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by Morganmike - 21/09/26 07:54 PM
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Had a call at 1000 this morning from an Asian Indian type voice claiming his name was Mike and it was about my computer. Without further ado I told him he was a scammer and strangely enough he hung up..  Unusual but the number was not withheld and it is 01340 074857 just incase anybody knows where to report this stuff.
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And not a very bright scammer by the sounds of it.
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You should do what my MiL does and lead them on with various confused responses, oh by the way she doesn't have a PC, they can get really pissy when she tells them, when she has had enough fun!
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You should have given him the phone number of your local Indian .
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Rules have changed on businesses (including scam ones) withholding numbers. However, you will probably find that number is false. You can look the number up - try Google "Who called me" or somesuch... 
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Try this site. www.actionfraud.police.ukUseful background info and advice. I don't know how they would deal with just a report of the nuisance type call on its own. If a fraud had actually occured (money changed hands) then it would be dealt with. They may log the tel number for cross reference though. There are call blocking methods like TPS etc and our BT phone has a blocking option built in.
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Thanks for the information guys - I'll let them know the number.
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We have BT call guardian (or some such), which eliminates unsolicited calls. It's fantastic.
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We have BT call guardian (or some such), which eliminates unsolicited calls. It's fantastic. Same here. It's about the only thing BT have got right.
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Had a call at 1000 this morning from an Asian Indian type voice claiming his name was Mike and it was about my computer. Without further ado I told him he was a scammer and strangely enough he hung up.. Unusual but the number was not withheld and it is 01340 074857 just incase anybody knows where to report this stuff. Same call, but from 01340 074841 at about 10:45. I told him that the computer he was talking about was a company issue one and he needed to call our Corporate IT support in Bangalore and gave him the phone number. He said he would follow up. Yes, right. The number on the caller display is not a real number. They never are. The criminal gangs behind this stuff have realised we don't answer numbers that look odd. The STD code is for Market Weighton in Yorkshire, but no numbers on that STD code start with 0 or 1.
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