Unsolicited calls

Krispie

Just had another call from my "personal" computer technican in India. Just letting me know I have a virus:eek:. It's grand as he was going to fix it for me.

So sick of them but this time I answered a question or 2 as if interested and then asked him to hang on and got my kids bedtime music soother. Put it to the phone for 2 minutes (Twinkle twinkle little star) and could hear him swearing down the line. Has rang back a couple of times since. Dont think he's too happy.:o

Best way the fine residents of AH have dealt with unsolicited callers?

Hande hoche!

Politely refuse their offer and put down the phone.

chin_grin

Krispie wrote: »

...and could hear him swearing down the line

By deduction you know a few Indian curse words. Just say them to him the next time he rings. Also I thought this sh!t had stopped by now?!

smash

When they ask for your IP address etc, just call out random numbers and say you're certain that's what's on the screen.

Once they get frustrated tell them the virus must be mutating, then make lots of noise and tell them it has evolved and your PC has transformed and is trying to kill you.

Then scream, bang some pots n stuff and hang up.

FatherLen

get an air horn and deafen the fucker.

The_Kew_Tour

Tell them that the next time we play them at Cricket we will stuff them up their arse.

Then just hang up.

Kerrigooney

Try this.

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

Shenshen

Krispie wrote: »

Just had another call from my "personal" computer technican in India. Just letting me know I have a virus:eek:. It's grand as he was going to fix it for me.

So sick of them but this time I answered a question or 2 as if interested and then asked him to hang on and got my kids bedtime music soother. Put it to the phone for 2 minutes (Twinkle twinkle little star) and could hear him swearing down the line. Has rang back a couple of times since. Dont think he's too happy.:o

Best way the fine residents of AH have dealt with unsolicited callers?

By telling them that none of us in this house use Windows (no lie, husband is an Apple-addict, and I run Ubuntu on my machines), then hang up.
I usually hung up while they were still talking about the virus message they received form "our main computer".
I don't think any of us here will ever be able to discourage them from ringing again, unfortunately there's a huge mass of computer-illiterates out there who will fall for this scam.

Jester252

go Liam Neeson on their ass

Jesus Shaves

Make pig noises at them, that gets at them for some reason

Kerrigooney

Jester252 wrote: »

go Liam Neeson on their ass

Look 2 posts up.