In the last few weeks I got two scam calls, both with an Indian accent. (I didn't think that India was hitting you blokes.)
The MicroSoft security call that my computer was supposed to be doing something bad to the network and needed a software fix. This guy was so bad and it was obvious that he was reading a script. I played along and asked, "Which computer?" He had no clue as to how to deal with that question. "The one thats you are sitting next to right now." I said, "I spent half the night installing numbers 2783 and 2784. I don't keep any computers here at home." Still not too bright he said either one can solve the problem. Then I said that if he would hold on I would drive to the server farm and we could install the software. (He had called a land line.) I told him that the server farm was about an hour away in the traffic. Then he figured out that he was an idiot and hung up.
The IRS (Internal Revenue Service) was calling demanding that I pay up immediately. I asked how I should do that. It was the typical Moneygram scam. I told him that we have a problem. He started getting belligerent and I said that in the meth-lab explosion I lost the lower part of my legs and couldn't drive. Then I added that my wife just got out of jail after being arrested the ninth time for drunk driving. This time it was really bad as the judge too the car away but I still have to make payments and keep up the insurance. I expect that the clerk of the court is now driving the Bentley. He started swearing and hung up.
It has been awhile but for the grandparent scam I usually usually tell them that as for bail money, "If you got yourself arrested and put in jail, then just get yourself out of jail and don't involve us." They usually get exceptionally P O'd. We don't have any grandkids.
