Email Scammers are on the prowl again.

A girl after my own heart, ROFL!!!!! Love it!

 

Just trying to scare the guys.....you are safe, lol.

 

Are you using Windows 10?? I have that with this latest install. It is usually that MS Edge browser letting me know. Annoying at times. Just had an update and awaiting any surprises that MS is throwing at me!!

 

Phew!

 

Was rather hoping to con you into paying for my roofing repairs.

Seriously though, these scam texts are one reason I steer clear of downloading a mobile banking app onto my phone. My daughter has had 4 such texts over the past week.

 

I had the usual one on the landline the other day from 'Microsoft'. I let her ramble on and when I asked for proof she was from 'Microsoft' she said, with a great deal of venom in her voice, "You mean nothing to me, go to hell!!!!". Do you think I should let Bill Gates know that his staff are very rude.

 

Still on win 7 Heather, disbelieved discounted & ignored w10 when the earlier freeby came on. These are inputs where I have 'allowed' my email server or some such to notify me of input.

Our biggest & most annoying daily scam are from someone professing to be from Australian Gov't 'do not call 'centre. What a riot they are.

 

Chimp.. they just got your address "out of the ether". I get lots from alleged US banks and the bots aren't smart enough to know my dot CA address means Canada!! Plus they never use my name in the "Dear" part!

Laughed at one 2 days ago who called me her "dearest christian friend" and she wanted to send me a bazillion dollars to give to charities!! I so wanted to write back and tell her I was Jewish or Muslim!!

 

If she was Nigerian there's a good chance she might not be a Christian herself, I guess there would be a fair few Muslims in Nigeria plus all sorts of other faiths.

 

Haven't come across this one before.

Yesterday my mobile let out its strangled cry and when I answered a female voice rattled off a pre-recorded message IN MANDARIN!!!!!!!!!!

Didn't bother waiting for the punch line, just laughed and hung up.

Once was funny but I have no doubt it wouldn't take long for this latest "trick" to become very old.

 

Philippa, How did you know it was Mandarin, I got a call on my mobile recently, a female voice talking at a lightening speed, I knew she was Asian but no Idea which language.

 

That's when I put them through the "Pardon? who is this? I'm sorry I can't hear you. You are speaking too quickly for me. No, I'm not may I take a message?

 

Our Singaporean friends are Mandarin speakers, NR. Never thought about it before, but I guess after over 30 years of hearing them speak it has become familiar (even if I only understand about 3 words!!)

This was one of the pre-recorded messages, Wendy, so no chance to put them through their paces I'm afraid. Would have otherwise............

 

A phone call today from a lady who introduced herself as 'Nancy Wilson', she with the thick Indian accent. I just hung up.

 

That one has been happening over here as well.... I got it a couple of weeks ago. !

 

Me too!

 

This one is a clever one over my landline phone, somehow the low lifes, purporting to be Telstra, are/may be aware of the internet dropouts I've been experiencing, which btw Telstra fixed last week. However I think there might have been others in are area who were suffering dropouts, I think they were fishing (not phishing) with me they seemed to be not totally sure I'd had dropouts, they are probably randomly trying their luck with people in the Wollongong area.

It started with the Indian guy rabbiting on about dropouts and saying my computer ID address is showing as not my postal address.

Then he called in his "security manager to talk to me, more BS.

Next that Low life (security manager) asked me do a search on the words "my IP location address" which I did, the address came up as Mountain View California.

He discussed this with me stating this was the problem 'Telstra' were contacting me about.

Then he started asking me to do other things, by now I was getting bored with playing him so I asked him to quote me my Telstra account number, which he couldn't because.
Him: "I'm talking on a recorded phone line."

Me: "Well, call me back on a line that's not recorded and tell me my Telstra account number."

Him: "The Telstra Service dept cannot access your account number".

Me: "That's a lie, bye."

He rung me back asking why I hung up, I told him if he can't tell me my Telstra account number then he is a fraud. End of conversation.

I will say this for him it was a nice try the stuff he came up with although utter BS sounded quite technically plausible.