The indians have stopped calling me. I wonder if it is because I connected them to a sandboxed computer with password folder containing various viruses ?

I don't think I have ever before been told by an India customer service consultant named Paul to G! and get F#@&#d before.

Does anyone know if Paul is a common Indian name ?

John Smith wrote on Jul 5^th, 2023 at 10:37pm:


I was always very polite I think it was when his computer stopped working that he got upset.

There is another one that keeps calling that thinks I have a different name and am in a different state.

Dnarever wrote on Jul 5^th, 2023 at 8:07pm:


I had an Indian call me yesterday.

When I answered, he said: "Hello, this is network support.  You're talking to Justin - how may I help you today?"

Justin?  Really?   

And he called me, I didn't call him   

Scumbag scammers   

I hung up immediately, of course.

OMFG! I nearly got scammed out of $500!

I put up a vintage item for sale, this person wants to do PAYID

He almost had me!
The emails etc
Supposed from payid and my bank is not taking phone calls for me to check.
This dude says to respond to payid email
And it was a Gmail account.
He says he paid in $450 and showed up a receipt. But as it’s “business” he had to pay $500 extra to upgrade mine to business do I could get money into my account but he wanted to trust me to pay back his $500

Well I says since you’re coming in morning to pick it up… I will deal with you face to face.
I sent him info I found online about how payid contacts through the bank and not from payid themselves.
He was urging Mehta give him the $500 back and thought he could trust me etc.
I said I’m contacting bank in morning and have patience as he says his wife is picking it up in morning I said it will be sorted then.
I sent him screen shots of how with payid it’s through the bank and should be in bank immediately.
Well nothing doing.
He even said I don’t need to contact my bank.
All the red flags started waving at me!
After I said how odd payid has a gmail address and once I sent screen shots … he’s gone all quiet.

Very clever scam and nearly got me.
I cannot wait to talk to bank in morning!
Will let you know what they say.
Honestly I feel sick I nearly fell for it but lucky I didn’t.

Wise decision Sophia.  It was so obviously a scam
from the get-go.

Please don't respond in future to any of these scammers,
as there's every likelihood they're on-selling your email
address to other scammers.

If you must reply to them (for some reason?) then
please use a 'throw away' email address.

You might like to check out this anti-scammer site:

   Anti Fraud News.

And you can report this scammer to the Australian
government Scamwatch site here:

   National Anti-Scam Centre.

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 21^st, 2023 at 1:28pm:


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If I am not busy I sometimes talk to them for as long as they will stay on the line. They are working a shift and the more time they waste talking to me the less time they have to scam someone who may be vulneralble.

This (above) is a common scam.

The scammer, of course, doesn't even want your
item;  it's all about the money.

If you were to accept their offer to purchase, they'd
then follow up with a request to pay an allegedly
refundable "insurance" fee or "processing" fee of
maybe $200 to FedEx.

They construct a bogus web page that for all intents
and purposes mimics a genuine FedEx site, with a
payment input form that's linked to their own bank
account (rather than FedEx).

To delay any followup on your part, they'll often send
another email claiming that FedEx has experienced
delays in their courier pickup service, of maybe three
or four days.  This explains, at least initially, why you
don't see the FedEx pickup courier—as you expect.


Bear in mind that these scammers contact thousands
of targets every day, so that $200 fee can certainly
mount up—even if only 10% of targets respond.