Originally Posted by
JBR
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I've just had a call from a very nice (Indian sounding) man from 'Virgin Media', who wanted to warn me that my internet connection is suffering from a fault.
He went through the usual procedure: Are you on the computer? Are you connected to Virgin Media? etc, etc.
The next step was for me to press the Windows key and R.
However, before that I told him that I need to ask him a security question, and asked him to tell me my Virgin account number.
Oh, sorry sir, our systems have changed and in order to do that I need your Virgin registration number.
OK.
To do that, sir, I must ask you to press the Windows key and R.
So I told him that I know my registration number and asked him to tell it to me.
Surprisingly, he reeled off an alphanumeric number, of which I have no idea whether correct or not, but I responded that "no, that number is incorrect".
That was about it and he decided to give it up, but not before calling me
a f***ing c***.
Quite a good English response, I thought, for an Indian chap.