Telstra tech. scam.

[katymatey*]

Just had a phone call purporting to be Telstra technical services saying I had a problem with my internet connection.

'Foreign' voice of course. I wasn't on the laptop at the time, so I told him I would connect and he could ring me back.  He did ring back and when I told him there was nothing wrong with the connection he hung up. Apparently this is a scam similar to the microsoft one that has been around for ages. 

[this-one-time-at-bandcamp]

I get calls from an outfit called consumer services, telling me that I should use them to keep my credit card clean.  I started using a coach's whistle to give them an earful, but they continued.............now I've graduated to an air horn.

[bushies.girl]

Thats true Helen, we dont get many these days, used to get heaps

[gleee58]

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@j*oono wrote:

It doesn't matter if you are on the do not call register because scammers ignore it 😄

If it really was Telstra then they can call you if you are a customer anyway, unless you tell them that you don't want their calls. Then the register rules apply to them too... apparently.

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The toddler is more than happy to take the calls. He just thinks he's so special when these people call him for a chat, shows them his tractors and cows then tells them about his plans for the day before saying bye bye and hanging up.

[grandmoon]

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@kopenhagen5 wrote:

Last time I said to the caller, So there is a problem with my computer? and they replied YES, turn it off now.

I answered, "Well that's amazing, because we don't have a computer". (kinda true, only laptops):smileyvery-happy:

Telemarketer said, sorry sorry and hung up. Never had those types again.

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When I told a telemarker that I didn't have a computer he replied "But madam everyone has a computer"

[bushies.girl]

Try telling them yuo dont own a mobile ph, which dont lol

[aps1080]

Oh yes, you can have such fun with some of these calls.

And if it all gets too much, you can just hang up LOL

[zanadoo_56]

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@kopenhagen5 wrote:

Last time I said to the caller, So there is a problem with my computer? and they replied YES, turn it off now.

I answered, "Well that's amazing, because we don't have a computer". (kinda true, only laptops):smileyvery-happy:

Telemarketer said, sorry sorry and hung up. Never had those types again.

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At least yours said sorry.

Not to long ago I had similar calls from 'Telstra' (ha) about my computer internet connection.  I had a computer. OK...but I hadn't yet got connected to the internet.  (I was surfing it for free at the library).  The supposed Telstra employee had an Indian accent so thick I found it hard to understand what he was saying.  I did however get the bit where he told me his name was Trevor!  I don't think so......

[zanadoo_56]

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@this-one-time-at-bandcamp wrote:

I get calls from an outfit called consumer services, telling me that I should use them to keep my credit card clean.  I started using a coach's whistle to give them an earful, but they continued.............now I've graduated to an air horn.

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Just wondering......

And if that ceases to work, what's next????

[aps1080]

To real PITA cold callers, Tell them that you are going to come round and what you will do to them.
They hang up pretty quickly and THEY take you off the list.

[grandmoon]

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@aps1080 wrote:
Oh yes, you can have such fun with some of these calls.

And if it all gets too much, you can just hang up LOL

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I had one and he started off by telling me I was going to get a cheaper rate on my local calls as I was such a good payer.  I started to ask him where he got that information from, I just kept asking him the question which he wasn't answering in the end he said he couldn't talk to me any longer as I was TOO CONFRONTATIONALIST and he hung up on me.  How rude of him.