Recent Telephone Scam
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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
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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
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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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