Phone scammers
ShepherdsDog @ Thu Apr 19, 2018 8:00 am
1 151 939 2164 is calling about a Microsoft issue. A simple 'Chung my lorda, lagoo tanoo korda.' Works wonders.
N_Fiddledog @ Thu Apr 19, 2018 9:46 am
'Chung my lorda, lagoo tanoo korda.' ![[?]](./images/smilies/confused.gif "Confused")
You got me. What is that? Best guess would be you're speaking Somali.
Ever seen this one though?
Phone Number Lookup:
https://800notes.com/
N_Fiddledog @ Thu Apr 19, 2018 10:05 am
The one I get the most lately is the heavy accent claiming he's a focus group but it turns out he's wanting to buy Canadian property.
Then there's the heavy accents that tell me I won a big prize.
I had a good conversation with a variation on one of the last type.
Ring ring...
Me: Hello.
Nigerian Prince: Somebody call you to tell you, you win big prize?
Me: Yeah, apparently I won a million dollars or something. I told him he could keep it. Why? Doesn't he want it? Tell you what...you keep it.
Smart-ass Nigerian: I already rich.
Me: Yeah, I think we both know how you got rich. Click.
ShepherdsDog @ Thu Apr 19, 2018 10:16 am
It's a Punjabi rhyme.
DrCaleb @ Fri Apr 20, 2018 6:53 am
$1:
Here’s why you’ve been receiving calls from Yemen
Troy Striethorst doesn’t know anybody in Yemen, so he was a bit surprised to receive more than 20 missed calls from a number belonging to the small Middle Eastern republic.
He is one of several Edmonton residents who have received calls originating from Yemen this month. Many took to Reddit to detail how they were being spammed by the calls.
“I’ve gotten three from Yemen and two from Somalia today,” wrote one user. “So frustrating.”
Another user warned people about picking up the phone, saying a similar scam occurred a few years ago, where people would rack up charges from dialing bogus numbers that would ding them for calling premium-rate lines.
In his case, Striethorst says he would pick up and the caller would almost immediately hang up. If he called back, he was put on hold for a long time.
He reached out to Telus to complain about the calls and was told the company is investigating.
In an email statement to StarMetro, Telus says they are aware of the spam, referred to as wangiri – a Japanese term that means “one ring and hang up.”
According to the Telus website, victims of the fraud will receive a call from an overseas number that will ring once or twice -- or just long enough for the number to appear on their caller ID.
“These numbers are premium-rate overseas phone numbers that charge high rates on top of your normal long-distance rate. The intent is for you to return the call,” said the website. “Once the scammer has you on the line, they will try to make you stay on the call for as long as possible to run up the charges.”
Troy Striethorst doesn’t know anybody in Yemen, so he was a bit surprised to receive more than 20 missed calls from a number belonging to the small Middle Eastern republic.
He is one of several Edmonton residents who have received calls originating from Yemen this month. Many took to Reddit to detail how they were being spammed by the calls.
“I’ve gotten three from Yemen and two from Somalia today,” wrote one user. “So frustrating.”
Another user warned people about picking up the phone, saying a similar scam occurred a few years ago, where people would rack up charges from dialing bogus numbers that would ding them for calling premium-rate lines.
In his case, Striethorst says he would pick up and the caller would almost immediately hang up. If he called back, he was put on hold for a long time.
He reached out to Telus to complain about the calls and was told the company is investigating.
In an email statement to StarMetro, Telus says they are aware of the spam, referred to as wangiri – a Japanese term that means “one ring and hang up.”
According to the Telus website, victims of the fraud will receive a call from an overseas number that will ring once or twice -- or just long enough for the number to appear on their caller ID.
“These numbers are premium-rate overseas phone numbers that charge high rates on top of your normal long-distance rate. The intent is for you to return the call,” said the website. “Once the scammer has you on the line, they will try to make you stay on the call for as long as possible to run up the charges.”
https://www.thestar.com/edmonton/2018/0 ... yemen.html
herbie @ Fri Apr 20, 2018 10:14 am
You look at your landline phone when it rings, the name is all gibberish characters, the caller's area code or exchange number starts with a "1"....
As if!.................
it stops after TWO rings....
Wondering why I even still have a landline. Other than the portion of the bill is negligible compared to the Internet and cellular parts....
raydan @ Fri Apr 20, 2018 4:22 pm
No phone, no phone scams... simple enough.
DrCaleb @ Mon Apr 23, 2018 6:08 am
But how am I supposed to know when I win a free Marott vacation if I don't have a phone?
BRAH @ Mon Apr 23, 2018 7:14 am
herbie herbie:
You look at your landline phone when it rings, the name is all gibberish characters, the caller's area code or exchange number starts with a "1"....
As if!.................
it stops after TWO rings....
Wondering why I even still have a landline. Other than the portion of the bill is negligible compared to the Internet and cellular parts....
As if!.................
it stops after TWO rings....
Wondering why I even still have a landline. Other than the portion of the bill is negligible compared to the Internet and cellular parts....
What's a landline? I'm sure you've heard that before.
When the Canada Revenue Agency starts calling your work in a foreign accent demanding to be paid someone's in trouble.
herbie @ Wed Jul 25, 2018 1:13 pm
OLD PEOPLE.
So you service their computer and tell them NEVER AGAIN respond to those phone calls and if something pops up on their computer it's a fake web page, call and I'll walk them through how to reset the browser.
Five days later, that's exactly what they do.
As I'm working the guy tells me how clever he was telling the guy with the foreign accent he thought he wasn't paying a goddam red cent. Ha ha!
That was after HE NEVER LET THEM ON HIS COMPUTER - Logmein just appeared magically on his desktop, he was locked into a reboot loop and couldn't access his apps or files. Windows 10 does that all by itself, right? It's because his antivirus wasn't good enough, right? It's that goddam Telus that lets hackers into your computer, right?
And these guys wanted $499 US to fix it, the scum.
What? You want $75 cuz you fixed it? It only took you 2 days who do you think you are a fucking dentist?
BartSimpson @ Wed Jul 25, 2018 1:19 pm
Here's something topical...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/busi ... sions.html
"With stiff sentences for 21 conspirators last week in the United States and a round of indictments in India, the Justice Department says it has broken up what appeared to be the nation’s first large-scale, multinational telephone fraud operation."
herbie @ Wed Jul 25, 2018 1:31 pm
Just read how the scammers faked the caller ID of the Richmond PD, told a girl her Dad was in jail and she had to bail him out with several thousand dollars worth of Google Play cards.
Which she did.
There's no cure for stupid...
DrCaleb @ Thu Jul 26, 2018 5:13 am
http://www.canadaka.net/news/105951-24- ... escam-case
CharlesAnthony @ Thu Jul 26, 2018 5:55 am
"No." followed by an awkward silence usually works for me.
"No. I can not afford it. I am broke." tends to mess up the flow chart leading to more awkward silence.
DrCaleb @ Thu Jul 26, 2018 6:29 am
I like to get personal. "Does your mother know you bully people and steal their money?"