Farewell, nice knowing you all.....

[mickle]

K bye.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Can’t you just leave the harbour and go to the Bahamas in your super yacht?

 

[Grant Fondo]

I may be going away for some time.

I have just seconds ago received a recorded phone call from HMRC telling me I am being investigated for tax fraud and must press #1 to be connected to an operator. I didn't press #1 and the message said in the case of not pressing #1 a warrant will be issued and I will be arrested shortly......

I am now hiding behind the sofa and will not answer the door.... Wish me luck

I got the same bot call yesterday. Someone's hilarious idea of a jape during lockdown. Bloody idiots.

 

[Beebo]

BT have been threatening to turn off my boardband for the last 2 years, due to unusual activity, but they never do.
I wonder if they class CC as unusual activity?

 

[Rocky]

Give it to you

And what would I do with it?

 

[HMS_Dave]

At least they gave you a head start... You could have been in Marbella by now...

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I may be going away for some time.

I have just seconds ago received a recorded phone call from HMRC telling me I am being investigated for tax fraud and must press #1 to be connected to an operator. I didn't press #1 and the message said in the case of not pressing #1 a warrant will be issued and I will be arrested shortly......

I am now hiding behind the sofa and will not answer the door.... Wish me luck

You must always press whichever number they advise you to press, it is your civic duty to waste as much of their time as possible, whilst you are wasting theirs they can't be harrassing some poor other sap who may fall for their con

Don't worry, I'm sure it will take them a long time to travel from Nigeria. Then there's the quarantine.

You have to be joking, anyone can walk, fly, sail into the UK with no restrictions, Brazil for instance

 

[MichaelW2]

There are 33 countries with which Britain does not have an extradition agreement: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Bhutan, Cameroon, China, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Georgia, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Mongolia, Namibia, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, UAE, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Venezuela and Yemen

 

[Rocky]

There are 33 countries with which Britain does not have an extradition agreement: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Bhutan, Cameroon, China, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Georgia, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Mongolia, Namibia, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, UAE, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Venezuela and Yemen

I’d add Manchester to that list

 

[rikki]

There are 33 countries with which Britain does not have an extradition agreement: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Bhutan, Cameroon, China, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Georgia, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Mongolia, Namibia, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, UAE, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Venezuela and Yemen

Are these lists available for other countries?
Asking for a friend.

 

[slowmotion]

You must always press whichever number they advise you to press, it is your civic duty to waste as much of their time as possible, whilst you are wasting theirs they can't be harrassing some poor other sap who may fall for their con

That's not a good idea. I've heard you get put through to a premium rate number costing £3.50 per minute and they are very good at keeping you talking.

This could be utter rubbish of course.

 

[Cycling_Samurai]

I may be going away for some time.

I have just seconds ago received a recorded phone call from HMRC telling me I am being investigated for tax fraud and must press #1 to be connected to an operator. I didn't press #1 and the message said in the case of not pressing #1 a warrant will be issued and I will be arrested shortly......

I am now hiding behind the sofa and will not answer the door.... Wish me luck

Duly noted. Please continue to wait behind your couch. Officers will be upon you soon!

 

[MntnMan62]

I get 2 or 3 of these calls a week, along with calls from credit card companies looking to lower my interest rate and apology calls from the utility company for overcharging me. Since I’m not especially busy these days, I press whatever number they tell me to. I have yet to be charged for any of these calls. I also find it extremely interesting that no matter which call I am on, the person on the other end always has the same accent. I believe it is Pakistani because I was able to get one of them talking for quite a while and when I asked where he was, he said Pakistan. I get a kick out of finding ways to keep them on the phone for as long as I can. One of the most common comebacks I get from them is that last night he “f***ed my mother.” My comeback is “That’s interesting because my mother is dead. So, you like f***ing corpses?” They don’t know what to say, tell me to go f*** myself and hang up. They aren’t very original and it’s pretty easy to mess with them. And, it’s fun.

 

[annedonnelly]

HMRC would like you to report those calls. The webpage is here

 

[lazybloke]

I've been getting these calls on my work mobile.
The scrotes spoof a similar caller id number so it looks like a work call.