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Anyone else get nuisance calls offering to fix the problems with your Windows computer?
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Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
I just said I haven't got a computer. Since then (over 6 months ago) I haven't had another call.
spongy
Well-known member
I haven't been blessed with these phone calls yet...
But I am blessed with calls from automated messages telling me I qualify for a new government funded boiler
I'm getting them up to 4 times a day and regularly fill up our answer machine so we can't accept any more messages. We can get up to 4 of these a day and they drive me insane. I've even phoned them back on several occasions. Politely, and angrily telling them to remove our phone number from their lists but they still keep coming.
We moved 7 weeks ago to a new rented flat, and switched phone providers and had a new number installed for our broadband . Only 6 people have the number , me and the missus , my parents and her parents. We haven't given it out to anyone else or typed it into anything on the internet. It's also ex directory and we are now registered with the TPS.
Yesterday we had a voice message from the same poxy advert
I give up with it I really do
If it wasn't for needing a landline for the internet and our parents to call us (they still haven't got used to mobile phones yet) I wouldn't have one.
Edit.... Can anyone tell me why in my post that answer machine and mobile phones are hyperlinked to very.co.uk for an answer phone and mobile phones is hyperlinked to the Vodafone site?? I didn't tell it to do that! And if it's some sort of advertising program on NSC do I get a cut of any profits seeing as I'm being used to do it?
But I am blessed with calls from automated messages telling me I qualify for a new government funded boiler
I'm getting them up to 4 times a day and regularly fill up our answer machine so we can't accept any more messages. We can get up to 4 of these a day and they drive me insane. I've even phoned them back on several occasions. Politely, and angrily telling them to remove our phone number from their lists but they still keep coming.
We moved 7 weeks ago to a new rented flat, and switched phone providers and had a new number installed for our broadband . Only 6 people have the number , me and the missus , my parents and her parents. We haven't given it out to anyone else or typed it into anything on the internet. It's also ex directory and we are now registered with the TPS.
Yesterday we had a voice message from the same poxy advert
I give up with it I really do
If it wasn't for needing a landline for the internet and our parents to call us (they still haven't got used to mobile phones yet) I wouldn't have one.
Edit.... Can anyone tell me why in my post that answer machine and mobile phones are hyperlinked to very.co.uk for an answer phone and mobile phones is hyperlinked to the Vodafone site?? I didn't tell it to do that! And if it's some sort of advertising program on NSC do I get a cut of any profits seeing as I'm being used to do it?
Not happened on mine. But if I say they have, can I have a share of the profits too?
Pinkie Brown
Wir Sind das Volk
All the time. Average of one a fortnight. Depending on my mood:
1. String them along for a few minutes then tell them I can't access my windows as the curtains are drawn.
2. Tell them to "go away"
3. Scream really loud down the phone as if being attacked.
There is a YouTube clip where a guy who is a programmer strings them along or over an hour. Towards the end, the scammer loses it and starts abusing the guy when he realises he has been strung along.
1. String them along for a few minutes then tell them I can't access my windows as the curtains are drawn.
2. Tell them to "go away"
3. Scream really loud down the phone as if being attacked.
There is a YouTube clip where a guy who is a programmer strings them along or over an hour. Towards the end, the scammer loses it and starts abusing the guy when he realises he has been strung along.
Scoffers
Well-known member
Pretty much what I do.
I've told them lots of stuff to test them and it's fun when you take them somewhere where their scamming script doesn't tell them how to respond.
The best way to get rid is to tell them the only person in the house who has a computer is you son/daughter (whether its true or not) they immediately give up at that point as they seem to have been told they are not allowed to talk to kids.
Scammers the lot of them