he can't scam some poor naïve old dear.
I keep them on the line as long as possible.
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Tue May 29, 2012 4:25 pm |
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mikepgood
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:23 pm Posts: 710
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I think about this, but after awhile can't be bothered. I kept talking for a few minutes once, then asked the person how they felt trrying to defraud some poor innocents of their cash, and if they could sleep at night.
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Tue May 29, 2012 5:18 pm |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm Posts: 8767 Location: behind the sofa
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I wish they'd phone me, although now I say that it would probably be at a really bad time or catch me unaware. "How does it feel, knowing that you will be reincarnated as a slug and that your children and grandchildren for generations to come will be cursed with bad Karma because of the evil that you do?" To which the probable reply is "I have 10 children that will starve in this life if I can't con someone out of their savings".
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Tue May 29, 2012 5:53 pm |
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brataccas
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:14 pm Posts: 5664 Location: Scotland
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ive got a few of those calls, I just speak to them in Hindi, quite fun
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Tue May 29, 2012 8:31 pm |
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gotimmy
Has a life
Joined: Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:38 pm Posts: 71
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Mine got the hump and hung up on me when I called him a criminal scammer 
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Wed May 30, 2012 7:48 am |
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Spreadie
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:06 pm Posts: 6355 Location: IoW
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Yeah, that tends to get their back up a bit. 
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Wed May 30, 2012 8:44 am |
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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm Posts: 12251
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I told one I didn't use windows, and they got very nasty about it.
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Wed May 30, 2012 9:49 am |
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bubbles
Occasionally has a life
Joined: Thu Apr 30, 2009 6:34 pm Posts: 309
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try spending 20mins with them, basically trolling them and then hanging up....he rang me back -.-
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Wed May 30, 2012 10:58 am |
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brataccas
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:14 pm Posts: 5664 Location: Scotland
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next time they phone say to them "aapka baabul harami hai aur aapki aami SHARAABI hai"
very very harsh use of words, worse than the "F" word, if they are muslim Indians then they will be VERY offended, I basically said "your dad is a f***ing b***ard and your mum is an alcoholic.
I said that and he said in a low voice "same to you, same to you.... then silence... then I heard in the backround someone shouting "THE GUY IS CALLING US HARAMI OMG" in punjabi
then they hung up
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