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[Closed] On the phone, Windows have found a virus on my computer - lol

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Just when he thinks you're about to do it, cut the call mid sentence - that'll really leave him hanging 🙂


 
Posted : 20/09/2011 1:17 pm
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Still cannot get this 6 digit code typed in correctly into my pc, think he is nearly done in now, well I am, lunch over in 5, so need to end it with a high....


 
Posted : 20/09/2011 1:19 pm
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Congrats on your public service of keeping him away from people who might actually get scammed.


 
Posted : 20/09/2011 1:19 pm
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Ask him if you can pay him now on the phone with your credit card?


 
Posted : 20/09/2011 1:23 pm
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£89, I think not, trying to haggle him down a bit.....

I offered him a 'longwait' & he is still on hold..


 
Posted : 20/09/2011 1:26 pm
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Offer to pay £20 tops and you will get your card. I bet he goes for it and que long wait while you find the card!


 
Posted : 20/09/2011 1:31 pm
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Put him on hold over lunch, or forward to a 'Me so horny' line?


 
Posted : 20/09/2011 1:32 pm
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Tell him you can only find your credit card for your bank account in Vietnam and ask if he accepts payment in Dongs?


 
Posted : 20/09/2011 1:33 pm
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Its over, he hung up, on hold....

The annoying thing is, I had an elderly relative who nearly got scammed like this some time back & they were not in a position to lose £89!

Scum.


 
Posted : 20/09/2011 1:36 pm
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excellent effort. good on you.


 
Posted : 20/09/2011 1:38 pm
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a friends pregnant wife was threatened by one, saying, I know where you are, I will be round your house in 5 mins unless you agree to my services.

I wish more could be done to stop them


 
Posted : 20/09/2011 1:40 pm
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What was the final time?


 
Posted : 20/09/2011 1:40 pm
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they were not in a position to lose £89!

It's not just the up-front fees either - the PC will probably end up full of keyloggers and malware lining them up for credit card fraud, identity theft, etc etc. Make no bones about it, they're not just hustlers, they're criminals.


 
Posted : 20/09/2011 1:42 pm
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What was the final time?

1hour 7min, a PB for me 😉


 
Posted : 20/09/2011 1:45 pm
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Chapeau, sir.


 
Posted : 20/09/2011 1:45 pm
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Scum of the higest order. Well done on a text book execution of wasting their time.


 
Posted : 20/09/2011 1:46 pm
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i want them to phone me now.

so much material, so little time.


 
Posted : 20/09/2011 2:02 pm
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you could do the childish but highly infuriating route of just repeating everything he says.

But [i]why[/i]?


 
Posted : 20/09/2011 2:46 pm
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i want them to phone me now.

so much material, so little time.

Me too, never had one of these calls.


 
Posted : 20/09/2011 2:54 pm
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Ski, I salute you sir!
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I really want one of these calls, but I'm not sure I could spin one out for over an hour. Magnificent effort, there should be a prize for that. I'd also like for one to threaten me. I could meet him at the door holding the Kukri my dad was given by a Gurka after the war.


 
Posted : 20/09/2011 3:22 pm
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Had one, told him to **** off and stop being an scamming idiot, and to give my regards to Mr Gates, to which his reply was "To who?". I nearly choked on my mobile I laughed so hard...


 
Posted : 20/09/2011 6:10 pm
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haha nice work. I don't have the patience to string them on for as long as that but one of them once refused to believe that Snow Leopard was a real operating system.


 
Posted : 20/09/2011 6:27 pm
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I get all god bothering on them or try to sell them double glazing.Hours of fun to be had.


 
Posted : 20/09/2011 6:33 pm
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