Is this legit you think?

[Oddball]

Did you see the letter that was on Barclays heading paper , telling the 'customer' to return his/her credit card to Moulten Keynes (yes Moulten ) because there was a bad batch of chips which could burst into flame in your wallet /pants and burn you horribly ?

Bar stewards

[Gazjam]

Had some fun with the "We are Microsoft and detected a virus on your computer" phone call the other week...

Told them I ran Linux...

[Primalsea]

I get quite a few from Amazon telling me to click the link and sign in in order to verify my account.

[Firebottle]

Had some fun with the "We are Microsoft and detected a virus on your computer" phone call the other week...

Told them I ran Linux...

I had the same but didn't tell I was running Linux for quite a while. I asked him what version I was using and guess what ... he couldn't tell me.

I told him he was full of sh1t at the end,

[walpurgis]

Had some fun with the "We are Microsoft and detected a virus on your computer" phone call the other week.

I get those now and then and the 'market research' ones. I just tell them to fuck off!

[Stryder5]

I get BT telling me someone's hacking my internet connection, moved from BT 9 months ago.

[struth]

Had some fun with the "We are Microsoft and detected a virus on your computer" phone call the other week...

Told them I ran Linux...

My son gets those... ive had it now and then too. he kinda confuses the *--* out of them when he tells them truthfully he doesnt have a computer.... then when they are trying to fumble about he also adds he doesnt have the internet either....and he doesnt

[mightymonoped]

My son gets those... ive had it now and then too. he kinda confuses the *--* out of them when he tells them truthfully he doesnt have a computer.... then when they are trying to fumble about he also adds he doesnt have the internet either....and he doesnt

Confusing them is definitely the most entertaining option.

I like to put them on the back foot right from the opening sentence.

I ask them in an enthusiastic voice...”Oh....are you phoning about the Dragons?.....”

Usually followed by a pregnant pause, then a phone hangup at their end.


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[walpurgis]

Next time I get a dodgy phone call, I think I may say 'you are speaking to the national crime agency fraud division' and see what the response may be.

[Pigmy Pony]

My next nuisance call will go something like this:

Hello?
Hello can I speak to Mr. Stephen Callaghan?
Mr. Callaghan is asleep right now, I'm his carer. Can I help you?
It's Mr. Stephen Callaghan, can I speak to Mr. Stephen Callaghan?
Look, I'm not waking him up, it's taken me an hour to get him down.

My last one, where I tell the caller that Mr. Callaghan recently died, and I'm a family member worked well, but I've been told to stop it as I'm tempting providence or something.