Visa security muppets scam

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#298866 22-Jul-2022 15:37

I finally decided to press "1" for a "Visa" call today and recorded it.

Anyone got any fun recordings with these guys....... file is a MP3.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1buyU_UxyjhjfagTZN5joiC2j4SoHLRBr/view?usp=sharing

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#2945400 22-Jul-2022 15:59

Nice. The last time I pressed '1' as well.

The last couple of scam calls I have tried a different tack. Assuming India is a religious / spiritual place, I ask the phone operators how they can do this all day and then go to temple with a clear conscience.

So far I've had a 'eff off' and a 'go to hell' so I think it's working :-)

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#2945427 22-Jul-2022 16:38

I had a call the other day and pressed 1 to troll them

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#2945429 22-Jul-2022 16:47

Keep listening for the post-call comment.

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#2945470 22-Jul-2022 19:08

We are so sick of these Visa security muppet calls that we have bought a Spark CallScreen phone system.

Should help cut back on all the real estate and religious callers as well I hope.

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#2945472 22-Jul-2022 19:28

im kind of guessing here but i might be wrong but i dont think James Williams is his real name.

Common sense is not as common as you think.

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#2945476 22-Jul-2022 20:21

I'm waiting for his doppelganger William James to call.

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#2945538 23-Jul-2022 08:59

Loved your sensible questions!!! The sad thing, though, is the target market these sods are hoping to defraud.

Just checking my Williams family tree and couldn't find any James Williams with Indian heritage. If I find him I promose to delete him!

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#2945576 23-Jul-2022 14:16

I've never really understood what motivates people to engage with scammers like this. You are just allowing them to waste much more of your time than if you were to just hang up on them.

The volumes of scam calls that I have been getting recently have meant that I now only accept calls from people in my contacts list. That's not ideal as it will screen out some legitimate calls, but I see it as a necessity.

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#2945583 23-Jul-2022 14:35

I consider it wasting their time rather than mine. If I can tie them up for 5mins, then its 5mins less they can spend on someone else who could fall for their scam.

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#2945663 23-Jul-2022 18:45

I told them I did make those transactions and there was silence for about 15 seconds while he thought of what to say. Usually get a couple of these a week. Lots of scam bait videos on Youtube.

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#2945682 23-Jul-2022 20:55

Jim Browning and may others are all cross working on conf calls together now. It's like as many geo location tactics and back door attempts for info harvesting at once.

Was a newer video where they watched through the insecure CCTV as the cops went in and turned the power off to raid them. Alas, they get as much of a photo in the paper and a slap on the hand for shaming the country internationally and not much else

Then it's off to the next shared office space to start again.

But gives you quite the insight as to how many are operating, and how the shifts are targeted.

One of them was reading back phrases from the script he was following during the call. And he was so focused on reading it to drive it home and ignore the responses he never clicked.

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#2945692 23-Jul-2022 22:21

elpenguino:
Nice. The last time I pressed '1' as well.

The last couple of scam calls I have tried a different tack. Assuming India is a religious / spiritual place, I ask the phone operators how they can do this all day and then go to temple with a clear conscience.

So far I've had a 'eff off' and a 'go to hell' so I think it's working :-)

Same for the Philippines where 90% identify as Christian. A fraction of a percentage identify as none. Next time you get such a scam caller try asking them if they’ll be going to confession on Sunday.

You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

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#2985376 20-Oct-2022 16:03

LOL.... just had another scam call, I stopped and asked if their mother was proud of the job they were doing.... it went down hill from there, but wasted another 3 minutes of their time

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#2985387 20-Oct-2022 16:29

I've had a dozen calls from similar Australian numbers in the past week 0061 3 9xxxxxxx. I've reported them all as spam using the Pixel spam report thingy, but they keep coming. It'd be handy to be able to block number ranges on Android.

I also get calls every couple of weeks trying to sell me bitcoin, or that kind of thing.

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#2985468 20-Oct-2022 18:25

Yeah this was from AU. Recorded it again but due to what my wife was yelling in the background, I won't post it :D

I look forward to the calls..... its a bit of fun and great venting platform :D

XPD / Gavin

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