Scams - What a load of rubbish!

We get a lot of nuisance calls from Indian sounding guys. The moment I hear the accent I hang up. I've had nothing like you describe though.

When a German is very surprised about something, they may say, "The monkey is delousing me!" I say that very often.

i jest got off the phone myself with a fella from 'broad. not'n regards to viruses, but to see if'n i'd like to purchase health insurance. i wish these folks'd get a life. i've reported many numbers, so many'n fact 'f those wishin' to do dubious harm that i've actually a case# 'n can do such quickly online through the fcc.

Ive got a phone which can block calls, but strangely they can still leave an answer phone message.

I had a call like that from Microsoft one time @Inlemay . They gained access to my computer, bank account, etc and when they realized I had no money, credit cards, savings, etc., they started laughing and said, "Thank you for participating." It wasn't until later than I learned Microsoft would never call you. I was stupid and ticked off at the same time.

I got that same phone call a couple days ago. In the middle of all the calls I need to make and receive due to my father's passing, I get that one. Believe me, as soon as I heard he was from WINDOWS I hung up on him. And I wasn't nice about it either.

This was a common one over here until recently and I received many of them myself. I found it hilarious that someone tried claiming to work for Windows because there is no such company.

There are really different kinds of modus these days. We have to be extra careful.

I have read from other users around the world about those fake phone calls. My phone number is private and it's not on the telephone guides, so I am lucky I receive no calls.

lol, I have been having to call our customers and let them know their modems are showing up on reports that tell us they dont have correct signal levels, and we gotta fix it. Sound scammy now that i think about it, but it's the truth!

First off, I love your picture of the monkeys. We have these kinds of scams going on in the US all the time. We do have a number we can be put on that will block some calls, but they actually go to another phone and call from there, and there is someway they can pick up on a friend's number and use it, and when you call it back, it has either been disconnected or the friend will answer and know nothing about it. These I report really soon, and they get right on them to take care of it.

We get those constantly. The last one I got I lost my temper. In my best fake-Indian accent I shouted into the phone, "Samir, is that you, you dog? You still owe me 5000 rupees! Hey, I think I'll get my cousins and come over right now to collect it." He told me I was crazy and hung up.

We just don't answer calls from numbers we don't recognize. Well, I don't Hubby does a lot of the time, and then ends up hanging up on them.

You cant block the numbers all they do is use a number generator and it rings random numbers unfortunately you can block this from happening it happens to me all the time

You are not alone here and in my country it is even more rampant since some idiots working in the mobile service providers are selling our details like it is legit. So it was no surprise that scammers arrested in my country and overseas Philippines, Cambodia and Taiwan had already scammed millions before they were arrested and God knows whether all were arrested since they are rather large size groups. We have investment (ponzi mostly) to your child has had a nasty accident, so it can be quite harrowing for us when we could not really tell the truth or lie from the first call. So consider yourself to be lucky that it was just some Indian Microsoft guy calling. On the hindsight, I think you should all group up and give Microsoft some pressure to get them with their resources to go after these idiots.

I get those calls a lot too - they say it's about my 'windows computer' so I ask them what make and model and which version of Windows they mean and then they hang up on me

I keep getting calls on my mobile and I have finally blocked them...I hate they silly scams!

I just let the answering machine pick up.Or I just hang up when they say they are from Windows.

I hate those calls, and so many people get taken in by them

This is one of the reasons why I give out my home phone number to certain people only. And my mobile phone for other purposes... I can change my mobile phone number anytime as SIM cards in the Philippines come in cheap and has free credits in it.