I don't know if it's because the wife has signed up to an M&S special offer, or we are just really lucky, but we seem to be on Johnny spammers telephone hit list.
Today's was the standard low quality phone call and Asian voice, (sorry not a stereotype but a sad fact, most of these calls originate from India).
Apparently my computer is running slow, which BT happen to know, and dispatched super techies to the rescue. After reverting to a variety of accents, none of which seemed to put my master scammer off, I settled on doddery old fart fumbling around, leaving him on hold for a bit while I did some work.
After he realised I was incapable of working my way round a computer to give him the information he needed (and access to log on and send me a virus) he eventually sent me to fastheal.net a ropey and dated looking "security" website.
I particularly like the 2013 xmas message 
Now for what they want is for you to select the "connect to technician 3" which will download a spyware application called soft3.exe.
Obviously at this stage I couldn't keep the ruse up any longer so started really taking the mickey to which I seem to have got under his skin, as instead of the usual putting the phone down, I initially got a full denial he was a scammer, and insisted he was working for BT. Then he wanted proof to know how I knew he was a scammer 
Really...
It finally ended with lots of profanity and him telling me I needed to shove my finger somewhere? Must be a local custom 
But was a good distraction and a bit of fun.
BT will never phone you to tell your computer is running slow
Likewise, your computer will never contact BT to tell them its running slow. Plus BT have a much better phone system, let alone some mickey mouse virus ridden scam website.
On a serious note, for scammers to be this bad, there really must be a lot of gullible or vulnerable people getting targeted and ripped off. It was clearly a call centre and no doubt they are making call after call.
I wish there was more we could do to stop these vermin, but these parasites seem to be a product of the modern age.
If you know vulnerable or elderly folk, just make sure they understand about these scams and get them to put the phone down straight away.
