Indian scammers!!!

Until about four weeks ago when I upgraded to Eircom's eFibre I had only read/heard about this crap. The first call was from a very amiable fellow. I have caller ID and knew from the readout and the Indian drawl that there was summat dodgy so I hung up.

Got another half an hour ago. He was so panicked I thought he was stuck in a burning building. Apparently there is a problem with my router creating lots of errors and slowing down the gigabytes of my broadband! ****ing classic

When he wanted me to run the Event Viewer I got bored and hung up and went back to the sun. Eircom are partially responsible for this crap since they started using all these Indians for their CS.

Eircom gave me a number to ring, the National Consumer Agency, and their sage advice was to hang up on these blighters! :rolleyes: I was trying to help them by telling them it must have something to do with me getting eFibre but she sounded bored.

I have the latest blighter's number on my caller ID.....anything I can do to stop these c*nts? (I'm not ringing India to abuse them!)

allen175

Just ignore them, or drag out the call for as long as possible taking the piss out of them. eircom always ring from blocked numbers.

BowWow

I always say "I'm sorry, I don't understand your call as I don't have a computer" - they then hang up immeadiately.....

iceberger

This happened me couple years back when I bought a Dell PC from Dell.ie. It was only after buying the PC that these calls started.

My wife answered most and trolled them alot. I think they honestly believe they are there to help.

red_bairn

When my dad gets calls from TeleMarketing he says he'll only do surveys if a cheque is sent out to his house and he names a price.

Just troll them or make a recording and leave the telephone by a speaker. :P

byrnefm

BowWow wrote: »

I always say "I'm sorry, I don't understand your call as I don't have a computer" - they then hang up immeadiately.....

My wife did the same this week when they called - twice - and hung up immediately as well!

murphaph

If you really want to confuse them say "I don't have a phone".

dxhound2005

Deleted User wrote: »

Until about four weeks ago when I upgraded to Eircom's eFibre I had only read/heard about this crap. The first call was from a very amiable fellow. I have caller ID and knew from the readout and the Indian drawl that there was summat dodgy so I hung up.

Got another half an hour ago. He was so panicked I thought he was stuck in a burning building. Apparently there is a problem with my router creating lots of errors and slowing down the gigabytes of my broadband! ****ing classic

When he wanted me to run the Event Viewer I got bored and hung up and went back to the sun. Eircom are partially responsible for this crap since they started using all these Indians for their CS.

Eircom gave me a number to ring, the National Consumer Agency, and their sage advice was to hang up on these blighters! :rolleyes: I was trying to help them by telling them it must have something to do with me getting eFibre but she sounded bored.

I have the latest blighter's number on my caller ID.....anything I can do to stop these c*nts? (I'm not ringing India to abuse them!)

I do not have fibre yet and I started getting these calls about two years ago. I have Eircom broadband for about 10 years so I don't think your fibre upgrade is the reason for the calls. Nor the fact that Eircom employ some Indians. These calls are happening worldwide. The advice you got from the NCA was indeed sage, just hang up and nothing bad will happen.

Otherwise if you have time on your hands you can waste their time. There are plenty of videos on You Tube showing how to do that.

Baneblade

Deleted User wrote: »

Eircom are partially responsible for this crap since they started using all these Indians for their CS.

thats a nice measured piece of logical deduction there :rolleyes:

Been getting these for a while and dont have eircom.

Most of these types of scams involve getting a phone book and ringing all the numbers and playing the odds that most people will have what you are basing the call on.

layviae

i read somewhere ages ago of a man who strung them along for ages,
when they called he first told them he had to turn on the pc, put the phone down for 5mins while he made a cup of tea, next he said that it was turned on and asked what to do, they told him to run some programme, he asked how to do it, he got them to dumb it down so much that they had to explain how to press the start button,
it went something like this
him: wheres the start button
operator: on the left hand side
him: i cant see it what does it look like
operator: its round and has a windows symbol
him: all i see is the apple
they hung up and he hasnt got a call since

MonkeyDoo

I really don't like giving details abroad to India. Why can't they hire local Irish people. It's giving Eircom a bad name.

mossie

I have had may of these calls but one in particular stands out in my memory.

An Indian guy called saying he was from techbuddha.com and was calling about my "windows Xp, vista or macintosh computer", which apparently I had registered with them, as there was a problem with it. When I asked him to be more specific about my computer type, saying he should know what type of OS I had if I really had registered, he got very defensive saying I should look at their website if I didn't believe him. There is a very professional looking website at this address but of course when I put techbuddha into google I get a long list of scam warnings, so I told him this and hung up. The surprise was he actually called back straight away and challenged me to "prove it is a scam, just look at our website, it's real". I pointed out that a website proves nothing, and that it was up to him to prove it was genuine, not up to me to prove it was not and hung up again. He called back again three or four more times, but each time I answered and hung up immediately and in the end he stopped.

I haven't had any more calls from this lot but they certainly seemed more professional, and persistent that the average. It would certainly be easy to be taken in if you were less than cautious.

jobeenfitz

So whats the chatch? What are these callers after? Are they looking for monney?

Calibos

The want you to download malware and also get your CC details if they can.

I got into a great expletive slagging match with the last one that called a few weeks ago.

#Fcuk off you fcuking scamming bastard!!

#No, Fcuk you, you son of a mother fcuking whore

#Kiss my hairy Irish ass you Bangalore Bollix

etc etc

This went on for about a minute till he hung up. Imagine his expletive laden responses in the voice of Apu from the simpsons and you'll understand why I ended up rolling around on the floor laughing my ass off.

finnteme

I once got call like this aswell, and we spent 15 mins to look Windows Start button from my computer, after 15 mins i asked, if my linux os really has this kind of button? That was end of that call.. never heard from them after that

IrishStuff09

When the call,answer with "Hello 911, what is your emergency?".

Cabaal

Enough of this crap,