Oooooops... I made him cranky.

DellieMay · Senior Member

Oooooops... I made him cranky.

bill12 · Guru

Goodness Gracius Me! Are you sure it wasn,t a red indian? It was probable a scam, and I , for one, don,t like being answered by foriegn sounding oafs.But , with all the call centres moving offshore to save money, thats all we seem to get.Pretty pathetic, really. Any business who doesn,t employ australians has lost me anyway.

milo · Guru

way to go Dellie!!!! biggrin

That is a scam, very much a scam ..

its been doing the rounds for a long time now

one thing is Microsoft wiill never email or contact you

I hear heaps of these kind of calls all the time on the radio and the net..

best thing if they ring you , hang up..dont give them anything.

jack biggles · Senior Member

I've had them contact me a few times. I always tell them I'm just the secretary for the boss & that they will have to make an appointment to speak with him as he's a very busy man. Sometimes they try to continue to discuss matters with me and I always cut them short telling them, no point speaking to me, I can't make the decisions.
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One persistant fellow insisted on making an appointment to speak with the boss & the earliest I could fit him in was the 23rd of June, 2018. I asked him to ring the day before his appointment to confirm, to which he replied that he surely will. LOL

GO FIGURE!

kandagal · Guru

Hi DellieMay As I only have a mobile I miss out on all those 'trying to sell you something' or 'scam' calls. So I miss out on all the fun. When I'm at my daughters & she gets one of those calls I have a ball. Just lead them on a bit like Jack Biggles. Cheers

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

kandagal wrote:
Hi DellieMay As I only have a mobile I miss out on all those 'trying to sell you something' or 'scam' calls. So I miss out on all the fun. When I'm at my daughters & she gets one of those calls I have a ball. Just lead them on a bit like Jack Biggles. Cheers

post your phone number here and I will call you back pretending to be an indian, please bear in mind my indian accent is not very good biggrin biggrin biggrin

(I'm only joking, do NOT post your mob number here)

jimricho · Guru

DellieMay wrote:
He told me, I was, as he was calling from Melbourne.
Cheers Dellie

You should have asked him what the weather was like in Melbourne! Bet he wouldn't have had a clue!

jimbo · Guru

Kandagal...Love your Rig

KayJay · Veteran Member

Four simple words : DO NOT CALL REGISTER. Kevin & Jan

Ma · Guru

The do not call register seems to work, well it seems to have worked for us.

We haven't had any calls of this nature for quite some time.

Having said that you watch tomorrow we will probably get two or more.......

Beth54 · Guru

I had an Asian woman call me a couple of weeks ago with the same story. I too, told her I couldn't understand her.

And I'm on the 'do not call registry'!

Happywanderer · The Master

Me too Beth. Only call I've ever got. Maybe they don't class themselves as the annoying ones. I told the guy straight I knew it was a scam and he hung up on me.

DellieMay · Senior Member

I too am on the "no call register". Didn't make too much difference. Never mind..... I had a bit of fun!!!!
Cheers Dellie

DellieMay · Senior Member

Kandagal.... Dero has the time of his life with them too. Just got to love 'em.
Cheers Dellie

tonyd · Guru

I had one recently from an Indian chap claiming to be from Medibank Private seeking "just a few medical details". Over the phone. To a stranger? I don't think so, pal. Very short conversation. It MAY have been genuine, as he referred to a letter I vaguely recall receiving, but I found it intrusive and irritating. Having an unlisted home number, we get almost no calls at all. Cheers, Tony

DellieMay · Senior Member

Thats a new one tonyd...will be on the look out for that one. Thanks.
Dellie

KayJay · Veteran Member

If you have registered with DO NOT CALL and continue to receive marketing calls 30 days after registration, you can lodge a complaint with Australian Communications and Media Industry. There are serious consequences for telemarketers contravening this law. Kevin & Jan

jimricho · Guru

I too am on the Do Not Call register and generally it works fine. There are some exemptions listed on the donotcall website, and I think some of these have given up too, possibly because of the negative reaction.

Unfortunately these scammers we're talking about here are crooks (to state the obvious) and couldn't give stuff about Do Not Call registers.

When people phone for private information, treat them the same way as you would a complete stranger approaching you in the street and asking for similar information. If it's a bank or other institution that's phoned, treat with suspicion and phone back or use some other way to "sus" out their bona fides such as asking questions only a genuine caller would be able to answer. Banks etc will usually identify themselves with this sort of info anyway.

BobnBev · Senior Member

Fixing the van last week, and a chap walks up the drive and stats that he was from a power company that we used to be with and wanted to know why we changed.. I said because they where selling power much cheeper than your lot..Ok he said we will give you power much cheeper now..When I said if he was going to give it free I wasnt interested . It took him by surprise and didnt belive me ..He kept on for 10 mins trying to under stand why I wouldnt go back to his power company. I said you should have looked after me when I was with you ,now its too late..
He was not happy , so you can get them, Indian looking and sounding chaps at your house as well. Its more fun face to face.. Same with the other lot that come from time to time, .......No Im never rude or do I swear.... makeing out Ive got a big dog and try to call him works wonders....

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

Do not call register https://www.donotcall.gov.au/

DON'T FORGET you do need to re-register every 5 years

Landfall · Guru

We share our home phone number with our business.

When I get one of these calls I always ask them if "they want a driving lesson?" When they try and continue on with their speel, I interupt and ask them again, "Do you want a driving lesson?" When the answer is no, I then ask them why have they rung a driving school if they don't want a driving lesson, they must have the wrong number, GOODBYE!

My wife just tells them she is the secretary and she has no idea when the manager will be back because he is currently on holidays.

Dusty

jack biggles · Senior Member

jimricho wrote:

When people phone for private information, treat them the same way as you would a complete stranger approaching you in the street and asking for similar information. If it's a bank or other institution that's phoned, treat with suspicion and phone back or use some other way to "sus" out their bona fides such as asking questions only a genuine caller would be able to answer. Banks etc will usually identify themselves with this sort of info anyway.

Thats Excellent advice Jimricho, I refuse to discuss any such thing with anyone on the telephone about that sort of stuff. I always just ask for a reference number & tell them that I will head into the local branch about it.

It seems as if theres so many people out there willing to do the wrong thing by others, makes me cranky.

ChiChi1 · Guru

It makes us so distrustful of everyone. Not the Australian way.

Gerty Dancer · Guru

Good on you Dellie!

We had about 6 of those calls a few weeks ago, I was rude, I hung up on them, I shouted "Do not call this number again" and they still called the next day. So I blew a whistle... no more calls.

It really is a scam, has caught quite a lot of people apparently.

jules47 · The Happy Helper

Did you know you can also register your Mobile number on the "do not call" registery site - I have and I don't get any "nuisance" calls on home or mobile.

jimricho · Guru

Those who get the "News for Seniors" magazine from Centrelink can read about these scams on page 9 of the current issue. It makes mention of the "computer virus scam"

quote...

callers claim they suspect your computer
is infected and they need remote access to
check it. They pretend to run a scan and
report that your computer is infected. The
caller will try to convince you to purchase
anti-virus software to remove the infection.

end quote

there is more on this at New twist on computer error message/virus scams: joint warning

also, quote....

You can contact the ACCC on 1300 302 502 for more
information about scams or to report a scam, or you
can visit www.scamwatch.gov.au to find out about
the latest scams.

end quote

PS: for some time there's been an email doing the rounds stating that the government will be releasing all mobiles to telemarketers next month.

ACMA vigorously deny this but still does no harm to register it anyway, especially if the number is listed in the directory.

(note that the month is not specified, just next month, a deliberate ploy by the sick dweebs that concoct these rumours to keep the rumour alive)

-- Edited by jimricho on Monday 2nd of May 2011 07:03:09 AM

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

Here's another type of scam, I have had the same virus checker for 15-20 years on 3 computers, it stopped working last week so I phoned the 1300 number (CA Associates VET) only to be told two new ph numbers, when I phoned the next 1300 number I was told the problem needed a special tech support guy and I would have to pay $339 for two years service, I told them where to go and then emailed the original company, I was advised that 3 months ago they changed their tech support to iyogi and it was these guys that I phoned and was advise to pay, needless to say I now have a new virus program from Trend Micro