Tales from the front

[Johnny Thunder]

Two of my brothers are in the Police force. They both have the occasional interesting story too.

[Emaresee]

This thread is genius... Shred like a duck remains the highest point. PeeJay i tip my hat to your patience, and diligence. The job ad caused goosebumps. The rest huge giggles... Thx for sharing!

[Roy_Drage]

Great stories, strangely familiar !

[ValeTudoGuy]

Part of me would like to hear the other side the story though.... You know, the non jaded side.

[Sludgie]

Great thread this! Each addition always makes me laugh!

[PeeJay]

I hope no one on here is gullible enough to fall for this but your friends and relatives might be. We're seeing a big rise in people getting cold calls from someone claiming to be working on behalf of Microsoft who have identified a problem with your PC. Fortunately they can fix it remotely... you can guess the rest. Locked PC and a ransom demand to unlock it.

[PeeJay]

And on a lighter note I took a call today from a girl called Cushelle, do you think her parents realised? I really respect the French having an approved list of names.

[Johnny Thunder]

Shitty name.

[PeeJay]

Weirdest call of the day so far, someone from Google has just rung and asked me a question!

[RDBM]

Did you get it right

[PeeJay]

Did you get it right

Of course

[Wigan]

Weirdest call of the day so far, someone from Google has just rung and asked me a question!

No way I didn't realise that was how it worked. I am going to google my name and see if the house phone goes.....

[Emaresee]

PeeJay.... There has to be a book in this!

[Paulie2876]

I've had the Microsoft call a few times, I normally just hang up on them. I've also had the we're doing a survey one a few times too. The funniest one I had was someone trying to sell me insurance for my sky box "okay sir that'll be ?9 a month, I just need your bank account number and sort code" I say "are you having a laugh? There's no way I'm giving you that over the phone, send me a direct debit mandate and I'll send it back" he then says "do you not trust me?" I say " why should I?" " because I'm from Sky television" "I don't know who you are and besides any one from sky wouldn't ask for these details over the phone bye"

[TonyN]

I hope no one on here is gullible enough to fall for this but your friends and relatives might be. We're seeing a big rise in people getting cold calls from someone claiming to be working on behalf of Microsoft who have identified a problem with your PC. Fortunately they can fix it remotely... you can guess the rest. Locked PC and a ransom demand to unlock it.

This year alone have had that call 3 times as soon as I say I haven't got a computer they slam the phone down
old age pensioner only last week had his life savings stolen by the above call all it took was 5 minutes.