Phone Scammers

Chris_D · Post by **Chris_D** » Tue Jan 10, 2023 9:04 pm

Pondrew wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 8:57 pm
Chris_D wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 8:46 pm We not interesting in what you eating for dinner or about your holiday in Skegness.'
Overstepped the mark there.
Skeggy is a jewel in the crown of English seaside resorts. 32 flavours of ice-cream I'll have you know and tattoos for a fiver on the prom!

Yeah, a real jewel these days with all those migrants flowing in!
Maybe that's why Scubaregs likes going there. I heard those Albanians will listen to anyone's boring stories for a fiver an hour.

pvr · Post by **pvr** » Tue Jan 10, 2023 9:05 pm

The best way to identify an Indian call is that you hear a little bleep on the line. As soon as I hear that, put the phone down.

Chris_D · Post by **Chris_D** » Tue Jan 10, 2023 9:17 pm

pvr wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 9:05 pm The best way to identify an Indian call is that you hear a little bleep on the line. As soon as I hear that, put the phone down.

How do you know that bleep isn't someone from the postcode lotterij calling to advise you that you won €3million years ago and finally tracked you down to the UK so you can claim it?

pvr · Post by **pvr** » Tue Jan 10, 2023 9:23 pm

Well, unlikely as Indians can’t speak Dutch and Dutch people can’t understand Indian English so there is no chance that the Dutch lottery would use them

Pondrew · Post by **Pondrew** » Tue Jan 10, 2023 9:27 pm

pvr wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 9:23 pm Dutch people can’t understand Indian English

I work at the KLM offices at Heathrow. Lots of Dutchies (obviously) and lots of UK Asians with accents! They seem to do alright.

pvr · Post by **pvr** » Tue Jan 10, 2023 9:35 pm

Pondrew wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 9:27 pm
pvr wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 9:23 pm Dutch people can’t understand Indian English
I work at the KLM offices at Heathrow. Lots of Dutchies (obviously) and lots of UK Asians with accents! They seem to do alright.

International travellers indeed, not the general public who don’t get a daily exposure

obewan · Post by **obewan** » Tue Jan 10, 2023 10:04 pm

I love stringing them along if I have time on my hands, otherwise I just say 'I bet your parents are really proud of you' and hang up

On a more serious note my elderly mum was getting loads of them and she was constantly asking me if she had Amazon Prime or an internet connection - she has neither.
TPS wasn't stopping them either.

I bought a her Phone that requires a PIN number (advised in a answering message) to be entered by the caller to get through if their number is not in the the phones contact list

It works an absolute treat, obviously recorded robot calls can't, scammers or cold callers can't be ar$ed, genuine callers do.
She's not had an unwanted call since she got it

ronk · Post by **ronk** » Tue Jan 10, 2023 10:09 pm

I think that's the problem - we are ok now while we are still 'with it' and can often have a bit fun with these calls but add a few years and we all tend to go off the the boil - that's where the bar stewards claim their victims.

Pondrew · Post by **Pondrew** » Tue Jan 10, 2023 10:38 pm

ronk wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 10:09 pm I think that's the problem - we are ok now while we are still 'with it' and can often have a bit fun with these calls but add a few years and we all tend to go off the the boil - that's where the bar stewards claim their victims.

Exactly. You would think this type of behaviour would be made illegal by the Gov, but guess who sells our details to these people? Yep the UK Government. I read somewhere the UK Gov is the largest retailer of database information on it's citizens. You can bet they won't be fussy who they sell it to.

MikeyH · Post by **MikeyH** » Wed Jan 11, 2023 12:11 am

Pondrew wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 10:38 pm
ronk wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 10:09 pm I think that's the problem - we are ok now while we are still 'with it' and can often have a bit fun with these calls but add a few years and we all tend to go off the the boil - that's where the bar stewards claim their victims.
Exactly. You would think this type of behaviour would be made illegal by the Gov, but guess who sells our details to these people? Yep the UK Government. I read somewhere the UK Gov is the largest retailer of database information on it's citizens. You can bet they won't be fussy who they sell it to.

Got to find the money from somewhere to pay all these people wanting pay rises somehow

N4LLY · Post by **N4LLY** » Wed Jan 11, 2023 2:24 pm

enuff_zed wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 8:50 pm Loving the fact that Chris_D and Scubaregs are having a personal cock-swinging contest in this thread, yet everyone else is carrying on like their posts are invisible.

They are invisible to me

(Chris-D that is)

Chris_D · Post by **Chris_D** » Wed Jan 11, 2023 3:31 pm

N4LLY wrote: ↑Wed Jan 11, 2023 2:24 pm
enuff_zed wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 8:50 pm Loving the fact that Chris_D and Scubaregs are having a personal cock-swinging contest in this thread, yet everyone else is carrying on like their posts are invisible.
They are invisible to me (Chris-D that is)

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r2uzenblot · Post by **r2uzenblot** » Sat Jan 14, 2023 10:01 pm

I simply say to the spammers' Hang on a minute I'll get him but I have to warn you he does suffer from Tourettes'. Then we have some fun.............

MikeyH · Post by **MikeyH** » Sat Jan 14, 2023 11:48 pm

I used to keep them chatting but the wife told me to stop as I had better things to do

Owdgit · Post by **Owdgit** » Sun Jan 15, 2023 8:08 pm

I enjoyed the "It's about your accident sir".
My response was "It wasn't an accident, I meant to kill them". Usually ends the call.

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