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Author Topic: I've found a way to stop nuisance phone calls.  (Read 16129 times)

CLKD

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Re: I've found a way to stop nuisance phone calls.
« Reply #15 on: August 12, 2017, 07:48:42 PM »
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Re: I've found a way to stop nuisance phone calls.
« Reply #16 on: February 03, 2018, 10:19:29 PM »
When they tell me that I have had a Windows security breach, I try to sound as meek and panicky as possible and ask them if they need my password and bank details.  Their excitement is palpable.

I pretend to key in whatever they tell me to and pretend to open the files they want me to and when they ask what I can see on the screen I tell them, "pornography"  They seem to like that.  Then I hang up.

I have also used the decapitated line as mentioned earlier in this thread.  They don't click at first and continue to ask for details.  Love it!
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Re: I've found a way to stop nuisance phone calls.
« Reply #17 on: February 04, 2018, 04:32:39 PM »
We haven't had any for a couple of weeks .......... I feel left out  ;D

It was someone ringing about Telephone Preference Service in the middle of last month.  Wanted my mobile phone details then my bank details ...... when I pointed out that TPS is a free service there was silence, then "Not the one you have signed up to".  I'll be ready for him next time, obviously from India, obviously a scam. 
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Re: I've found a way to stop nuisance phone calls.
« Reply #18 on: February 04, 2018, 06:41:36 PM »
The sad thing about these overseas call centres is that (according to a documentary I watched a couple of years back) the operators actually aspire to get the jobs.  Not because of what they have to do but because the pay is relatively high in their countries. 
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Re: I've found a way to stop nuisance phone calls.
« Reply #19 on: February 04, 2018, 07:30:11 PM »
Yep.  Horses for courses then ........ they know what they are doing when they take the jobs, sometimes I can hear them reading from printed company sheets, I can hear them turning those over  ::), I've been known to tell them to 'skip the pages, turn to the end and get to the point'  ;)
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