Getting daily phone calls for last week from "Microsoft", hang up as soon as I say I do not have a computer.

Today was from "BT" about my internet connection ! Again as soon as I said no such connection hung up.

Coming out of the UAE on Tel number 0097059007.

Indian/Pakistanis with lots of background call centre type noise so this is corporate scale fraud. FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
FL2 MY13 TD4 GS Current

We use cordless phones throughout the house with number recognition display. Any overseas number or private caller that comes up on the screen doesn't get answered on the basis that if important the caller will leave a message - they never do. Furthermore by answering the call you are indicating that it's a "live" number that will be sold on to some other scumbag outfit based in the Indian sub continent

Our provider is talk talk and you can activate "last caller barred" by dialling 14258.. Should that number call again they just get the engaged tone.

These scumbags use all sorts to get either control of your computer or your credit card details. OK for most but you can imagine some elderly folk getting conned and as Yorky says, it must prove very profitable as they employ call centres to do their dirty work.  MY 09 GS manual in Lago Grey, Wood Co arm rest and side bumper strips - now sold.

MY 15 SD4 SE Auto Orkney Grey with colour coded Bumper Door Mouldings

I have had a few showing up as local call numbers but turn out to be Indian call centres. 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
5 x FL2 4 manual + 1 auto
Now Discovery Sport P250 MHEV SE

You will find that the "local number" isn't, the original area code is but the first two or three numbers of of the last six digits aren't in the normal sequence, for example in the area I lived in the UK 01436 the next sequence should be 67, 84, 81 or 83 but the fake number is always 4* so easily recognised. my PC is slightly to the right of Genghis
2012 HSE SD4 In Orkney Grey now gone, best car ever.

We have a BT8500 system with built-in call intercept. Only numbers in my phone book get through. All others have to give name and wait for me to accept call. Outcome? Simply NO spam or unwanted calls. Result!

Bob 10MY (Sept 09) TD4 HSE Auto in Stornoway Grey (Now Gone)

08 FL2 TD4 SE Manual in Rimini Red (Now Gone)

Ditto, This BT system is very good

I get them from time to time at work. I just play with them for a while. I always give the same story. Some get annoyed, some have a laugh. Here's one I recorded:  Past: FL2 TD4 HSE Auto
Evoque SD4 Dynamic Lux Auto
Present: Audi A3 S Line.

If I am doing nothing I often string the Microsoft ones along on the basis that whilst they are wasting time on me they are not ripping off some little old lady somewhere. It's a sort of civic duty, but eventually I get bored and tell them f k off and a proper job instead of trying to con people.

Now perhaps if they were really clever they would say they were from LandRover about a problem with your vehicle and they might have more credibility.  3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
5 x FL2 4 manual + 1 auto
Now Discovery Sport P250 MHEV SE

Yep, the BT system is superb, no more nuisance calls...switched it off for a short period because I was waiting for a call from an unknown number...and as soon as I did they started again. Well worth the small investment.

dunkley201 wrote:

We have a BT8500 system with built-in call intercept. Only numbers in my phone book get through. All others have to give name and wait for me to accept call. Outcome? Simply NO spam or unwanted calls. Result!

Bob

Steve D I enjoyed that

[quote="Yorky Bob

Indian/Pakistanis with lots of background call centre type noise so this is corporate scale fraud.[/quote]

No. This is part of the scam. The background noise is to convince the victim that they are talking to someone from a genuine call centre. Thus more likely to dupe someone who isn't savvy into give up credit card numbers/pins or any other details they need in order to gain access to a bank account. There are never usually more than a handful of people involved in any one scam. Sometimes only 2 people in 1 room with an auto dialer .

Reminds me of the publican a good few years ago who offered the services of a telephone in a soundproof(ish) booth with a recording of typewriters, telephones ringing, and general hubub as a background. The pub was called "The Office" so no lies needed to be told in calls to waiting wives. Everyone can spread it - Anyone can catch it. Stay home - the life you save can be your own!

I used to get a lot of accident compensation calls so I used to string them along with a load of nonsense, never directly answering their question but turning it back on them making out them as the other driver who was at fault and owed me big compensation. Can be quite good fun and the time they waste with you and with them getting annoyed keeps them away from some other innocent person for a short while. I don't get those calls anymore, shame as they were good fun.

J

I've said I was decapitated a time or two, that stops them in their tracks

Put phone on speaker and let them rabbit on, as you say keeps them from annoying others and wastes there time.