I even get the ones from crooks pretending to be banks.
Oh wait, some of them actually are from banks...   

don't worry, hard to tell the difference sometimes 

had a couple of the amazon e-mails, but as advised here just deleted.

had the call from microsoft engineer a couple of weeks ago, caught me at a bad time, should have listened and then explained not interested, but as I'd seen several references to this sort of thing, I'm afraid I told 'Andrew', yeah right with an accent like that, to err go away 

surprised that he hasn't phoned back since

another good tactic is to say, "can you hold on please, I'll just put you through to my sergeant.. hello ?"

seems to cause a disconnection for some reason 

Quote from: Pengi on October 01, 2013, 04:15:12 PM
I've had a lot of calls from the Microsoft engineers insisting that I have a problem with Windows (I use a Mac  ) I did get a phone number out of one of them and I passed it onto Trading Standards who failed even to acknowledge that I had sent them this information  There was also a programme about this on the local news and they had traced a company to Calcutta which, surprise surprise, had packed up and gone when they got there to investigate but they did interview a guy that used to work in one of these 'call centres'

I now have caller display so any calls that display as International, I leave to ring until the answer phone cuts in - if it is a genuine caller, they will usually start to leave a message and then I will pick up the phone.

I'm now getting loads of fake emails purporting to be from LinkedIn 

Linkedin emails are definitely getting on the increase, but today had the Microsoft (Calcutta voiced ) Engineer calling me advising me that my PC had recorded a network fault with them. When I said I don't have a PC in the house, He said "Was I sure and would I like to check" as the system showed my PC was causing a problem in the area. When I said I think I'd know if I had a PC or not", he then asked "Was there maybe someone else there with one, or maybe someone was using one there without my knowledge". I hung up before I burst out laughing.

Best response I know of to them when they ask by name is "I'm sorry he committed suicide after someone phoned from India and tricked him into letting them hack his PC"

I find it quite astounding that some 15 years after the anti-virus companies invented viruses (well, who else would bother? ) that people still click on dubious attachments.

The 'delete' button is there for a reason.

Quote from: FeelixTC on October 04, 2013, 12:23:32 PM
I find it quite astounding that some 15 years after the anti-virus companies invented viruses (well, who else would bother?

Hi

I've always had the opinion that it is a self perpertuating business model.

I have some code I have written that could be used for malicious purposes that none of the current virus scanners pick up.

Cheers

Paul

Quote from: PaulCheffus on October 04, 2013, 12:57:31 PM

Quote from: FeelixTC on October 04, 2013, 12:23:32 PM
I find it quite astounding that some 15 years after the anti-virus companies invented viruses (well, who else would bother?

Hi

I've always had the opinion that it is a self perpertuating business model.

I have some code I have written that could be used for malicious purposes that none of the current virus scanners pick up.

Cheers

Paul

I could think of a few worthy recipients of that Paul! 

Thanks to these posts I almost laughed when the Indian engineer called our Italian home number this afternoon. "I have detected a problem with your Laptop".    Alas he hung up when I told him I don't have one...  I wanted to play along, next time.................