Beware of Cold Callers Claiming To Be From Microsoft

elainebadknee

Hi Everyone

I wanted to warn you all about a phone call we had this afternoon which my mum answered.
It was someone from an asian country, accent so bad mum couldnt understand them and asked to speak to someone with a "normal accent"!!!
They claimed to be from Microsoft and said our computer was in danger of going into meltdown as the result of a virus. They wanted mum to go on the computer, siwtch it on....I looked this up on net...They get you to log on, see if computer is running slow, if so they do an analysis that says there are 5 or 6 fatal errors. They then give you a code to enter, which connects you to them, telling you all the while that a technicain will fix the error asap, all the while wiping your data, personal info from your computer.....This ruins your computer, you need to get someone in to rectify this (if you can)......
Mum told them to call back in half an hour as she didnt like sound of it.....I told her if they call i will tell then im onto the National Fraud Agency.....I also once told a [Text Deleted] begging in an email never to contact me again as at time i was working as an admin assistant in a police building and said i was passing all their detials onto the cops...I didnt of course but sometimes these people can be persistent and rude and frightening...

Please take heed and if you get the call, refuse to take part in a conversation....

Keep safe guys n dolls....

Elainex

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coco67

if i get any calls like that of sales calls i usually ask them to hang on for a minute whilst i turn the telly down so i can hear them them take the phone and sit it by the telly ignorring it for a while untill they have hung up. there money there wasting not mine

dreamdaisy

Thanks elaine, I haven't heard of that one. I shall be wary! DD

tjt6768

I just wind them up, act like I've got a really bad asian accent, start going on about how I've spent my day, how many times I've ben to the loo and my bowel condition and piles etc...
They don't wasn't to listen usually, don't know why...
Lol

Tony

mellman01

Top this one then, a chap at works brother in law is a market trader and one Sunday about ten minutes after getting home from a day’s selling his door bell went there were 3 [Text Deleted] were there they bundled him in and beat him up tied him up them one of them who spoke fairly good English started interrogating him asking where all the money was, he refused to tell them so this guy got out a big knife and stabbed him in the thigh telling him to tell them or he would get the same in the other leg, well he blabbed and they left, oh and what did Thames valley’s finest do about it?. Not a great deal to be honest, they said they know this has been happening but didn’t want to make it public in case it caused a panic!.

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elainebadknee

Yeah supose you could do that, i just get rid of em soon as me, can be quite blunt when i want to be...

Elainex

coco67 wrote:

if i get any calls like that of sales calls i usually ask them to hang on for a minute whilst i turn the telly down so i can hear them them take the phone and sit it by the telly ignorring it for a while untill they have hung up. there money there wasting not mine

elainebadknee

Well you know DD it may or may not help anyone but i felt i had to share it...

Elainex

dreamdaisy wrote:

Thanks elaine, I haven't heard of that one. I shall be wary! DD

elainebadknee

Um aint that just you anyhow??? Our very own Windy Miller!!!

Lovely...

Elainex

tjt6768 wrote:

I just wind them up, act like I've got a really bad asian accent, start going on about how I've spent my day, how many times I've ben to the loo and my bowel condition and piles etc...
They don't wasn't to listen usually, don't know why...
Lol

Tony

elainebadknee

Oh heck thats awful and its yet another reason why we need to kick out these [Text Deleted] out of this country.....
Why didnt the police do nothing...Oh too scared of them probably...

Shocking aint it...Suppose im coveted up here in lake district...

Elainex

mellman01 wrote:

Top this one then, a chap at works brother in law is a market trader and one Sunday about ten minutes after getting home from a day’s selling his door bell went there were 3 [Text Deleted] were there they bundled him in and beat him up tied him up them one of them who spoke fairly good English started interrogating him asking where all the money was, he refused to tell them so this guy got out a big knife and stabbed him in the thigh telling him to tell them or he would get the same in the other leg, well he blabbed and they left, oh and what did Thames valley’s finest do about it?. Not a great deal to be honest, they said they know this has been happening but didn’t want to make it public in case it caused a panic!.

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mellman01

Yeah coppers round here are more interested in not offending their ethnicity, it's the same with [Text Deleted] the coppers are scared of them I know this to be true as a good mate at works son is a local bobby and he confirmed it, and he also said that 70% of rural crime here is done by [Text Deleted], it's so bad that if you have problems with them and call the police they don't want to come out and assist you.


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cebeem

coco67 wrote:

if i get any calls like that of sales calls i usually ask them to hang on for a minute whilst i turn the telly down so i can hear them them take the phone and sit it by the telly ignorring it for a while untill they have hung up. there money there wasting not mine

I do similar but turn the telly up and put the phone by it..!!

tjt6768

aww, Elaine and Mell, got told off! Haha....
Don't worry, I've got a good imagination, I can guess what you were saying... Lol

And me Elaine, windy miller? PARPP!

Lol

Tony

elainebadknee

Hey Tone

Well if i cant describe a call centre from that part of the world then its a bad state of affairs....I do not take it back and would not change a single letter i have typed ever!!!

The world is too PC...

Elainex

tjt6768 wrote:

aww, Elaine and Mell, got told off! Haha....
Don't worry, I've got a good imagination, I can guess what you were saying... Lol

And me Elaine, windy miller? PARPP!

Lol

Tony

elainebadknee

Good on ye!!

Elainex

cebeem wrote:

coco67 wrote:

if i get any calls like that of sales calls i usually ask them to hang on for a minute whilst i turn the telly down so i can hear them them take the phone and sit it by the telly ignorring it for a while untill they have hung up. there money there wasting not mine

I do similar but turn the telly up and put the phone by it..!!

Deedumdeedo

Slightly off subject but i thought i would share a funny story that a friend told me recently about cold callers.
One day my friend recieved a phone call asking him if he wanted a conservetry, fed up with the numerous calls from salesmen he decided it was time to get his own back so for the next 45mins he kept them talking about all kinds of rubbish with the promise at the end of the phone call he would give his address so a salesman could come round and give him a obligation free quote on a state of the art conserverty. After 45mins the caller asked for his address and he happily obliged.....
St James house
Flat 5
Top floor!!!
Needless to say,After complaining about how much of their time and money he had wasted keeping them for such a long time the call ended abuptly and he was never called by the certain company again!

elainebadknee

Oh..Thats taking it a bit too far in a venonous way!! But all the same i hate it when someone asks "have you a few minutes to spare?" which means have you really got about 45mins to an hour spare in which time to unfuriate me??

Elainex

Deedumdeedo wrote:

Slightly off subject but i thought i would share a funny story that a friend told me recently about cold callers.
One day my friend recieved a phone call asking him if he wanted a conservetry, fed up with the numerous calls from salesmen he decided it was time to get his own back so for the next 45mins he kept them talking about all kinds of rubbish with the promise at the end of the phone call he would give his address so a salesman could come round and give him a obligation free quote on a state of the art conserverty. After 45mins the caller asked for his address and he happily obliged.....
St James house
Flat 5
Top floor!!!
Needless to say,After complaining about how much of their time and money he had wasted keeping them for such a long time the call ended abuptly and he was never called by the certain company again!