Hello we have a parcel to deliver

[beast5680]

had a good one on the phone today, lady rings up and asks for the boss so was asked what it concerned and told they needed his full name and address to deliver a parcel :?  whats in the parcel we ask? can we have your name and address so we can deliver! wheres it from then and why no address on it already? whats in the parcel?
she answers its a phone, we havent ordered a phone :?
can i have your address and details please she says
No! are you trying to sell something?
err yes sort of its a new mobile tariff/deal thing
so you dont actually have a parcel do you!
errr no not really
Goodbye...puts phone down

are these people crafty or what

[TimM]

Well done for resisting  =D>

[V8MoneyPit]

On a similar note, we get the same phone call every January and it usually happens several times during January. Someone calls saying "Back in November you kindly agreed to donate to our charity in aid of 'whatever' and we are calling to confirm the details....." We have never agreed to donate to them and we have never even had a call from them in November... we only ever get the ones in January!

I think they rely on a large company with various departments thinking someone else has agreed to it. With only 2 of us working here, that simply doesn't work  :lol: I don't know if it a legitimate charity or not. But either way, it is a dubious way to extract money from people.

[strapping young lad]

got a letter in the post saying something about a parcel require delivery

all it gave was a parcel number and a telephone number and a person to speak to

no company name or owt

weird

[TONY78]

We got the same parcel delivery note, the number to call was £1.50 a min.
Needless to say we didn't bother

[j99mud]

We got the same parcel delivery note, the number to call was £1.50 a min.
Needless to say we didn't bother

We had exactly the same saying they were delivering a camcorder and as coincidence would have it i had put mine in for repair i didnt phone them but it was so convincing all fracked with royal mail so we contacted trading standards and they were very iterested and asked us to send them the letter they are now investigating the matter

[old joe]

i get the same thing at work, then i mention the name of the company and they go very quiet it's amazing you when you tell that you work for a major telecommuniactions company on the security side?

dazza :twisted:

[the loon]

had a good one on the phone today, lady rings up and asks for the boss so was asked what it concerned and told they needed his full name and address to deliver a parcel :?  whats in the parcel we ask? can we have your name and address so we can deliver! wheres it from then and why no address on it already? whats in the parcel?
she answers its a phone, we havent ordered a phone :?
can i have your address and details please she says
No! are you trying to sell something?
err yes sort of its a new mobile tariff/deal thing
so you dont actually have a parcel do you!
errr no not really
Goodbye...puts phone down

are these people crafty or what

Did you get any details of the comapny?
If so I would report them to OFFCOM as they take a very dim view about this sort of thing

[Hangover]

On a similar note, we get the same phone call every January and it usually happens several times during January. Someone calls saying "Back in November you kindly agreed to donate to our charity in aid of 'whatever'

Did you know that some of these are calls from people who sell advertising in magazines which are said to be for the fire service charity etc,they take the money and give a small percentage to the charity and in return you  get an advert in some obscure publication.They mostly call using hidden numbers so i ask them why they have done this and they either hang up or get quite rattled by this,i have been sworn at in the past.
Kev

[V8MoneyPit]

That's the one Kev! Every January, without fail....