Is your computer running slow ?

Is your PC fixed now?

Tell him no point in phoning me as I don't have any Microsoft products - thanks. 

I normaly have to ring BT to get some crap.

I dont use windoz.

Do they ring often ?

Are you sure that he is not someone who is trying to pull your leg?

It's a common scam. Dave, Bob, and others with suspiciously Indian accents call and offer to fix my PC. All I have to do is download a piece of their software and that will fix it all.

Sadly there are some folk who don't realise it's all crap. The husband of a friend of my wife fell for it and had to have his PC rebuilt.

People who fall for this aren't always idiots. They're more often just naive.

We get a call from these sorts of Clowns about once every 3/4 months.

3 calls in a single nite i think is very rare. I dont as a rule use foul language on the phone,but the 3rd guy just pushed me that bit to far and i lost it.

Like most people we are registered with the TPS and as a result most half descent firms around never call.

Mista H

PS  Gonna ring my friend(the Arsenal STH) who lives round the corner from you this morning to see how he is and to ask him what he thinks of RVP. That should turn the air Blue.

mista h this is a scam, it has been reported on the news recently. Best to just hang up,but I take your point about telling him to f off.

I sometimes get calls from India asking if I want a grant for loft insulation. I usually ask them to hold while I get a pen then place the phone next to the radio until they get fed up and hang up. We're also with the TPS but calls from outside the UK are not regulated.

My Panasonic dect phone has a useful feature where you can program it to ignore certain numbers. The phone display will flash on an incoming barred number but does not ring. Unfortunately, the Indian call centre calls display as "unavailable" so can't be barred but the feature is useful for pest callers where the number is displayed.

The last one I had I answered something like

"...yeah it's a lemon, i've had no end of problems. About time you called. When are you coming round to fix it?"

"Err...Vot?"

"This piece of shit computer. I'm fed up with it, When are you coming?"

"Vell ve can fix for you now over phone."

"Nope. No good. I want someone right here right now so I can tell them what I think. Better still bring a new one with them"

"Err, if you can give me..."

"Nope no good. Right son, you've had your chance, what's your name again?"

"Err.." Cue chatter in the background, getting a bit more excitable. And he hung up! Cheeky bastard.

Well known scam but what's less well known is that it's biggest success has been with Mac owners as they're more likely to believe their machines are invincible whilst simultaneously believing that anything that does happen wl be major and that Apple would contact them about it. Sigh

Lots of nonsenses! Sigh 

Evidence for this? 

Regards,

"Offended Mac Owner" 

However the Mac does not have the Start button on the screen and so one could not follow the instructions from the sub continent. However it does annoy the caller when I say that I cannot see a Start button at the bottom left of the screen, only a face. Even had the caller get his supervisor followed by a disconnect. The longer you can hold on to them the less people they can call and annoy

Hello Mike

I think you may have been on holiday,as i got no reply from you regarding a post i did a few weeks back.

I noticed on your profile you own some interesting speakers. i 4 one would be very interested to know more about them. Perhaps you would oblige either within this post or maybe start a new post in the Hi- Fi section.

Thanks

Mista H

Hello Mike

Its in the Hi-fi section,goes back to July,but i have just given it a Bump so it now back to the top of the tree.

Mista H

This makes a lot of senses.