Scam Phone companies ringing constantly lately

[Melachi]

Right, this is Ireland im talking about, but anyway

My brother told me recently that some fake phone company keeps ringing us pretending to be rewarding us for our dedication to "Eircom" the main teleco in Ireland. They call themselves Mew-Tel (thats how its pronounced anyway) and claim that due to being with Eircom for so long, we will now recieve so and so free minutes a month and so so free local calls a month, whatever.

Anyway, my brother was out this morning, and they called. Just after they called and I said "sorry im not interested" I rang Eircom and told them about this, they said it was a scam and they were not related to Eircom in any way, and they charge you a ton for switching over, its a big scam blah blah blah.

So anyway, just after I get off the phone with Eircom (the real company) the phone rings again, its those fuckers again, so before she can start with the bullshit I just say "fuck off" and hang up.

So im sitting here thinking, arseholes, gotta think of a way to scare em! So just as soon as I start thinking of ideas, the phone rings and im thinking damn its them again, so got a real quick plan into my head and answered.

For some reason I put on an American accent, dont know why, just seemed like a good idea oO

Went like this:

Her: "Hello, is this Mr Da Silva"
Me: "Yes.."
Her: "This is Mewtel, we have been asked by Eircom to reward you for continued loyality to them, by signing up to this reward package you will get blah blah blah"
Me: I but in, dont let her finish
"Do you know who this is?!"
Her: "Mr Da Silva"
Me: "Yeah its Mr Da Silva, I work for the Irish Communications Regulator..."
-little pause-
Me: "What your doing is ilegal, and this was the last number you wanted to call, your screwed now."
Her: "I dont know this is ilegal I just work here!"
I just hung up then.

Anyway I dont think i gave them a real scare, but can any of you think of anything that will really freak them out? I bet its all done from some shitty apartment, 3 people or something, just need a good story to freak the hell out of them next time they call

 

[Ezteq]

lol nice one, tbh stick with the one you did, its short and sharp and to the point and if the people in the call center didnt realise its illeagle they do now, might be worth also calling the irish communications regulator board and geting them in on it too, shut the buggers down.

wtg

 

[Thorwyn]

Coldcalls are a problem over here too. Unfortunately, there´s nothing you can really do about it, because most of those companies don´t care about doing something illegal, simply because it´s too hard to track them down, prove something and/or very few people are having the patience and money to actually take actions against them. Plus, they´re often using holes in the laws to circumvent the legal part, for example they´re camouflaging the call as a poll.

Whenever I`m receiving a coldcall, I usually ask how they got my number, then ask for the name of the guy in charge (the boss of thoe guy who´s calling me) and the phonenumber of the company, then tell them that I don´t want to be bothered again. Usually helps... until the next company decides to call me.

The only way to reliably counter those calls is to get a secret phone number.

 

[Jaem-]

T-Mobile(already a customer on Pay As You Go) keep phoning me asking if I want to go on some deal or something, 3 times in 2 weeks now, always between 7-9pm, you'd think they would have gotten a clue by now...

1st time: Played along asking what they offered, then said no.
2nd time: Put phone down straight away.
3rd time: He had the cheek to ask questions to see if I "QUALIFED" to beable to go on their deals lol, so I said I just need to put you on hold for 1 second and turned on my speakers again to play some prodigy down the phone until they hang up.

... if they ring again, I'm phoning their CS saying why I'm changing my current phone, but also to another company. I don't like their sale methods, simple junk mail is enough, in the bin you go shooo shooo, If I wanted another deal I'd go and see what they offer.

 

[[SS]Gamblor]

Right, this is Ireland im talking about, but anyway

My brother told me recently that some fake phone company keeps ringing us pretending to be rewarding us for our dedication to "Eircom" the main teleco in Ireland. They call themselves Mew-Tel (thats how its pronounced anyway) and claim that due to being with Eircom for so long, we will now recieve so and so free minutes a month and so so free local calls a month, whatever.

Anyway, my brother was out this morning, and they called. Just after they called and I said "sorry im not interested" I rang Eircom and told them about this, they said it was a scam and they were not related to Eircom in any way, and they charge you a ton for switching over, its a big scam blah blah blah.

So anyway, just after I get off the phone with Eircom (the real company) the phone rings again, its those fuckers again, so before she can start with the bullshit I just say "fuck off" and hang up.

So im sitting here thinking, arseholes, gotta think of a way to scare em! So just as soon as I start thinking of ideas, the phone rings and im thinking damn its them again, so got a real quick plan into my head and answered.

For some reason I put on an American accent, dont know why, just seemed like a good idea oO

Went like this:

Her: "Hello, is this Mr Da Silva"
Me: "Yes.."
Her: "This is Mewtel, we have been asked by Eircom to reward you for continued loyality to them, by signing up to this reward package you will get blah blah blah"
Me: I but in, dont let her finish
"Do you know who this is?!"
Her: "Mr Da Silva"
Me: "Yeah its Mr Da Silva, I work for the Irish Communications Regulator..."
-little pause-
Me: "What your doing is ilegal, and this was the last number you wanted to call, your screwed now."
Her: "I dont know this is ilegal I just work here!"
I just hung up then.

Anyway I dont think i gave them a real scare, but can any of you think of anything that will really freak them out? I bet its all done from some shitty apartment, 3 people or something, just need a good story to freak the hell out of them next time they call

what part of Ireland ?

I Live in dublin.

Well here is my suggestion ( pretty much along the same lines as you've been handeling it.

Me : yellow ?
Her: "This is Mewtel, we have been asked by Eircom to reward you for continued loyality to them, by signing up to this reward package you will get blah blah blah"
Me: Really , Sorry , but could i take your name ? and a contact number ? and your supervisors name.
Her : name , number , blah blah blah blah. (Hopefully - she might jsut hang up).
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now this is where u could use 2 tacts.
1st.
How did you get my number ?
It's not listed in the phone book. A company MUST discolse where they got your number (Information act).
Once you find out tell them that they are never to ring again , and they you will be contacting the Information regelorty commision about this to see if they obtained the information legaly.

2nd.
Me: I work for eircom , and i know for a fact that we are not linked with you in anyway shape or form , I will be notifing my Manager once i'm in work and the Garda who will trace your number.
I do hope you enjoyed our little Chat.
end the call this way ( it's sure to stop them ringing)

Please don't call her again , if you do i will report any further attemps at contact as Stalking/nusicance/pestering and this will then become a legal matter with the Garda.

 

[Melachi]

Im in Kildare, but in the 01 phone code area, so I get all the shite of Dublin, with the boringness of Kildare, yeah!

 

[Darksword]

Right, this is Ireland im talking about, but anyway

My brother told me recently that some fake phone company keeps ringing us pretending to be rewarding us for our dedication to "Eircom" the main teleco in Ireland. They call themselves Mew-Tel (thats how its pronounced anyway) and claim that due to being with Eircom for so long, we will now recieve so and so free minutes a month and so so free local calls a month, whatever.

Anyway, my brother was out this morning, and they called. Just after they called and I said "sorry im not interested" I rang Eircom and told them about this, they said it was a scam and they were not related to Eircom in any way, and they charge you a ton for switching over, its a big scam blah blah blah.

So anyway, just after I get off the phone with Eircom (the real company) the phone rings again, its those fuckers again, so before she can start with the bullshit I just say "fuck off" and hang up.

So im sitting here thinking, arseholes, gotta think of a way to scare em! So just as soon as I start thinking of ideas, the phone rings and im thinking damn its them again, so got a real quick plan into my head and answered.

For some reason I put on an American accent, dont know why, just seemed like a good idea oO

Went like this:

Her: "Hello, is this Mr Da Silva"
Me: "Yes.."
Her: "This is Mewtel, we have been asked by Eircom to reward you for continued loyality to them, by signing up to this reward package you will get blah blah blah"
Me: I but in, dont let her finish
"Do you know who this is?!"
Her: "Mr Da Silva"
Me: "Yeah its Mr Da Silva, I work for the Irish Communications Regulator..."
-little pause-
Me: "What your doing is ilegal, and this was the last number you wanted to call, your screwed now."
Her: "I dont know this is ilegal I just work here!"
I just hung up then.

Anyway I dont think i gave them a real scare, but can any of you think of anything that will really freak them out? I bet its all done from some shitty apartment, 3 people or something, just need a good story to freak the hell out of them next time they call

if you got time to kill, demand to talk ot hte supervisor and see how high up in the company you can get, talk about legal action fraud and stuff

 

[old.Tohtori]

If you want to know how i answerthese sorts of things,check out the goa helpdesk with Jeff... *grins*

Me: Hello?
Annoying sales person(asp): HEllo sir! Do you have some time to talk?
Me: Umm...wait a sec... *phone a bit further away* ... No! First cut the left one, then the right one...... Hello?
ASP: Yes.
Me: Excuse me, trying to work here too. Sure, i have time to talk.
ASP: Great! I wanted to tell you abou...what's that sound?
Me: That? Oh the meat grinder.
ASP: Excuse me...?
Me: Meat grinder. For meat. Grinding...oh for fu...No eyes! Leave the eyes for the envelopes!
ASP: Maybe i'll call back later.
Me: Oh now is good enough.
ASP: No. You seem a bit busy.
Me: Hmm...you inow something...Psst...Bill! Trace this call... Now you were saying?
ASP: Uh...umm.....good day sir! -click-

 

[Airwalker]

to be funny at them, do this to just get them bored.

you pick up phone, and say: hello... and they start talking. THEN! leave the phone, don't hang up on him, just lay it down on the table, go make a burger, watch tv. and come back after 2min, and say... ok... could you tell me some more about it... and then leave again... now your burger is ready after 5min in the microwave! go back to the phone... say ok... again, say: could you tell me a lil more about it... and he starts talking again, and you are off to watch tv! come back after eating your burger... and you say.. no I'm not interrested thats actully funny...

;p and if they ask for your husband/wife... just say yes, and leave the phone.