Scammers just stepped up a gear

[4String.]

if I'm on a simple hob when they phone I keep them going for as long as possible.

Not sure I'd want to drive your tractors, sounds like it might be uncomfortable.

Still, at least you have somewhere to warm your dinner up .

 

[Cobbler]

The longest I managed before terminal boredom set in was with a UK based operation trying to sell me a pre-paid Funeral Plan. That lastest about 20 minutes through to the second level of 'escalation' before I decided to concentrate on something and ended the call. That was 20 minutes less available to them to pursue the vulnerable. Just doing my bit for society.

I had a women flogging funeral plans recently
Her “have you thought about funeral insurance”
Me “I haven’t thought of dying just yet thank you”

 

[rtcosic]

God, I’m glad I’ve got one of those call blocker phones. Nobody you don’t want gets through, it’s brilliant

I have call filtering on the landline, so I get none of these calls there. I regard the mobile number as 'disposable' and where-ever possible I cite that one on-line. It is then very easy to select 'block' on a number if needed. A bit pointless as the scammers use some kind of spoofing software to display false numbers. They seem to be making more schoolboy errors these days such as displaying a mobile number then trying to sell me a new electricity tariff.
I'm getting fewer and fewer calls though and I rather miss the opportunity to mess with them.
As well as 'sucker lists' I wonder if 'don't waste your time' lists of numbers are circulating amongst the scammers?

 

[Migmac]

I have call filtering on the landline, so I get none of these calls there. I regard the mobile number as 'disposable' and where-ever possible I cite that one on-line. It is then very easy to select 'block' on a number if needed. A bit pointless as the scammers use some kind of spoofing software to display false numbers. They seem to be making more schoolboy errors these days such as displaying a mobile number then trying to sell me a new electricity tariff.
I'm getting fewer and fewer calls though and I rather miss the opportunity to mess with them.
As well as 'sucker lists' I wonder if 'don't waste your time' lists of numbers are circulating amongst the scammers?

I don’t miss them, never thought about a don’t waste your time list. Might switch our call blocker off for a day or two see what happens

 

[Ashley Burton]

What I want to know is how I rarely get bothered?!

Are you going on some dodgy websites & giving out your details

 

[Robotstar5]

I had a women flogging funeral plans recently
Her “have you thought about funeral insurance”
Me “I haven’t thought of dying just yet thank you”

Her: "do you realise a funeral costs over £5000 these days"
Me: "not my problem, Ill be dead"

They usually give up

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

The best email scam I had was one where they emailed me one of my own passwords ...it was an older password but scary to see a password in an email.

They got the password from the big data breech about 10 years ago on a site I used.

Then they added a load of blackmail text...and claimed they had hacked my pc.

I imagine quite a few would fall for that one...especially if they reuse passwords everywhere...which I don't ...good scam though. I know of at least 1 IT guy who had a meltdown over the same scam email...good one to watch out for.

 

[Fraserb]

Not sure I'd want to drive your tractors, sounds like it might be uncomfortable.

Still, at least you have somewhere to warm your dinner up .

Dam autocorrect.

 

[Cobbler]

Her: "do you realise a funeral costs over £5000 these days"
Me: "not my problem, Ill be dead"

They usually give up

I told her the family was going to take me up the tip in a black plastic bag., she said “you can’t do that” my answer “doesn’t say that bodies are on the prohibited list”

 

[fizzy]

I love winding all these idiots up - keep them on the phone for ages.
They don't stick around long though when you tell them you are running Linux!

 

[ronan]

Her: "do you realise a funeral costs over £5000 these days"
Me: "not my problem, Ill be dead"

They usually give up

Another bloody racket, how can it cost 5k to dig a hole in the muck and put a body in it in a chipboard coffin ? Gangsters.

 

[4String.]

Another bloody racket, how can it cost 5k to dig a hole in the muck and put a body in it in a chipboard coffin ? Gangsters.

In case anyone doesn't know, it's perfectly legal to be buried in your own back garden. Assuming that you've expired, obviously .

 

[TechnicAl]

In case anyone doesn't know, it's perfectly legal to be buried in your own back garden. Assuming that you've expired, obviously .

Fred West got done for it

 

[Arc Tourist]

There appears to be no end to their ingenuity …………………………………………...

Inevitably, folk must be falling for their scams of they'd not continue. I also doubt the worth of reporting them, what can the Authorities in this country [apart from info sharing] do against operators in the sub continent or elsewhere? …………………………………....

In the American Old West, they used to put a Bounty on murderers bank robbers and thieves.
Wouldn't it be great if Governments put out a worldwide open contract bounty on scammers ?

 

[Arc Tourist]

Her: "do you realise a funeral costs over £5000 these days"
Me: "not my problem, Ill be dead"

They usually give up

Reminds me of one of my Dads old sayings. " If they don't bury you for love, they'll bury you for stink. "

 

[Cobbler]

In case anyone doesn't know, it's perfectly legal to be buried in your own back garden. Assuming that you've expired, obviously .

Fred West got done for it

Big thing around here if you wanted your garden dug over, tell the police “Fred West laid my patio”

 

[Ruffian]

Had the generic paypal scam.
But dont have PayPal with that address. Lol

 

[Fraserb]

Another bloody racket, how can it cost 5k to dig a hole in the muck and put a body in it in a chipboard coffin ? Gangsters.

I'll dig the hole for well under 5k.

 

[ronan]

In the American Old West, they used to put a Bounty on murderers bank robbers and thieves.
Wouldn't it be great if Governments put out a worldwide open contract bounty on scammers ?

Nigeria would be inundated with bounty hunters.

 

[ronan]

I'll dig the hole for well under 5k.

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OI, i am not that fat, to need a hole that size !