So simply put, in this episode I pretend to do everything the telemarketers asks, except when we get to the screen that’s supposed to say I have viruses I tell him it says my computer is virus free.  What’s interesting though, is before we hang up he tells me that I wasn’t “performing” what he told me to do.  So I guess the result of this exercise is to always produce a negative result.

I apologize for the buzz, I had the record level set a bit too high on my recorder.

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Yet another Certified Windows Technician. And yet again I pretend to work for the phone company. I think the guy gets pretty frustrated at me, but I manage to keep him on the line either way.

I’m thinking I need to tweak my script a bit to get more information out of caller. Does anyone have any suggestions I should make to the script?

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Unwanted Calls – Episode#8 – Skytel Support

September 23, 2011
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This episode is short and sweet. Essentially, I tricked the telemarketer to reveal who his phone provider is and where his call centre is located. His call centre is located in India, and his phone provider is SkyTel in India. I’ve tried calling SkyTel to report that one of their customers is sending out fraudulent [...]

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Unwanted Calls – Episode #7 – The Credit Card Company

September 22, 2011
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New scam in this episode. I receive a call from the Lower Interest Rate Department who claims to work for all the major banks in Canada, Ontario. The department has such a good relationship with the banks, the telemarketers say that if you were to call your bank they would mistreat you so badly and [...]

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Unwanted Calls – Episode #6 – Log Me Out

September 12, 2011
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In this episode I receive another call from a “Certified Microsoft Technician.” This time when the scammer tries to get me open Event Viewer, I’ll tell him that everything checks out okay, and all I see are green check marks saying my system is good. Later he tries to get me to use Log Me [...]

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Unwanted Calls – Episode #5 – Duct Cleaning Services

August 17, 2011
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In this episode I receive a telemarketing call from Air Duct Cleaning Services based in Toronto. I get into a discussion with the telemarketer and try to figure out how they will send a crew from Toronto all the way to my house in Thunder Bay.  The caller id on my phone showed up as [...]

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Unwanted Calls – Episode #4 – Do Not Call List

August 3, 2011
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In this episode of Unwanted Calls, we received a call from a new scam asking us to sign up for the “Do Not Call List.” The telemarketer says her company is based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. Her company will remove my number from “open databases available on the internet,” and if I do [...]

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New iPhone App Released

July 1, 2011
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My latest iPhone and iPod Touch app is now available in the App Store.  MealJournal is a app to help eating disorder patients keep food records of their food intake, as well as their thoughts and feelings. Often those trying to overcome an eating disorder, as part of their clinical treatment, are asked to keep [...]

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Unwanted Calls – Episode #3 – Wife is Going to Kill Me

June 7, 2011
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In this episode of Unwanted Calls, I receive yet another call from a Microsoft Technician informing me that my computer has a virus.  For this call I pretend to be married, and having used my wife’s computer last night, I believe that I may have infected her computer.

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Unwanted Calls – Episode #2

May 19, 2011
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This one is short and sweet because my recorder failed on me. I’m very disappointed, because I managed to get the guy to talk about what he had for lunch, at which point I got transfered to his supervisor. So here is the first few seconds of my call with Telus Mobility.

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