Wow I sucked some Indian crook in quite well tonight!

Played really dumb and let him tell me what he (and a she at first) wanted to know

What is on your screen... I said Goog;le

I said how do you know it is my computer...It is registered with Microsoft

How do you know that ?......Said my Surname obviously from a  white pages list

I finally couldnt help myself and asked him what his mother thought of him being a fuggin criminal

He hung up!   

Redmond Neck wrote on Dec 1^st, 2016 at 7:58pm:


I kept one going for ages. I use Linux, not that I told him that, so it was very hard for him to tell me what to do. "I don't have a start button. I have an Applications button." "There is no control panel in there". Do you use a Mac? "No."

Now I just hang up.

Had a guy from the Accident dept call me the other day. He told me that they had come into information that I have had an accident recently that was not my fault. Then he asked me if I had an accident recently. Told him straight out that if I had an accident, I would be the one making phone calls about insurance and the like -- not getting phone calls from an insurance company (or whatever). Guy says "No issue, then" and hangs up.

I wonder how many people they sucker into these sorts of scams?

Redmond Neck wrote on Dec 1^st, 2016 at 8:02pm:

Why? It's not like it's going to stop these crooks from calling you again.

Bam wrote on Dec 1^st, 2016 at 9:49pm:


And when they introduce themselves as "John", they say it like "John?" with that upward inflection. Because they know that they are unsure about themselves and can't help question their own honesty towards you.

That thread title had me going for a moment:-

Who has sucked the fa....... (the mind boggles).......

..... nny of Michaela Cash?  Bronwyn Bishop? Julia Gillard? Quentin Price?  Her Maj The Queen?  Any amorphous sheila with a title that demands that the ages-old 'lure of power' to the sexually objectified (in this case Men), will cause them, by virtue of being confronted by a 'powerful' woman....... to (coughs - ahem) fall into their laps?

The mind boggles.......

UnSubRocky wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2016 at 12:03am:


But... But... We don't even know you! At least buy us a drink first!

Anyway, now you're up to speed, thoughts?

UnSubRocky wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2016 at 12:34am:


Or perhaps not tell us your Chubby Checkered past that for some reason is recalled at the most inopportune time on something I would normally address with sexual innuendo. The pattern matching and recall of the brain is amazing and weird.

Hmm.. Perhaps I should have a Vindows wirtual machine, just for fun.

Setanta wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2016 at 12:49am:


Dey?

UnSubRocky wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2016 at 2:48am:


If could take that as a question...

edit: Oh, you told us you were bit big boned in preceding years.

Redmond Neck wrote on Dec 1^st, 2016 at 7:58pm:




I tell them that I don't have a computer.
That gets rid of them.

longweekend58 wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2016 at 11:03am:


No money in it.... watching the last part of 'first Contact' last night, and David Oldfield continually stuck to the line that if there was no material benefit in it, it was worthless... same kind of reasoning applies here - why spend millions chasing corporate crooks and scammers when all you need do is hand out a ticket for a few hundred to any passing motorist in the full knowledge that even if he/she did NOT do it, they can't fight it?

Been assaulted that way myself while doing a security run at night, alone..... amazing but true.... a corrupt cop can get away with anything... because the 'courts' allow them to.  Perhaps hanging one in ten magistrates once in a while will bring them to their senses.. and to the realities of LAW, and not just pure bullying.

Sheriff of Nottingham....... only they rob the highways.... should change 'Highway Patrol' to 'Highwaymen'.