How can one stop these people? - Page 2

MattT · #21 12-10-2015, 05:44 PM

Get a real computer.....an Apple

Never had anyone from windows or whatever ring me....

What is windows?

FlashDrive (Poppy) · #22 12-10-2015, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by MattT

Get a real computer.....an Apple

Profanity will not be tolerated .....

KISSMAD (Bruce) · #23 12-10-2015, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Terry B

Never had one of these calls. I have had a silent number for years.

How do you hear it ring?

LewisM · #24 12-10-2015, 06:06 PM

had a silent number since I got my first phone. Anyone important knows my number. To top that off, we haven't even had a home number connected since 2009. Is there any use these days??? Regardless, we are also on the Do Not Ring system - not that it helps in this case.

Matt is right - when they call, just say you have Apple. There ya go, good bye. All over.

Speaking of annoying scammers/canvasers - Jehovah's or Mormons. We can see who is ringing the door bell from our balcomeys. If I am feeling lazy, I will shout out something to them in Russian and ignore them. If they try again, I will say something that sounds more rude

If I am bored and feeling playful, I will usually answer the door either with "Shalom Aleichem" or "La il laha il Allah, Muhammad a rasool Allah". Interestingly, the Jewish usually throws them more than the Arabic!

Exfso (Peter) · #25 12-10-2015, 06:06 PM

Terry, I used to have a silent number, and Telstra in their infinite wisdom cancelled it without my input. This woman today wanted to argue with me when I told her there was no such thing as Windows technical department making outbound calls. Her words were "now listen to me" well that fired me up and after I told her to go and do "you know what", I then hung up.These clowns must have a death wish I reckon. I have tried all the usual responses ranging from I don't have a computer to I run a Mac and all the threats regarding police etc, it is just water off a duck's back.

MattT · #26 12-10-2015, 06:13 PM

Change to Optus? Have been with them since they started in this great country of ours....other than that maybe pretend to be a mad Russian, sorry Lewis, have worked with enough of them and can do the accent perfectly....lots of fun!

Paul Haese · #27 12-10-2015, 06:25 PM

Pete, I have a range of methods of dealing with these germs.

BTW being on the do not call register does not make any difference. We get calls once or twice a week and we are on the register.

So as to strategies. Answer phone, hear start of spiel and then say you are scammers and hang up. Or wait for them to start talking and then burb very loudly in the phone, or the other make a noise from the other end. You might as well entertain yourself I reckon. You could call scan via an answering machine too, or start singing into the phone. Put on some loud music and leave the phone near the speakers. You could play along with them and then tell them after a while that the computer is either an Apple, not turned on, or you got lost with the instructions and could they start again. There are endless ways to entertaining yourself. I think answering the phone and walking off is the best way. Leave the phone on and after a while you can hear them ranting and raving. Highly amusing. If they are dumb enough to ring my place, I think I ought to be able to provide a little bit of torture back.

Exfso (Peter) · #28 12-10-2015, 07:05 PM

Yeah Paul, have tried all that stuff, nothing seems to work, they are like flies in the outback, they just keep coming back. Might have to build some sort of electronic device to provide real kick butt feedback and turn their ears to mush...
Actually a really powerful umpires whistle should achieve a similar result when blown into a telephone microphone....

thunderchildobs · #29 12-10-2015, 07:11 PM

Depending on my mood, as soon as they start talking, i say
"Australian Federal Police - Fraud Squad how can i help you".
Click.

sheeny (Al) · #30 12-10-2015, 08:47 PM

I don't know about the "Do not call register" not being worthwhile... I am on it, and when I get a call such as this, I immediately inform them that I am on the do not call register, and I want to speak to their supervisor, or ask how did you get my number, etc... "click" every time.

It doesn't guarantee you won't get a call, but it does slow down the call rates. I can tell when my number expires off the Do Not Call register - the frequency of calls noticeably increases, which reminds me to renew my listing. I still think its worthwhile being on the register.

Al.

BeanerSA (Paul) · #31 12-10-2015, 09:31 PM

I haven't had a home phone line for years. That stopped the calls.

GrahamL · #32 12-10-2015, 09:34 PM

Tell them Interpol has requested you log this call so it can be tracked to its origin , had a few just go completely silent and one who just lost it
big time

PCH (Paul) · #33 12-10-2015, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by sheeny

I don't know about the "Do not call register" not being worthwhile... I am on it, and when I get a call such as this, I immediately inform them that I am on the do not call register, and I want to speak to their supervisor, or ask how did you get my number, etc... "click" every time.

It doesn't guarantee you won't get a call, but it does slow down the call rates. I can tell when my number expires off the Do Not Call register - the frequency of calls noticeably increases, which reminds me to renew my listing. I still think its worthwhile being on the register.

Al.

Yeah Al,

But that's not because they're scared of getting caught or don't want to put you through to the supervisor. They hang up solely because you're not playing the game and clearly they don't wanna waste their time talking to someone going on about do not call registers.

Exfso (Peter) · #34 13-10-2015, 12:15 AM

I am also on the do not call register, that clearly means nothing to these cretins, reckon I get half a dozen calls a week. So as far as I am concerned that register does "Jack"

PCH (Paul) · #35 13-10-2015, 01:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Exfso

I am also on the do not call register, that clearly means nothing to these cretins, reckon I get half a dozen calls a week. So as far as I am concerned that register does "Jack"

The DNC register is an Aussie thing - how would they even know about it, let alone abide by it since they originate from overseas?

cfranks (Charles) · #36 13-10-2015, 10:14 AM

As others have mentioned, I use the 'my computer is switched off in another room' ploy and ask them to wait while I switch it on, put the phone down and walk away. Once, after about an hour, I hung up the phone and the guy called back asking why I had hung up on him!

I apologised and started the process again but then took pity on him and explained what knowledge I had acquired after 46 years in the computer industry. We finished having quite a nice chat!! I live alone in a small village and seldom talk to anyone so any conversation is (usually) welcome.

Shano592 (Shane) · #37 13-10-2015, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by FlashDrive

Tell'em your running Windows 3.1 .... or better still a Commodore 64

Col....

Or go even further back. Tell them you are using a Microbee with 16k of Ram, a green screen montior and no hard drive! Ah, good old MWBasic ... thank goodness we won't see those days again!