Awesome BBC reporter scam baiting

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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 5:22 pm

Funny as hell

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9637000/9637033.stm

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 6:16 pm

I love it when he gets offended and basically starts calling him a joker

Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 9:36 am

I heard that on R4 too. A lot of call centres are coming back to the UK from India and there is a mountain of personal info swilling around, with nowhere to go so is ending up in the hands of scammers.

I get at least one call from Barclays a month asking to review my account and services. Same two (a man and a woman) asking me for details and I give them both the same same fake details. They don't even remember that they've called me ten-twenty times already.

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 2:50 am

Hi LG,

I will never be able to accept that scammers like that have the attitude that they are "working" and we baiters waste their time.

The scammer was totally indignant that he was "having his work time wasted".
Good stuff LG. Its always good to read or hear a rant. It gives us some idea of what pain lads suffer when they deal with a baiter.

Cheers

Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 8:56 am

I never get random calls like that, clearly my home phone is not on many lists, which I guess is a good thing.

I did enjoy this and how offended the scammer was Laughing

Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 1:02 am

When I get similar calls like this it's usually an excuse for me to go into ad-lib baiting mode.
Ask 'em how they got the details, my number, who they work for etc

Then, when following his instructions I go and put the kettle on while "uhuh"-ing, "oh"-ing, and "sorry, could you repeat that?" as it boils.
When it's time to actually pour, I tell him "the PC has just crashed and is that serious?" and put the phone down for a minute while I 'reboot'.

Inevitably we get to the golden instruction to input either 'evntvwr' or 'prefetch_unwanted' in the command line.

You can almost hear the excitement in the scammers voice as he thinks "got one!"

Then I tell them I'm enjoying the coffee I've just made, would like to drink it in peace and would he mind awfully p*****g off and leaving me alone.

Is that bad of me? Mr. Green

Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 7:55 am

I've had this happen four times and I've just told them either I've had no problems whatsoever with my computer or that I know this is some ploy to access my computer.

In the first case, they just don't believe me; in the second, theyn act all hurt and bewildered.

Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 7:08 pm

I too get this but after trying the **** off, I decided to have a bit of FUN. Interrupt at the earliest opportunity to ask a question - 'what colour is your underwear?' Obviously done in a very pervy tone of voice with any attempt by the scammer to get back on script is deflected back to his underwear. The reaction was shock and outrage and so funny I don't know how I managed to stop laughing.

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