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Had a great friday call on the office phone.
One of them calls i heard about on here from an asian call centre trying to get me to let them have cotrol of my PC by telling me they were from microsoft saying i had a virus on my pc, so rum in hand I thought i could milk it.

caller:we have information you have a virus so we can correct it for you.
Me: that sounds bad, can you do it for me now?
caller: definately, can you sit at your PC and log onto xxxx address.

this went on for ages, him telling me what to do and me just grunting (sitting in garden really) and putting in the odd question to keep him fixed.

After nearly 20mins or so my glass was empty so i said my screen is still blank............silence on the phone.
I then asked should i not have turned my PC on before we started ?

It was then he called me every name, mainly all ending in the B word and hung up.
I had a nice glow of satisfaction after. enjoy ya weekend boys !
 
Nice one mate, I liked to do stuff with cold callers before we went on TPS.
I get loads of emails these days telling me that my cheque to the US Internal Revenue Service has bounced and that I need to contact someone pdq.
 

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