Nigerian Scammers on the phone

Even though I have my phone number on my blog, I don’t get too many calls – usually valid calls from customers who need help, or from people who want genuine advice.  But on Saturday I had my very first Nigerian scam call.

Me: Hello

Him: Hello, am I speaking to Ms Eileen Brown

Me: Yes, how can I help?

Him: I’m from Nigeria and I found your number on the web

Me: Yerssss…….

Him: and I wondered if you could tell me your email address

Me: Why do you want my email address?

Him: So I can do business with you.

Me: You can’t do business with me, you’ll have to do business with my company

Him: I want to do business with you

Me: Who do I work for then?

Him: I don’t know

Me: Well I suggest that if you don’t know who I work for then you’re going to find it quite hard to do business with me

Him: but I want your email address to do business with you

etc. etc.

This back and forth went on for quite some time, him trying to get my email address from me, and me telling him that if he knew who I worked for it would be really easy to do business with the company.  On and on it went back and forwards until I got bored with his lack of knowledge about who I was and how easy it would be to do business with me.  heck if you search on the web, my email address is on the Technet UK website!

And he didn’t have the sense to hide his number from me either.  Thank you caller ID.

So if you’re bored with the thought of scammers or have ever received a call from Ghana at +233 2402 14572 too, please have some fun too.  After all – he’s paying for the call :-)