15-02-2020, 05:46 PM
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Over the 7 years have had phone calls saying I was to be dismissed from my Internet account.All the callers had an Indian accent.
How I replyed to them was in different ways.
One of the most nasty ones to a female spamer was to wish her children died of cancer.
Have not being troubled for over a year with them.
I find I do miss them always good for a piss take
15-02-2020, 06:43 PM
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Originally Posted by galty
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One of the most nasty ones to a female spamer was to wish her children died of cancer
No matter how unpleasant the scammer is I think that is a pretty terrible thing to say to them
You can't really tell whether a call is genuine or not just by a "foreign accent" since many call centres for UK companies are based abroad plus many locally based CS agents weren't born here.
16-02-2020, 11:48 AM
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Originally Posted by keezoy
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I love Spam. I 'm having Spam, egg .Spam. CHeese, Spam, bacon, sausage, Spam and Spam. 
16-02-2020, 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by galty
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Over the 7 years have had phone calls saying I was to be dismissed from my Internet account.All the callers had an Indian accent.
How I replyed to them was in different ways.
One of the most nasty ones to a female spamer was to wish her children died of cancer.
Have not being troubled for over a year with them.
I find I do miss them always good for a piss take
16-02-2020, 05:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Percy Vere
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Ha! As soon as I posted ^^ someone answered and sorted me out. Apparently it takes 24hrs to switch itself on then we're good to go. One thing I find a little scary, the technician I was talking to was based in BULGARIA!
16-02-2020, 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Percy Vere
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I've set it up and it was running. That is until SWMBO answered a call this morning that didn't display the caller's number (her SiL). I was told in no uncertain terms, "Turn that bluddy thing off, or else." I know which side my bread's buttered. It's switched off, as is the answer machine (she'll just have to live with that for a few days/weeks).
All husbands who value a quiet life know that.
16-02-2020, 05:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Emjay
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I don’t understand how people can fall for some of these scams. On the phone it is mostly recorded messages. Even rare live calls, I can tell as most of the callers are foreign.
I like the one where they say your Bank account has been infiltrated.
I them ask what bank is that? That gets them stopped in their tracks.
17-02-2020, 07:40 PM
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Anyone thinking that some hackers have got control of their email addresses might like to be reminded of the valid site which tells you if & how your email address has been passed on - or stolen.It's here:-
https://haveibeenpwned.com
You just type in your email address - nothing else - and it will tell you if & how.
This is a respectable web page - it found one of my email addresses had been taken and I had to get a new one.
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