Recent Telephone Scam
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"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, answering your phone." -- Bilbo
I never answer my phone unless I know I want to talk to the person phoning. Home, mobile, work. If I don't know who you are then you can annoy my voicemail.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I just read the thread about the latest email scam. I had a similar experience on a recent phone call: Me: Hello? Scammer: (Strong Hindu accent) Hello sir. Are you the operator of your computer? Me: Yes. Scammer: Your computer has been identified as being the source of disruptive network traffic. Me: Really? How did you identify that it was my computer? Do you have the IP address that is the source of the problem? Scammer: (Yes, he really said this.) The address is 192.168.1.101. Me: I see. Good Bye. I suspect that he was trying to sell some sort of unneeded cleanup software. I've had a number of calls recently that all share the same basic theme. Nevertheless, a site local IP? Give me a break.
Fletcher Glenn
fglenn wrote:
Strong Hindu accent
You could tell the scammer's religion from his accent!? Cool! :-D /ravi
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I never answer my phone unless I know I want to talk to the person phoning. Home, mobile, work. If I don't know who you are then you can annoy my voicemail.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Tell 'em "na.... were at 10.1.10.101 dude"
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fglenn wrote:
Scammer: (Strong Hindu accent) Hello sir. Are you the operator of your computer?
You mean Indian accent. Hinduism is a religion followed in India and other parts of the world.
Regards, Nish
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Not all Indians speak Hindi, and very few non-Indians can tell the difference between a Hindi-English accent and English accents of people from India whose native language is not Hindi. That said, the stereotyped Indian accent is the Hindi-English accent. With things like V-W confusion, stressed R-sounds, and inability to express the Zee-sound (a soft J-sound is used instead, example Jebra (zebra) or Jero (zero)).
Regards, Nish
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fglenn wrote:
Strong Hindu accent
You could tell the scammer's religion from his accent!? Cool! :-D /ravi
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It's his new caller-id, shows religion and sexual orientation of the caller based on accent :-)
Regards, Nish
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I just read the thread about the latest email scam. I had a similar experience on a recent phone call: Me: Hello? Scammer: (Strong Hindu accent) Hello sir. Are you the operator of your computer? Me: Yes. Scammer: Your computer has been identified as being the source of disruptive network traffic. Me: Really? How did you identify that it was my computer? Do you have the IP address that is the source of the problem? Scammer: (Yes, he really said this.) The address is 192.168.1.101. Me: I see. Good Bye. I suspect that he was trying to sell some sort of unneeded cleanup software. I've had a number of calls recently that all share the same basic theme. Nevertheless, a site local IP? Give me a break.
Fletcher Glenn
HEY! That's my IP address.
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I never answer my phone unless I know I want to talk to the person phoning. Home, mobile, work. If I don't know who you are then you can annoy my voicemail.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
I always answer the phone, you never know it might be an opportunity to be rude to an idiot. I managed to get about 20 minutes from one of these scammers once!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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fglenn wrote:
Scammer: (Strong Hindu accent) Hello sir. Are you the operator of your computer?
You mean Indian accent. Hinduism is a religion followed in India and other parts of the world.
Regards, Nish
Check out 7 reasons C++ devs will love the VS 14 CTP by Nish Sivakumar Blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
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I just read the thread about the latest email scam. I had a similar experience on a recent phone call: Me: Hello? Scammer: (Strong Hindu accent) Hello sir. Are you the operator of your computer? Me: Yes. Scammer: Your computer has been identified as being the source of disruptive network traffic. Me: Really? How did you identify that it was my computer? Do you have the IP address that is the source of the problem? Scammer: (Yes, he really said this.) The address is 192.168.1.101. Me: I see. Good Bye. I suspect that he was trying to sell some sort of unneeded cleanup software. I've had a number of calls recently that all share the same basic theme. Nevertheless, a site local IP? Give me a break.
Fletcher Glenn
This has been happening here in the UK for a couple of years (at least). Caller claims to be from Microsoft support and says they have identified a virus or some other error. According to press reports they get you to download a "virus cleaner" and then charge for it, but they never get that far when they call here. I did string one guy along for a few minutes and then challenged him on the facts - he hung up.
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That's really true of most other religions too. The most common usage of the word is to refer to the religion.
Regards, Nish
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Not all Indians speak Hindi, and very few non-Indians can tell the difference between a Hindi-English accent and English accents of people from India whose native language is not Hindi. That said, the stereotyped Indian accent is the Hindi-English accent. With things like V-W confusion, stressed R-sounds, and inability to express the Zee-sound (a soft J-sound is used instead, example Jebra (zebra) or Jero (zero)).
Regards, Nish
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Nish Sivakumar wrote:
Not all Indians speak Hind
Which doesn't alter the fact that the word you responded to had a one character difference between what the poster said and 'Hindi'. And Hindi is spoken by a large number of Indians and as you pointed out the accent differences mean little to someone not familiar with the different languages.
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Nish Sivakumar wrote:
Not all Indians speak Hind
Which doesn't alter the fact that the word you responded to had a one character difference between what the poster said and 'Hindi'. And Hindi is spoken by a large number of Indians and as you pointed out the accent differences mean little to someone not familiar with the different languages.
I don't disagree, I've noticed that a lot of non-Indians, specially in the US, mix up Hindi, Hindu, etc. and use them interchangeably with Indian.
Regards, Nish
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It's his new caller-id, shows religion and sexual orientation of the caller based on accent :-)
Regards, Nish
Check out 7 reasons C++ devs will love the VS 14 CTP by Nish Sivakumar Blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
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Probably a wrong number, since it's very unlikely that I'll ever directly call you without having you go through 2 levels of my personal secretaries coming into play. :-D
Regards, Nish
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