Feb 26, 2010
I have fielded numerous calls from this and other such SCAM numbers with similar stories of calls from Banks, cooked-up Lending institutions, etc. As so many of you have noted there is a common thread that it is an obvious phishing scam, and the caller invariably sounds like someone from India.
[Not to get people tangled up in political correctness, et all, I myself was born in India, so I can fully recognize one from "back home" when I hear one. Therefore, I have no issue with calling a spade a spade.]
Recognizing, that these scammers / telemarketers / crooks at the other end of the line are downright rude, aggressive, scum of the earth ... have one fundamental need -> to make money.
I have given up on all failed attempts to request them, yell or swear at them. I have instead opted for the approach to frustrate the heck out of them, by extend the call as much as possible by giving them stupid yet leading answers, with the result the call keeps getting extended, without giving them what they want. Obviously, the caller finally realizes that he is wasting his time. It boils down to a simple question of Economics, where they are not going to be making any money.
... and BTW, having figured out which part of India they belong to, in parting I ask them to go back to New Delhi, and stop using their fake Christian names.
... just my 2 cents.