It’s not quite the same, but we have had a lot of calls wanting us to take part in a survey. Our reply - which isn’t something we thought up ourselves - goes something like this: “Hello, certainly, we are happy to participate in your survey, but this Is a consultancy business and we do bill for our time. How long is your survey likely to take? Ten minutes? I’m sorry, but it’s company policy that we cannot bill for less than an hour. We’re still happy to participate, but the charge will be £500. How will you be paying for that?” I’ve never had a survey call last longer than that. The other scam calls we get tell us that we have a virus on our computer. “Which one? We have seven! Tell us the IP address of the one with the problem. Okay, the MAC address if you can’t do the IP address. You don’t know what an IP address is? What kind of virus checker are you? No I can’t load anything onto these machines without quarantining it first…” etc.
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