"Microsoft Scam" Beware

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...a-call-centres

I had the second one of these 'phone calls today. The first time I said
'Its a scam' and put the phone down, but this time when I said I knew it
was a scam the Indian Lady said it wasn't. When I said it was she
replied that she would contact the police with my name and address for
defamation!!

My reply was that if she did I would sue her for threatening behaviour -
didn't bother to wait for her reply.

Now what can I think of for next time - a chat about the weather?


--
Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk
http://picasaweb.google.com/SallySeaside

On 30/11/2011 21:01, Sally Swindells wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...a-call-centres

I had the second one of these 'phone calls today. The first time I said
'Its a scam' and put the phone down, but this time when I said I knew it
was a scam the Indian Lady said it wasn't. When I said it was she
replied that she would contact the police with my name and address for
defamation!!

My reply was that if she did I would sue her for threatening behaviour -
didn't bother to wait for her reply.

Now what can I think of for next time - a chat about the weather?


This was my conversation with a young man:

CC: Your PC may be ---
Me: I don't have a Police Constable.
CC: No, your PC!
Me: I STILL don't have a police constable. But I can get one if you want...
CC: No, your Windows computer!
Me: My windows don't have a computer...
CC (slightly exasperated): No, your Personal computer! It runs Windows!
Me: No it doesn't!
CC: Oh...
Me: Good bye!
CC: But - !
Me: I don't have a goat, either...
CLICK! Brrrrr...

The joys of MacOSX.


--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

I just said 'Oh I know all about that'!!
She didn't say anything and I put the phone down g
..
In message , Sally Swindells
writes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...a-call-centres

I had the second one of these 'phone calls today. The first time I said
'Its a scam' and put the phone down, but this time when I said I knew
it was a scam the Indian Lady said it wasn't. When I said it was she
replied that she would contact the police with my name and address for
defamation!!

My reply was that if she did I would sue her for threatening behaviour
- didn't bother to wait for her reply.

Now what can I think of for next time - a chat about the weather?



--
Best Regards
Pat on the Green

On 30/11/2011 21:01, Sally Swindells wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...a-call-centres

I had the second one of these 'phone calls today. The first time I said
'Its a scam' and put the phone down, but this time when I said I knew it
was a scam the Indian Lady said it wasn't. When I said it was she
replied that she would contact the police with my name and address for
defamation!!

My reply was that if she did I would sue her for threatening behaviour -
didn't bother to wait for her reply.

Now what can I think of for next time - a chat about the weather?




I have had two of these calls and I just say I am 80 years old and do
not have a computer.
They then say they are sorry to trouble me.
I have instructed DH to say the same since he does not know how to
switch one on but is apt to say " My wife has one". I told him to say
there is none in the house.
It is only a little white lie since I have two PC's and a Ipad plus two
printers.

--
Shirley
www.allcrafts.org.uk

Kate,

Thanks for the laugh - your story is hilarious!

Donna in Idaho



This was my conversation with a young man:

CC: Your PC may be ---
Me: I don't have a Police Constable.
CC: No, your PC!
Me: I STILL don't have a police constable. But I can get one if you want...
CC: No, your Windows computer!
Me: My windows don't have a computer...
CC (slightly exasperated): No, your Personal computer! It runs Windows!
Me: No it doesn't!
CC: Oh...
Me: Good bye!
CC: But - !
Me: I don't have a goat, either...
CLICK! Brrrrr...

The joys of MacOSX.

On 01/12/2011 01:47, Donna wrote:
Kate,

Thanks for the laugh - your story is hilarious!

Donna in Idaho

Donna, never forget that I am the mad ole bat that told the double
glazing people that I didn't have any windows as I lived in the garden
shed! They didn't call back for several years after that one.



This was my conversation with a young man:

CC: Your PC may be ---
Me: I don't have a Police Constable.
CC: No, your PC!
Me: I STILL don't have a police constable. But I can get one if you want...
CC: No, your Windows computer!
Me: My windows don't have a computer...
CC (slightly exasperated): No, your Personal computer! It runs Windows!
Me: No it doesn't!
CC: Oh...
Me: Good bye!
CC: But - !
Me: I don't have a goat, either...
CLICK! Brrrrr...

The joys of MacOSX.


--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

We have received three of these call in the past month. Each time my DH and
I have led them on right to the bit where they ask for remote access then
tell them we don't have a computer with a window and hang up. The third
caller rang back and said I was not "a nice lady for leading him on".
I nearly wet my pants laughing.

Di

"Sally Swindells" wrote in message
...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...a-call-centres

I had the second one of these 'phone calls today. The first time I said
'Its a scam' and put the phone down, but this time when I said I knew it
was a scam the Indian Lady said it wasn't. When I said it was she replied
that she would contact the police with my name and address for
defamation!!

My reply was that if she did I would sue her for threatening behaviour -
didn't bother to wait for her reply.

Now what can I think of for next time - a chat about the weather?


--
Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk
http://picasaweb.google.com/SallySeaside

Beautiful!... A few months back, we had those calls from India, nearly
every early-evening, for over a month. I so wish, one of us had
thought of even something similar.
Carol in Auckland, NZ

On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:44:53 +0000, Kate XXXXXX
wrote:

CC: Your PC may be ---
Me: I don't have a Police Constable.
CC: No, your PC!
Me: I STILL don't have a police constable. But I can get one if you want...
CC: No, your Windows computer!
Me: My windows don't have a computer...
CC (slightly exasperated): No, your Personal computer! It runs Windows!
Me: No it doesn't!
CC: Oh...
Me: Good bye!
CC: But - !
Me: I don't have a goat, either...
CLICK! Brrrrr...

The joys of MacOSX.

On 03/12/2011 00:36, wrote:
Beautiful!... A few months back, we had those calls from India, nearly
every early-evening, for over a month. I so wish, one of us had
thought of even something similar.
Carol in Auckland, NZ

I either do Dotty Ole Bat at them, like this, or listen is silence until
they run down, then ask them to repeat everything... And again...
Eventually they get bored and go away.

The double glazing sales droids got it in the neck the day I had five
calls from different companies. The first four went a bit like this:

CC: I'd like to talk to you about windows...
Me: It's OK, I have a complete set, thank you.
CC: We have some special offers on at the moment. If you order six new -
Me: Why would I need six new windows?
CC: Long spiel about their fab new windows...
Me: Do they come with wooden frames?
CC: Oh, no! They are [all new spiffy plastic and steel crap]
ME: But you still haven't told me why I need to buy SIX...
CC: That's what our special offer is for.
Me: But what happens if I need five? Or 10? Can I get six of them at
the special offer price, and the rest at the ordinary price? Or do they
all come at the special price?
CC: Um...
Me: And as I live in a house that has certain restrictions on what I can
do to it*, can you offer these windows in a wooden frame?
CC: Er...
Me: Because if not, I can't use your service.
CC: Oh. I don't think we can help you.
Me: OK, then please take me off your list of potential customers. And
please be assured that when I DO want new windows, I'll be calling round
for quotes. As I don't deal with companies that resort to cold calling,
yours will not be called. Good bye.

By the time the fifth called with the same round of non-help, I was fed
up and told them straight: No, I live in the garden shed. It doesn't
have any windows!

No more window sales droids for several years!

*It does. I can't build anything more than three feet high (eg a garden
wall) in front of the building line. Nothing about windows at all!

On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:44:53 +0000, Kate XXXXXX
wrote:

CC: Your PC may be ---
Me: I don't have a Police Constable.
CC: No, your PC!
Me: I STILL don't have a police constable. But I can get one if you want...
CC: No, your Windows computer!
Me: My windows don't have a computer...
CC (slightly exasperated): No, your Personal computer! It runs Windows!
Me: No it doesn't!
CC: Oh...
Me: Good bye!
CC: But - !
Me: I don't have a goat, either...
CLICK! Brrrrr...

The joys of MacOSX.


--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

This is the reply DS sent me. He works in computers for a firm that
delevops really big commercial systems.

'We get these calls all the time… you get good fun out of them by
pretending to be stupid…

Scammer : - “please press the start button”
Me : - “ok I have done that”
Scammer : - “great so what does it say at the bottom of the screen now?”
Me: - It says “Sony”
Scammer : - “no,no, what does it say on the actual display”
Me : - “nothing, the computer is now turned off”
Scammer : - “but you just pressed the start button”
Me : - “yes, my start button is on the main box, pressing it again turns
the computer off”
………
Scammer : - “please type www.blahblahblah into your browser”
Me :- so that is 6 letter u’s???
Scammer : no, I mean whiskey whiskey whiskey!
Me :- How are you spelling whiskey?

You can go on for hours and it really is amazing the patience some of
these people have.. we have already discussed themes for the next calls
- try chatting them up, a marriage proposal, pretend stutter, suffer a
medical emergency while on the phone to them, burst into tears etc etc etc.

Wasting their time is what they hate the most, it costs the scammers
money and the call-centre staff get paid on their success rates.. so the
longer you keep them on the phone the better.'

I think next time I will ask them which computer it is with the virus -
we have the one in the Study and a laptop each. That seems an opening
which could be quite interesting, especially if they say all of them and
I have to go from room to room.

I'm almost hoping they will ring again!

Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk
http://picasaweb.google.com/SallySeaside

On 30/11/2011 21:01, Sally Swindells wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...a-call-centres

I had the second one of these 'phone calls today. The first time I said
'Its a scam' and put the phone down, but this time when I said I knew it
was a scam the Indian Lady said it wasn't. When I said it was she
replied that she would contact the police with my name and address for
defamation!!

My reply was that if she did I would sue her for threatening behaviour -
didn't bother to wait for her reply.

Now what can I think of for next time - a chat about the weather?