Just had one on phone for over 10 minutes before he hung up, took me his 1st sentence to suss him, took him 10 minutes to suss I had him Sussed.

brilliant!

He he - I've never had the opportunity and I would really enjoy it it if I had the time

I had one of those.
I told them I didn't have a computer at my current address.
They didnt know what to do then.

Yea well done - I was waiting for them to phone me and when they did I was just on my way out so couldn't string them along, when I said my computer was on Linux they hung up immediately - didn't even take the time to say goodbye Strangely enough my caller had an Irish accent.

I am sure I could make them hang on for an hour or more - to start with I could make booting up take ten minutes then have it loose power and have to reboot for another 10 minutes. And of course I am very hard of hearing so they will have to shout at me and I can shout back at them and misunderstand them, and if necessary i could swear like a trooper so could add that to the mix and of course when their instructions don't work and give a blue screen I could always re-boot for another 10 minutes.

I'm going to make up an effects tape a la Goons, so it will go like this -

Him : could you switch on your computer

Me: OK

Tape: sound of footsteps on wooden floor receding into the distance

sound of creaky door

more footsteps disappearing further into the distance

sound of key in door

creaky door

long pause

creaky door

sound of key in door

sound of distant footsteps approaching

creaky door

sound of footsteps approaching and stop

Me: OK it's switched on. What now ?

Him: Please log on to www.xxx........

Tape: as before:


Repeat until game palls

I can better that. 52 minutes and he got very angry with me and hung up! How rude

I did similar with one telling him that we had a bad line and making stupid static noises down the phone then saying that the computer is upstairs and I'll go and switch it on. I put the phone down and left it a bit then picked it up again and told him I'd switched it on what next. Open control panel, right I'll go and do that be back in a bit. I think he called me something rude in Urdu and hung up then.

I like the cold calls to sell you a kitchen at a discount price 'cos you'll feature in a magazine.

The premise is that they don't actually know who you are and that you are ALSO recording the call and all you need to from the is an ageement from them that they will actually pay your charges for the use of your name and photos of your house.

I had one on the go for about 30 mins squirming trying not to actually say yes, another one I'm sure I reduced to tears before the hung up. They REALLY don't like it if you immediately turn the tables on them.



Funny thing is I don't get many of them at all these days, must be at least a year since ......

I sussed this several years ago, and started unplugging the phone when I worked nights, or was in on my own.


Wife has given up with the landline too, took her longer than me, but the daily bullshat isnt worth it.



We now dont own a home telephone.

We kept getting those "virus" calls - first, we said that we didn't have a computer, which kept them quiet for a while. Then they kept ringing... so we let them go to the answer-phone. They kept ringing... we now have a call-blocking device fitted - anything that comes in as "number unavailable" gets cut off before it even rings.

The gadget also has the feature that when a cold-caller rings with a real number showing, we can press a button and that number will be blocked from that point on.

Call blocker

I don't like spending that sort of money to block unwanted calls - but BT and Plusnet weren't interested in solving the problem.

I had one going for ages telling him "computer says no"

He didn't get it what with being from azerbybeckistan, so I told him a message has just popped up that says your a liar.

He then hung up

kept one on for nearly an hour passed him round the household asked if he was on facebook what the person sitting next to him was called he was called Simon and he was from Delhi. The day before I had another call I straight away said I know its a scam mate her retorted with a bloody big one give me the number on your credit card and the 3 numbers on the back I mentioned he should go away in jerky movements then hung up.

My brothers mate has had some good ones, He just answers the phone and pretty much says nothing. He had one where they phone you up and ask you to press a number on the key pad (Which autherises them to take money from you which is charged to you phone bill) and he kept them on the line for over an hour doing nothing.

My nan gets those stupid computor ones but she doesn't have a computor. She told them they could come round and fix it if they could find it.