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« on: 09 November 2012, 01:36:56 PM »
I'm sure that we've all had some gimboid from India phoning to try con us into giving him control of our home computer so he can cripple it, and siphon off our bank details, but how do others here deal with such calls?
Tempting as it is at times to simply tell them to FOAD, I tend to take a more surreal line, examples thus far being :
1. Telling the caller (in English) that I don't speak English, and continuing the conversation in the same vein until they get confused and hang up
2. Pretending to slightly mis-hear and mis-interpret everything they say ("what do you mean, open Windows - it's minus 4 here!") until they get fed-up
3. Going along with everything they say and making random keyboard noises, until they ask a question like "and what does the message on the screen say?", to which I respond "It says - his name is NOT Nigel, he ISN'T from Microsoft and he's trying to steal your money".
4. Going about whatever it was I was doing when interrupted (usually cooking or eating) and keeping up a running commentary until they get bored with trying to ask questions I'm not going to answer.
Sometimes I'm just too busy, and I'm afraid it's FOAD time again, but when there is considerable entertainment value to be had when time allows, and at least it has kept the bu99er away from someone more gullible for a while.
So - anyone else got a novel and amusing way to deal with them?