Beat you my record is 37 minutes, it was a cold wet windy day, I had nothing better to do, I just love these calls. AC Chunky.Yes, they've started already. I had a lengthy conversation with a 'supervisor' on the line that claims to be from Microsoft saying they know my computer was "Being used by scammers" (!) - I said they can't get in to use it and pretended not to understand what he was saying about technology. That was 20 minutes of his life he won't get back! If its anything to do with loft insulation, boiler renewal, double glazing, replacement soffits (what the hell are soffits anyway?) I tell them to contact my landlord. (You can do that even if you own your house - they aren't interested if they can't deal with you directly!) Another trick to try is let the phone ring 5 times before answering it - scammers dial multiple numbers then disconnect once one answers. Not failsafe, but often saves your bother. On mobiles, check the number calling - if it doesnt begin with "0" or "+44" its from outside of the UK. You can check where from on this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_telephone_prefixes_by_country
thanks.i do look now at the feedback of the sellers now.Sorry you've had trouble with that site, Pete. It's a good idea to check the customer satisfaction rating of whoever you're buying from. I do that and thankfully haven't had any trouble for years. A good rating should be at least close to 100%.
Note that e**y could be ebay or etsy! Having said that I haven't had problems with either (yet!!)the amount of items that have not arrived from a online site e**y
i hope you dont.Pete
Note that e**y could be ebay or etsy! Having said that I haven't had problems with either (yet!!)
update/resubscribe = give us your bank details. Not to the AV vendors, to the scammers. Address details would be extra icing on the cake.In the last week I've had a run of e-mails asking me to update/resubscribe to various computer security programs. For some reason, they are getting through the usual spam filter. Although the Anti-virus programs exist, the senders (as evidenced by their addresses) are not connected to them. I do not know what the scam is - it could just be an address collector - but I know it is a scam.
I used to use the deliberate mistake to see if my window posters and adverts were being read,Regretably Andrew you may be right, though I had never considered that mistakes were deliberate.
I love the grammar police, so easy to grab their attention.I
I used to use the deliberate mistake to see if my window posters and adverts were being read,
An upside down poster or a mis-spelled word would always bring in the person who couldn't resist telling you how stupid you are.
Is that why a lot of hikers used to turn up in Fazeley Street.Interestingly, mapmakers would introduce a deliberate error too. It was a way of detecting copyright breaches
I have just remembered many years ago an old friend who was at what was then Aston commercial college saying he had published a set of statistical tables and had introduced one slight error at the last decimal point on one page, for the same reasonI love the grammar police, so easy to grab their attention.
Interestingly, mapmakers would introduce a deliberate error too. It was a way of detecting copyright breaches
Odd spelling mistakes can be part of a different kind of game. If you've ever been passed something on FaceBook that either has a couple of odd spelling mistakes or is just an image and asked to share it there's a trick to it. It's possible to search for odd phrases or images on google. So if someone wants to find out what idiots will circulate just about anything, they search for either the phrase or the image and they can find out who shared it and where. That way they can spam a lot more people simply by sharing whatever they want with the people who share it to the places where they want it to go.Also, the odd spelling mistake is often deliberate, as is the subtly not quite correct English, (and odd typeface mikejee). Scammers don't want to waste time with people who are paying attention.
Andrew.