Hi Richo
Richo wrote.......
I rang the number and sure enough someone answered "World PC Tech". I just hung up.
Good move ony our part! These people are becoming more blatant in the levels they will go to in order to achieve their goal of gaining access to personal data !
Sadly ..the telephone has become a very popular approach method lately ! The "autodialler approach with the " silence on pickup " is also common of late !
The autodialler rings the numbers in their database ...and monitors for "pickup " .If it rings repeatedly during normal working hours for most people .... ( 9 to 5 ) ........without your answering...................................................................................................
You can then almost guarantee an evening call from a "live agent " around early evening ...just as you are winding down !
I give these pests no opportunity to waste my time ...but on the odd occasion ...I take pleasure in wasting theirs...
As soon as they mention " Running scans to check for threats" of any kind ......I waffle about and ask them to hold whilst I get a pen or pencil...(thirty seconds of shuffling and scrabbling on my part )
I then do a bit of various shuffling and riffling of pages of a nearby book or magazine ! (another thirty or forty seconds)
Then when they finally start the "spiel " ..I ask them to repeat everything due to my being " hard of hearing....or a poor reception on the landline etc:!!
The normal script they then follow , will then go along the lines of how they can "Fix" my machine...Yeah...right .....!
Playing the "compliant and " wavering potential customer .....really gets them interested ...The absolute inaccurate and totally useless jargon they then pour out is amazing !
I don't resort to verbal abuse..but its' really hard not to I guess ! But a bit of " techno - babble " with a few choice "made up " phrases like " Do you use Cloud based heuristic viability and polymorphic wild virus mutantional generative scanning ?"brings the converstion to a temporary pause whilst they try and figure it out !
Nope..I don't know what it means either
! ....But it sure throws them off the scripts that they work from !!
When I repeatedly ask if their scanning will sort the "Polymorphic wild virus mutants " They usually hang up double quick !
As a pointer to just how far these people will go ..I even had one guy trying to answer the above "nonsense query "!!
I don't make a habit of this type of response to these pests..but it sure makes you feel as though you've struck back and wasted a bit of their time for a change !