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For business inquiries, please phone my business number, please
First state you want to Buy Computer
Consultancy
English: For business I can speak English, German or very
slow French
Deutsch: Ja, für
Geschäft, können wir Deutsch
reden.
Francais: Oui, pour le travail, je comprend
Francais, mais tres lentment, si vous plait !
- YOU _MUST_ SPEAK FIRST !
- I often pick up & say NOTHING !
- You dialed my number: You Speak First! Identify yourself!
You expect it's me. I don't expect it's You ;-) I have no
idea who you are UNTIL YOU SPEAK FIRST.
- If you happen to call during or after yet another wave of
criminal Indians, you may get the silent treatment. Friends
are intelligent enough to speak, giving me their
pronunciation of my name or theirs, & which human
language, & a chance to recognise their voice.
- I am plagued by criminal Indians from call centres,
faking Microsoft Support. I don't even USE Microsoft
! Which compounds the agravation.
- I have a Lot of numbers, & periodically get swamped
by persistent cold callers working through all the
numbers.
- Most callers for years have been Indian, un-regulated by
Indian government. All the Indian criminals give very rare
honest Indian callers a bad name.
- Callers who phone with a background of music or call
centre, whose robots then wait for recipient human voice
before they assign one of their sellers or criminals are bad
enough.
- When then speak in Indian accented German lieing they are
from Microsoft it's an open invite to swear at them, hang up
on, put them on hold to lock up their line, or play them an
mp3 audio track in German, equivalent of eg: "Hallo ... Sorry
... What do You want ... Ah ... This is my friend's line,
please wait while I fetch my friend ... Are you still there ?
Good hold on a minute I'll try upstairs ... Sorry wasn't
there, I'll try downstairs, Please hold..."
- Politeness is totally in-appropriate: Best whistle or
swear loudly & vilely at them about their sex, religion
or whatever most outrages them. They are parasites, make them
hate & dump their criminal job, &/or mark your number
in their lists as one for their colleagues to avoid.
- There's YouTube videos of hijacked web cams spying back
inside a nest of Indian criminals, go search!
- Numeric Caller ID:
- My current desk phone doesn't display numeric caller
ID. Wouldn't help much if it did:
- Some cold callers use analogue lines, or suppress
caller ID, or fake caller ID, regular with
criminals.
- My previous PC display of caller name has failed,
till I get time to fix it, (Name is extracted from
numeric look up table in an xterm, from S0 ISDN on
gateway PC.
- More
I have other phone numbers for
friends, established customers, & service suppliers etc. They
are Not listed here.
Only use phone numbers listed on my business cards,
correspondence or Berklix
web sites.
Do not use my old 6 digit Munich number 089 ________, it
may already be abandoned by the time you read this, as it is
spammed to hell by wasters.
Do not use phone numbers from old non Berklix archives I have no control
of. Some numbers were on the net several decades ago, before web
search engines existed.
They were harvested & flooded by criminal Indians in call
centres faking being Microsoft support. They get ignored, an
automatic reply, or a loud offensive response that upsets the
criminals
I have multiple bases. If I'm not where you expect me, your
call may be redirected. That won't cost you more than speaking
to me on the number you dialed, (but be aware if after [perhaps
one?] ring it goes silent, it may have diverted to 2nd base,
where a WLAN or DECT phone might fail to pick up, & if so
you may hear silence; that silence your phone provider would
bill you for at same rate as a a normal call to me.) Not all
numbers are forwarded, those not were listed on the web before
automated scammers evolved, so those numbers get called by
criminal Indian scammers saying "Your PC has a virus we can fix
with our Trojan horse" ;-) (A farce as I use Free Software). If you have
problems phoning me, Email me.
NO GERMAN / KEIN
DEUTSCH
Unless you will purchase computer consultancy /
Ausser sie Consultancy kaufen wollen.
Me, my Company my Associates.
I can also chat in German with friends & colleagues, but
if you Cold Call me in German, you have just seconds to declare
you want to Buy Computer Consultancy, & are not another
time Waster (aka phone spammer / call marketer etc).
Keine Um-Sonst Help
Desk
Unless you quickly state your intention to pay me Money for computer consultancy ...
Rules below apply to phoning me ! - Else I hang up.
DE: Kein Unter-drucken
!
IT: Le telefonate con numero nascosto
sono filtrate
If
You Suppress Caller ID - You Will Annoy Yourself
-
Sometimes I do not pick up the phone.
- The computer also shows which of my numbers you called.
the combination indicates if your call is likely a
waste.
- It avoids strangers motor mouthing in various foreign
languages, usually German, selling, sometimes (worst) in
Bavarian dialect.
- It avoids Indian accents lieing from criminal call
centres, pretending to be Microsoft, when they're
recruiting suckers to browse their virus site.
- It avoids strangers scrounging free help. - Use a free
mail list, eg here for
FreeBSD.
- It avoids club acquaintances (`Bekannter') who
deliberately suppress ID yet want to consume my time. -
Join club mail lists
& ask there, or in person when we are both attending
events I organise &/or
attend.
-
Sometimes I pick
Up & Remain Silent Until Caller Speaks
- It kills cold sellers, children, idiots, etc, who
repeatedly call my various numbers, sometimes in unknown
languages.
- It allows me to carry on working un-interrupted, unless
the caller is intelligent enough to speak & explain why
he/she wants my time, & worse wants to disturb me ( I
am a programmer, I can be
deep in debugging a problem, could lose the thread just for
a useless waster)
- It avoids those who try by silence to force me to say
first who I am, so they know how my name is pronounced,
& they can perhaps pretend acquaintance, when they
already have the advantage of knowing who they
dialled.
- Friends who have old analogue lines that don't disclose
their ID are intelligent enough to say eg "Hallo, Fred
here" or at least "Is that ... (with correct pronunciation
that call centre wasters don't know) ?" to break
silence.
Turn Caller ID On !
My computer shows your name (if known) from number). & may
later have different phones ring with different tone for
anonymous, known wasters, & known friends & customers,
to indicate if it's worth breaking off & coming to the
phone.
Zu Erst: Was Wollen Sie ? - Wollen Sie
Computer Consultancy Kaufen ?
- I get a LOT of wasters (aka spammers) phoning
me.
- So I answer "Hallo!" nothing more. You know who you've
called, you have the advantage,
Immediately say what you want & who you are. Else I
hang up.
- Most un-recognised voices in German are just wasters
selling junk.
That makes it difficult to recognise new customers calling
me.
Meist unbekannte Stimmen in Deutsch
versuchen mir etwas zu verkaufen, also es ist in ihre eigene
besten interesse, entweder English zu sprechen, oder erklaren
sie schnell & Klar, welche Computer Consultancy sie
kaufen wollen.
- Depending which phone number you ring from your end,
& to which number my end, & time & day in week,
& language, I take a guess if you're yet another waster,
or someone I want to talk to. That guess dictates how long
before I hang up.
- Maybe I'll say eg "Hallo" & nothing more &
wait.
- I get too many junk sellers phoning, I hang up in a few
seconds.
- You know who you hoped to call, & what you want.
- Say what you want & who you are.
- I don't hold on the line if I suspect another time
waster. !
- Occasionally callers are too obtuse or arrogant & try
to force me to identify my name before they identify their
number, name, what they want, & sometimes even their
language.
- I've knows Germans British & other nationals all that
daft, I hang up on them.
- I don't give my name or other info, until I've forced you
to state what you want & your name. You have the
advantage of me, you already know who you phoned, probably
checked my web pages, give me parity, or I hang up.
- Sometimes the clueless ask if my number is ......., no
way I'm answering that, I have about 10 numbers, won't check
'em all, & if the call is in German, or worse, Bavarian,
I'm certainly not going to re-invert / decode all the
inverted doublets of digits & worse jumbles, that Germans
emit, then match that against a list (not to hand) of all of
mine !
Do NOT give your name as the first word of the call !
Zu Erst: Was Wollen Sie Kaufen ? Nur
Spater: Ihre Name & Firma Name !
- Make Your First Words eg "Hello", "Good Morning",
"Guten Tag", "Bonjour!"
- Give me time to realise what language(s) you speak !
& What languages your accent suggests you might also
speak & I might also mix in.
- Do Not say your name & company names as first
words in a stream of fast German!
- Yes some used to assert that's the polite normal [old
fashioned] way in German. Irrelevant to me. (Similar
Dodos asserted correct German order to write a
CV/Lebenslauf, was school, University, First Job, Latest
Job on last page. Younger computer professional were among
the first to see the light & rectify
that.)
- I have No Interest in remembering your name &
company, until I hear a Reason to remember !
- What do you want to buy ? & do ?
- Nearly all callers here in fast German are wasters that
I dump in seconds.
- Identify yourself fast as a buyer, not a waster.
- Friends & customers I'll happily talk to in German
too.
- Until you tell me you want to buy Computer Consultancy,
I assume you're another waster & hang up very
fast.
- I spend my day working on complex problems in the
international computer industry language: English, not
German! I Do not welcome interruptions in German unless you
wish to purchase computer consultancy.
Rufen Sie mir an, nur im Englisch,
fails sie nicht Computer Consultancy kaufen
wollen.
Do not phone in German :
- Unless you start by saying you will Buy Computer Consultancy
- Expect me to hang up, fast ! (Most callers in German
whose voices I don't recognise, who can't pronounce my name
are wasters selling junk or harvesting info).
As your call rings:
- My computer shows & logs:
- Name (not number) of any known caller, Or
- Number of unknown caller, Or
- "From NotAvailable" if old analogue or withheld
- Which of my numbers you called, eg: business/
private/ clubs/ spammed from phone book, etc.
- If caller's number is NotAvailable
-
- If a repeat caller, I may just pick up & say "Uh
Huh !?" which forces caller to speak, & doesn't
disclose which language I use by default.
- they hate that, which pleases me,
- until then they know who I should be, whereas I
know nothing about them.
- I get their language (often enough not German or
English, but some foreigner) If I don't recognise
their voice, & they demand to know who I am &
they're not offering to purchase computer
consultancy, they're Wasters & get Dumped.
- If caller starts in German :
- If a stranger fails to start by asking to buy
Computer Consultancy ....
- If I hear motor mouth Fast German from an
unrecognised voice,
- If I suspect a robotised pause for answer &
sales queuer: Caller gets classified & filed as:
"Waster" : The response varies, sometimes
-
(Sometimes I don't just hang up, I do
better: I deliberately give initial answers to
robot to engage the queue for human 2nd level
response, then leave the phone on desk,
occasionally using keys or speech to lock up their
sales robot or human, so they can't waste so many
other innocent people's time as well).
- Or I interrupt more loudly in English ""ERR ..
Do you want to buy Computer Consultancy
?" (Which last brought a friendly laugh &
response in English from German sales girl), & a
friendly & quick agreement we had no need to talk to
each other.
Both techniques worth using as I find having my
concentration interrupted by phone, to be sold at in a
foreign language by someone who hides his number, as most
offensive, & worth inconveniencing them in return, to
the extent, they might note my number as too troublesome to
call again.
- Some clueless people from a moribund club used to phone
me in German, re. English club events & mail lists I help
run / organise, they ignored all of { the club's raison
d'etre - to operate in English - & events info, my web
pages, & mail list
announcements I make are } all in English.
- I give a lot of time organising events, & running
lists & servers, I can't afford to lose concentration
& more time unpaid, listening in German, explaining &
reasoning in German.
- Those club lists are nearly all for English speakers, so
if you want my time unpaid: save me assuming you're another
waster : Speak English at least until you get stuck, then
we'll switch.)
- If you cant speak English, go join a German club instead,
in Germany, finding a German speaking club isn't hard in
Germany ;-) (though we've had a few weirdos who persevere in
Not speaking English & want organisers & all others
of various nationalities on an event to all speak German just
'cos one misfit can't listen in English
If you want my time, Start in English, even if we later
oscillate between English & German.
He Who Helps, Determines Which
Language we start in. I'm happy mixing 50/50 English &
German with friends, & in German in German clubs I join,
but If you want to phone me in 100% German, quickly declare
yourself a customer who wants to pay me for computer
consultancy.
- I am English - Ich spreche auch
Deutsch - Aber Nur Hoch- Deutsch ! * Nur Für Bezahlender
Kunden ! Ich will Kein
Bayerisch Hören oder Lernen!
- Give all you numbers in single digit strings - not German
swapped digit pair format. - Bei
Nummern, sagen sie einzelne Ziffern, links nach rechts, nicht
Paarweise rum-gefummelt !
- I have the usual English difficulty recognising German
pronunciation of individual alphabet letters. I don't recognise
umlaut pronunciation at all.
- Use the International
Alphabet (For both German & English).
TIME ZONE - Central
Europe, GermanyAll Berklix servers can report current
time & date.
Physically
In Munich,
Bavaria, Germany. Central European Time zone. TZ =
"GMT+01:00" or "Germany/Berlin". 1 hour ahead of London,
England. Same Summer time switch over dates as London. In
(northern hemisphere) summer, London is 1 hour ahead of
Greenwich Mean Time = UTC, & Munich is 2 hours ahead.
Office Hours
- NOT available at 08:00 in Munich
Germany, Do NOT phone till long after !
- Not before 09:30 Munich time
(Except where it cannot be avoided, eg perhaps from
Asia).
- I work London City
(commercial not civil service) office hours eg 09:30 -
18:30 UK (GMT or BST) time. That's 10:30 - 19:30+ in
Munich.
- Early evening calls OK.
European Time Zones
Are Way Ahead From All American Time Zones !
Realise there is a World out there !
& It's way off from American clocks ! Sure some
pay attention, but some don't care. Here's a
graphic reminder of the globe:
On the other
page with time zones etc ... Is Europe not on
the right ? Has Europe rotated well into the dark ?
Is Australia edging into the dawn ? Then do Not
phone Europe now ! Email
&/or phone tomorrow earlier.
Phone Europe in the American morning,
not at end of American West coast business day!
I may take calls late my end, if motivated, &
preferably after prior warning. It might be OK,
Phoning late & trying, or by accident &
saying eg "Oh is it that late your end, Are you
tired ? Should I phone you earlier tomorrow ?" ...
But ...
Do NOT Aggressively Phone After Midnight &
Demand I Work
Examples of 2 stupid aggressive men who Failed to get
what they demanded:
- A Toronto lawyer who persisted trying to
negotiate stupid contract terms after being told it
was 2
to 3 AM my end. The Canadian multi-national
company he worked for phoned numerous times before
& after midnight for non emergencies, The CFO
& his lawyer engaged in evil to avoid their
company paying our team for work done. We sued
& got paid.
- A Californian Japanese programmer in a public
domain project phoned & tried to force me to
work immediately (unpaid) even after being told it
was ~2 in the morning & I needed to sleep. I
never worked with him. He too failed to get what he
wanted.
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Do Not Call outside European Business
Hours
Unless you have already paid me or my company Money
I No Longer Trust Customer Assumptions
That The Management Of Their Company Will
Automatically Pay For Work Agreed Done - So A Deposit
Is Often Required.
- So I don't work outside European
Business Hours till I or my company receives
money.
- No offence, but some companies are rogues,
& a few at management level are dishonest &
can not be trusted to stick to a deal & pay,
even when a customer engineer signs off on
acceptance test, & agrees the work's fine &
the bill should be paid.
- Experience: Sued & won 2 debts, + dealt
with 3 other attempted rip offs in 28 years.
- Companies usually pay their employees through
hard times, as it's harder to evade paying
employees than is to evade & / or delay paying
external service providers So employee project
managers etc may not always know if their company
is short of cash.
- Even less can I predict if some customer top
manager will perceive business circumstances
change, & an order he signed last week may look
less beneficial now, so a top manager may provoke a
problem, as an excuse to terminate contract, &
pose to his fellow executives, as tough, beating up
a service provider he ordered from the week
before.
- Before you phone me to work outside European
Business Hours please first check your company
has paid me or
my
company
-
If your company hasn't paid me or
my company
yet
- Perhaps because I
&/or colleagues & my company has
been working flat out all hours for you &
hasn't had time to pause technical work to
assemble & issue a bill yet
- Get your company to issue me or
my company
an advance on services, some money Up Front
(possibly in Escrow
if we agree)
- I &
my company
won't work out of hours for your company on
unsecured credit.
- Your company must front money or
security.
- A signed contract is No security, just an
aggravating obligation on both sides, with
option to litigate to wait years for money. We
don't work for that.
- If you want computer consultancy outside
European business hours, prior to your company
paying in to our account, get your local
representative to go to your bank or their bank
or cash machine (ATM) in Europe, & draw
substantial cash or get a bankers draft issued,
(Not a cheque drawn on your company account,
& not a transfer that can be revoked).
Americans etc: Do
NOT Phone Me Before Checking MY Timezone!
- Experience shows local project managers of near
all customers Can be trusted, but senior remote
managers of some customers can Not be trusted.
- I work late, but & so: in the late night
& early morning Only extremely urgent &
important technical & service problems interest
me, (eg multiple server failure), NOT merely
arguing contract terms & money with idiot
managers, lawyers, & programmers from Canada
& USA - that can & must wait, it is NOT
urgent! Learn at that time you don't matter &
are irrelevant. I've had all of idiot American/
Canadian lawyers & managers for commercial
companies, & non commercial volunteer FreeBSD
project committers phone me in the middle of the
night for non urgent rubbish, It did the callers
& their companies & projects no benefit,
they got nothing except contempt.
- Only if you
have also already paid me or
my
company
- Only if first payment has already been
received & verified cleared funds by my or
my company's
bank.
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Global
Position Probably NOT Current,
Click For Real Global Position
& Times,
- Make sure your browser & gateway are not caching
old pages with old times! (To check, click reload a few
times & see seconds increase).
- A "CEST" acronym means Central European Summer
Time.
Do Not Put Me On Hold !
Put me on `hold' for more than a few seconds, & I'll
hang up on you. I will not call or mail you back, nor think
further what we were talking about; You thought it was
un-important, your problem to restore context.
I Will Not Put You On Hold
If I hear a call ringing signal my end while talking to
you: I will glance at the display to see name of person
calling, I will Not put you on hold to talk to them, though
I may arrange to call you later, if the other caller might
be an urgent mobile, & you
might be re-callable later.
Stop Press 2022-02:
- Best phone my 8 digit number printed on physical
business cards, as that number
auto- diverts to me, (That number is not shown on the
web copy of the card).
- Don't use my very old 6 & 7 digit numbers:
Not auto- diverted as most callers there are Indian
criminals in call centres, trying to virus Microsoft PCs,
(I use No
Microsoft), only Unix, eg BSD
& Linux, etc.
- Avoid using the 8 digit number below unless you have
no other, it may not auto- divert, best Email me for a better phone number.
Number below obscured ( *) to
disrupt time wasters.
International_a_+_b_4_c_
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Higher priority phone numbers are available once
your company has made first payment to me or my company.
Business inquiries most welcome. The number is a normal
ones, Not an expensive support tariff, Phone company does not
pay me a fee when you phone me (So first tell me if
you can afford & will pay me at full professional
consultant rates, till that is answered, your technical
issues don't much interest me; I always have enough tech
issues of my own to explore, don't waste your time asking me
for free support, use a technical
mail list or web
forum instead).
Alphabet Pronunciation
For when German & English speakers confuse each other
with pronunciation ;-)
(*) Maybe later I might
obscure my number with a better technique, using eg a:
Captcha, but spam robots have already cracked some, &
humans do not like them, so it's unlikely.
+49 89 ________ Desk
+49 ________ Mobile German
+44 ________ Mobile British
+ is international symbol for whatever it takes to get out
of country (used to be 010 in UK, probably also 00 works
now in UK) 00 works in Europe. Mobile phones automatically
emit what's appropriate to where they are if one stores
number as '+' better than '00'.
I am on a normal (non premium, non { mobile=cell=handy} line.
If business just call me. If you're a friend Not calling from
a premium rate or { mobile=cell=handy}, I can call you back if
you remind me (per flat rate of Deutsche Telekom
"CountryFlat(1.4)" (Tariff price 3.31 + MWSt = 3.94
Euro/month at March 2011, for "Die Flatrate fürs
benachbarte Ausland, USA, Kanada, Australien und
Westeuropa"), to any normal terrestrial (non premium, non
mobile) in
America = USA, Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium,
Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain inc Isle of
Man & Channel islands), Greece, Ireland, Italy,
Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Czech Republik
(Tschechien), Vatican City.
- USA & Canada mobiles as 0, yet Britain &
Austria as 28 cents/min. !
- Doesn't list Deutschland, which would have been
useful to see mobile rates to Telekom's & competitive
nets, (info removed to some other page as not foreign I
suppose).
- Not sure about calls to premium rate numbers in other
countries eg UK 08 "You have just been `serviced' ;-)"
numbers.
Nomenclature:Wondering whether to call it Mobile (UK),
Cell (USA), or Handy (German) ?
Call Diversion
When I'm not available at the Munich office, calls are
re-routed, costs you nothing more, saves you using other
numbers, & quality does not suffer (I'm not using
Skype).
Some of these look up services provider a map of roughly where
caller is, so if they are calling you in the middle of the
night, look up their global time, then call them
back in the middle of Their night ;-)
COUNTRY |
NUMBER |
DESCRIPTION |
SOURCE |
DE |
0137 |
EXPENSIVE, 1 euro per call, tele-voting, abused. |
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium-rate_telephone_number#Germany |
DE |
0190 |
EXPENSIVE Rip Off, Old, Terminated 2005-12-31 |
CT Mag year=2005, edition=21
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium-rate_telephone_number#Germany |
DE |
01901-01909 |
Final digit indicates call rate. |
CT Mag year=2005, edition=21 |
DE |
0191 |
Info |
CT Mag year=2005, edition=21 |
DE |
0193 |
Entertainment |
CT Mag year=2005, edition=21 |
DE |
0195 |
Porn |
CT Mag year=2005, edition=21 |
DE |
0900 |
EXPENSIVE. |
CT Mag year=2005, edition=21 |
DE |
09009 |
Obligatory for EXPENSIVE rip off dialer programs |
CT Mag year=2005, edition=21 |
UK |
118 |
Can be Service Charge of more than 7p per minute or per
call |
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium-rate_telephone_number#United_Kingdom |
UK |
01 & 02 & 03 |
Standard rate. |
|
UK |
070 |
Can be Service Charge of more than 10 per minute or per
call |
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium-rate_telephone_number#United_Kingdom |
UK |
080 |
Free from land-lines and
mobiles. |
www.saynoto0870.com |
UK |
0808 |
Free (In USA 808 used by time
waster $5/min) |
www.saynoto0870.com |
UK |
0844 |
EXPENSIVE |
www.saynoto0870.com
www.moneysavingexpert.com/phones/0870-say-no
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium-rate_telephone_number#United_Kingdom
up to 7p per call and/or up to 7p per minute |
UK |
0845 |
EXPENSIVE Calls to 084 and 087 numbers incur both an
Access Charge of up to 12p per minute from land-lines or up
to 55p per minute from mobiles and a Service Charge of up to
7p per minute or per call for 084 numbers or up to 13p per
minute or per call for 087 numbers. |
www.saynoto0870.com
www.moneysavingexpert.com/phones/0870-say-no |
UK |
0847 |
EXPENSIVE |
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium-rate_telephone_number#United_Kingdom
up to 13p per call and/or up to 13p per minute |
UK |
087 |
EXPENSIVE |
www.saynoto0870.com
www.moneysavingexpert.com/phones/0870-say-no |
UK |
0871 |
EXPENSIVE |
www.saynoto0870.com
www.moneysavingexpert.com/phones/0870-say-no |
UK |
09 |
ULTRA EXPENSIVE up to £6.00 per call and/or up to
£3.60 per minute |
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium-rate_telephone_number#United_Kingdom
098 + legacy 0908 & 0909 are sex. |
Phone Scams : A comment
credited to ljk@ :
- Common one is to call someone, tell them to put the phone
down and call their bank, or wherever relevant for the scam if
they are not sure. However on UK landlines, the call is held by
the caller, so when the target puts the phone down and picks it
up again, the scammer generates a ring tone and makes it seem
as though the target has made a new call. The scammer then
answers - usually a different person, and then plays the
scam.
- Basically, never trust anyone who phones up, whether
computer, tax, bank or any other financial topic. Always phone
back the particular organisation fraud team on another phone,
using a number you have, not one the potential fraudsters give
you. If it's obviously a fraud, hopefully the particular
organisation can do something about it.
- If you do get called by one of the scumbags, it is rather
fun to keep them on the line for as long as possible, seeming
like you are an idiot. They usually get rather annoyed. Even
better if you can find out anything about them!!!
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