My buddy keeps getting phone calls from people claiming to be the IRS and are threatening to take their house if they didn't give them money

The PPI guys who are like dogs with a bone. I once turned my phone on for the first time in a few months and within ten minutes found myself talking to one of those guys who despite my repeated insistence that I've never taken a loan was still yammering on about sending paperwork. I just hung up after a couple of minutes.

A unknown caller messaged me that a relative of mine was captured by terrorists and the only way to save him was to pay like 5 million Pesos (im filipino) but I didnt believe it after a few hours my phone kept crashing and had to get a new one

Some Indians called me saying that my computer has a virus and it needs fixed. I played along with it for awhile and then I just started trolling by acting like I couldn't find the button they were talking about and then they got ticked and hung up.

Here is a tip to everyone that I use!

If anyone wants to call you, then tell those people that they HAVE to call with a number that you'll be able to see and track down.
-If it's a douche saying "Gimme ya moni!" and he calls with a showed number, you can call the Police and they'll track em down for you. Unless you're a hacker, then you can do it yourself-
Then if a number calls you with an "Unknown" identity ignore it and keep playing MineCraft.

I know that some of you may have importen stuff that calls you with unknown number, but always remember to ignore the phone IF someone calls you without showing their number.

I've tried many times that unknown numbers has called me, and after that they've never called me again because I didn't pick it up.

Anyway, have a great day everyone!

*female voice* "Hello, this is Angelina and there is something about your computer. We have det-"
*my voice* "I do not want to talk about my computer. Bye."

A guy, sounding like he was Indian rang up with an unknown number. My brother played along with him until he said, I need your credit card details. My brother said he was going to call the police, now here is the freaky part. The guy said, I AM THE POLICE and laughed, then hung up.

Those pesky windows support scam calls, where they say you have a virus on your windows computer, when you have all linux or mac computers, and they still try to tell you that they have a virus.

But I want them to call me D: I want to troll them so bad.

They asked me if I wanted to buy a cheap updog, but I was low on cash anyway and refused. To this day I do not know what an updog is used for. It's ok, they would probably send me a low quality unit anyway.

Eh. Nobody calls me. The worst I've gotten are text messages saying your credit number is at risk, please entire this microsoft security number, blahblahblah.

ZonkedCompanionSolution to unsolicited calls:

Answer all "unknown" phone calls with a 130db rape alarm.

OR

Answer all "unknown" phone calls with the sentence - "...its done but there's blood everywhere..." then hang up.

this made me laugh so hard

Well, once I got a call from someone who worked for, and I quote "Windows operating system". now THAT was funny. Also i get emails from "lloyds tsb" ( notice the quotation marks) saying that my bank is for screening and i need to login to a dodgy website, even though i dont even have a bank account with loyds XD

I was once sat on the sofa with my family and we were watching TV, then suddenly the phone rang. My mum picked it up and answered. It was another Indian person ringing about our windows. My mum replied with a pretend sneeze. We then hung up.
Sorry, that was so boring xD.

Yeah in the UK we get 0800 calls which are just people trying to sell you rubbish. I personally hate them, but from now on when I get one I'm definitely gonna prank call.

I have a system for dealing with this. I actually look forward to some sales calls :3
Last time I got one I was on my computer. They said some stuff about PPI, so I put the phone next to my speaker and played the troll song full blast
I also got a phone call once where they claimed I'd won a free iPhone and I should give them my email to receive it. I told them I was PERFECTLY fine with my Nokia 100

Me: Hello?

Guy on the other end: Hello, can I speak to [My mums name]?

Me: Nah, there's nobody at home right now, we're at a fancy restaurant.

Guy: Okay. Thank you.

No kidding.

I once got a letter in the mail from "The FBI" claiming that someone had downloaded a pirated movie on our WiFi connection. The only thing was we didnt have internet at the time. The address that we were supposed to return our payment was somewhere in Indiana.. No where near the FBI HQ

Some teenager kept texting my dad thinking he was someone else. O3O
Then my dad sent a picture of us to her, and she stopped messaging him.

I got a call from a strange number once. He stated that he was a Microsoft employee, and that I had a computer issue of some kind.

He wanted to guide me step by step on what to do, however I wasn't going to follow any instructions until he answered a few of my questions.

I kept asking him "will this require Administrator Privelages (User Account Control)", however every time I asked him that, he reassured me that he was a microsoft employee. I simply kept asking him until he gave me a yes or no.

He eventually gave up and told me "Have a good day sir" in a somewhat angry tone, and hung up.

As the computer administrator of my household, I know what I am doing, and I know when I, or anyone else in my household, gets a virus.

This never happened on the phone, but I had this one company (they were actually a legit company) harass me for months at the beginning of this year. They kept banging on the door and ringing the doorbell like they were the police, sometimes even screaming "HELLO? WE KNOW YOU'RE THERE!". I looked out the window upstairs once and could see them going down the street with their truck, door to door, doing the exact same thing. Once they drove around the neighborhood, honking their horn like crazy every time they passed a house. I decided to look this company up online (I won't give out its name) and it turns out they're infamous for overpriced electronics and horrible customer service. However, this bunch of employees that kept harassing the neighborhood were going the extra mile. I guess someone reported them to the neighborhood because they didn't come back for a while. However, one day in March it all started again. This time they sounded even angrier, probably because they knew somebody tried to report them. Finally, I cracked and decided to go to their store after hours. I left a letter for the manager reporting these employees, hoping this would make them worried that they would lose their jobs for real this time. Though I never got a reply, it seemed to have worked, as they haven't been seen since. I assume they've been fired

Hmm, I don't know if this was a scam because nothing bad really happened, that I know of. O.o

Anyways, I got a call a few days ago, from a random number. I answered it, and when I said "Hello", the automated thing immediately said "Goodbye" and it hung up. I thought it was pretty funny but then It started to creep me out, xD.

Haha the best thing to do when you get phone scam calls is put a baby on the phone and watch as the scammer says "Is your mother there?" and the baby keeps on babbling until the scammer hangs up

ZonkedCompanionSolution to unsolicited calls:

Answer all "unknown" phone calls with a 130db rape alarm.

OR

Answer all "unknown" phone calls with the sentence - "...its done but there's blood everywhere..." then hang up.

Do this, ALWAYS. I never get these calls. But if i do. Ima do one of these.

I love the idea of trolling them!
I still want to convince them while on the phone to them that I do not own a phone.

I almost did troll them once, but Mum wouldn't let me put them on speaker and play "Star Trekkin" to the guy. :C Much sadness.

once someone with an indian accent called and told me, in english (slightly suspicious?), that they would fix my computer and that they were from microsoft. would've been a really stupid scam, but coincidently, my computer had broken a few days ago, and i thought my dad had called customer service or something. i realized they were scamming me, though, once they asked me to install some software so they could control my computer wirelessly and fix it... xD

I really wish one of these "Windows virus support" guys would call me :/

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My dad is the worst when it comes to these. He picks it up and they're like
"hullo sir we neeeed to fix your compooter(Thick indian accent)"
then mi dad is like
"Please take me off your caller list" then hangs up

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Someone texted me, saying they saw me on Skype...

I didn't have Skype at that time... LOL

For a while I was getting stupid phones call trying to scam me from strange numbers. A couple of days later an phone call came through from a place I was trying to get a part time job at. My brother picked up the phone and thought it was one of the scams.

He shouted down the phone "What the hell is wrong with you people, don't ever call back". Needless to say, I did not get the job.

I laugh when a phone call comes, I just give to my mum, continue playing Minecraft. Then I hear her in the next room "U CALLED ME NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND AND U WANT MY CREDIT CARD DETAILS!!! I QM NOT GOING THROUGH WITH THESE SURVEYS SO PUT ON YOUR STUPID INTERNET NOTES THAT I DONT WANT TO TALK TO U!!!

I continue laughing with my sister in the next room lol

Right before dinner one night (I was just about to sit down), my phone went off.

I answered and said "Hello?", and what I heard on the other end was something like:

"Hello. Did you know that every 30 seconds, a house gets robbed?" and it was obviously an automated voice, I just hung up right then.

Idk why, but we always get calls from random strangers though. Nothing else really though.

One time at my birthday party my friends and I made prank phone calls.
We called Papa John's and asked directions to Pizza Hut.
We called Burger King and asked for Kung Pao chicken and rice.
We called this girl and said she needed to register for wait watchers.
Awesome. Sorry for everyone who got phone scammed, probably us haha!

When I accidentally tapped a wrong number and hung up instantly.

I wish a "Microsoft Employee" would call me and tell me I have a virus. I would have so much fun. lol

This isn't really a scam, but I keep getting called by telemarketers that only speak Spanish. I want them to stop calling me, but I don't speak Spanish, I don't want to change my number, and my provider charges more per months for blocked numbers.