[Han_EONNext]

Hi @Boncobill 🤗

Thanks for flagging this up and bringing this number to our Community for other members to see! This has been flagged and sent to our anti-fraud team so please don't worry about it 😁.

Thank you to @Andy65 and @retrotecchie for looking after you on this one! Its great to see other members sharing their experiences too, and what they do to prevent this. I very much agree that it is so so concerning for some people who would perhaps fall short of becoming victim to scams 😯 hopefully they have people around like yourselves to protect them!

[Boncobill]

Originally Posted by Han_EONNext

Hi @Boncobill 🤗

Thanks for flagging this up and bringing this number to our Community for other members to see! This has been flagged and sent to our anti-fraud team so please don't worry about it 😁.

Thank you to @Andy65 and @retrotecchie for looking after you on this one! Its great to see other members sharing their experiences too, and what they do to prevent this. I very much agree that it is so so concerning for some people who would perhaps fall short of becoming victim to scams 😯 hopefully they have people around like yourselves to protect them!

Hi Hannah,

No problem. Thank you for looking in on this one.

I agree that diseminating the information about the number can be useful and the other guys chipped in with some good advice.

I'm usually super savvy with these scenarios but unsolicited incoming calls always raise the antennas!

M

[Boncobill]

Originally Posted by retrotecchie

I've not had a South African accent from a call centre yet, but I get an awful lot of scam calls regarding my internet or my computer claiming to be from 'Windows' (not even Microsoft) that tend to be Indians.

I take great delight in leading them on, keeping them paying for the call and accepting their offer of assistance with my 'virus' or hack attempt. They start getting very het up when they tell me to press a particular key combination and I tell them I don't have those keys on my keyboard.

After twenty minutes of frustration on their part, they usually get fed up and then hang up the call. Poor sods have no clue they have been trying to hack into a 1982 Commodore VIC20...

Gotta love the Vic 20!

[retrotecchie]

@Boncobill

Boots a lot faster than my PC 😎