Every freakin year... domain scammers

I have a bunch of domain names that I've used for various things over the years.

Just got the obligatory call last night, always some barely intelligible Asian sounding guys/girls.

I've tried over the years being as rude and obnoxious as I possible can, doesn't help, next year around domain renewal times they call trying to scam me, sounding like they are the ones handling my domains and that I need to "update" them to "new servers" or whatever **** they come up with, I handle my own domains.

Now I just try to keep them on the phone stringing them along trying to waste as much of their time as I can, first sounding like I'm not interested... then faking interest asking them for "help" moving domains (And failing miserably, more time waisted)

I was having a hard time last night not cracking up, I got almost 45 min out of them before they gave up.

Evil? Yeah..  Fun?... oh hell yeah

Anyone else getting scammer calls?

Guitarhacker


I don't have patience.... I hang up.

I don't have domains...

I use domain guard that allows me to list anonymously on who is. No calls, no scams, no hassle! Now I just need to figure out how I can get all the political lobbies to quit calling my house!

I just had a "bill" for $65 from "DNS Services"  based in Vancouver, WA. It says it's for "Managed DNS Backup Business Services." It looks exactly like an invoice, and there's a tear off strip with which you can make your payment. It has the name of my website on it, as well as information about the name servers linked to it. 

I've had this website for 7 years so I'm used to annual renewal fees for the hosting and the name, but I've never had anything like this. So I read the small print. It says "This is a solicitation for the order of goods or services, and not a bill, invoice or statement of account due. You are under no obligation to make any payments on account of this offer unless you accept this offer." 

So there you have it. An "offer," disguised as an invoice made to look as though I owe them money. These lowlifes are really getting desperate. I wonder how many people will receive this letter and just write the check thinking that it's part of their normal annual website fees? 

That said, I'm also sick of the companies who claim to be "affiliated with Google" and who call you claiming that they can help your business listing reach the #1 spot in Google Places.  I get a couple of these every week. I used to just hang up but recently I've been taking the opportunity to take a swing at them. I ask them "are you an official affiliate of Google" over and over until I get them to admit that no, they're just some lowlife company trying to scam me and using Google's name as a sweetener. 

sharke


If you've enjoyed annoying a telemarketer, you'll love this - it's hilarious. I love this guy. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZYi6cAk4t8&

Love it...I'm going to try one of these 

String them along if you want them to stay strung.

sharke


If you've enjoyed annoying a telemarketer, you'll love this - it's hilarious. I love this guy. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZYi6cAk4t8&

 
This is so funny. Has me in tears from laughing. I need to bookmark this one for those 'blah' days. Thanks for the link.

Kenneth

sharke


I just had a "bill" for $65 from "DNS Services"  based in Vancouver, WA. It says it's for "Managed DNS Backup Business Services." It looks exactly like an invoice, and there's a tear off strip with which you can make your payment. It has the name of my website on it, as  

I used to get those fake bills to, but it was from "Domain registry of America" or something similar, every year.

Made to look very official, just had to fill it out to pay them.. not.

It's much more fun over the phone, I'm from DK so whenever someone calls me speaking English (Useually Engrish) there's no doubt it's another scammer. It's easy just to fake interest and acting stupid so they have to explain everything in detail, then fail at it again and again, if they speak broken english fake misunderstanding them so they have to explain what they mean constantly. Should be able to get at least 15 min. out of them.

I've never had those problems, but I've always gone with Network Solutions. I've had too many problems with hosting provider based registrations, and I don't trust the low-ballers like GoDaddy and the like. Also, it's not just the registration - if I'm paying for a domain registration, I demand to be able to create sub-domains, MX servers, and the whole lot.  Maybe the low-ballers have stepped up there game since then - but the scammers seem to avoid Network Solutions clients.