Zombie Twin
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We get loads of these, and my wife loves when the scammers call personally, rather than just using messages.
The best ones are when they are claiming to be your insurance company, or some other business you deal with. They will ask you for your password, claiming to be accessing the system to get you a special deal, and it's always priceless when you tell them that you have to ask THEM for your password, a security measure which throws them every time. They think you are confused, and talk to you like an idiot ("No, you have give me password") or they panic because they haven't run into this before, and have no protocols to follow. They usually hang up when they realise they've been rumbled.
My wife also likes letting them come out with all of their spiel, stringing them along for as long as possible and getting their hopes up before crushing them at the end. There was one where the scammer tried to con her bank details out of her in a pretty clumsy way, resulting in her asking "Just how stupid do you think I am?". He tried to be smart, but the Missus gave him a right bollocking and he rather humbly apologised and hung up.
I have told her that next time, when they ask for a password, that she gets their hopes up by playing along and tells them: "OK, it's P One Five S [space] Zero F F" and see how long it takes the penny to drop.
The best ones are when they are claiming to be your insurance company, or some other business you deal with. They will ask you for your password, claiming to be accessing the system to get you a special deal, and it's always priceless when you tell them that you have to ask THEM for your password, a security measure which throws them every time. They think you are confused, and talk to you like an idiot ("No, you have give me password") or they panic because they haven't run into this before, and have no protocols to follow. They usually hang up when they realise they've been rumbled.
My wife also likes letting them come out with all of their spiel, stringing them along for as long as possible and getting their hopes up before crushing them at the end. There was one where the scammer tried to con her bank details out of her in a pretty clumsy way, resulting in her asking "Just how stupid do you think I am?". He tried to be smart, but the Missus gave him a right bollocking and he rather humbly apologised and hung up.
I have told her that next time, when they ask for a password, that she gets their hopes up by playing along and tells them: "OK, it's P One Five S [space] Zero F F" and see how long it takes the penny to drop.
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