In this day and age, are people really still falling for scams like this?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33220557
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33220557
Off Topic Phone scam!
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Indeed, some Nigerian manages to contact you to help him bank some money. Yeah, like that would happen. FFS!
They'll have to get up bloody early to catch me!
Plus catch you on a day you can be bothered to put your teeth in to answer the phone.
You've got to feel sorry for all the real Nigerian princes struggling to get their money out of the country, wondering why no one will help.
Every other day without fail an Indian fella will call our private office line at work and ask to speak to a 'Mr Brown'. Now we don't have a 'Mr Brown', never have had a 'Mr Brown' work for us and in all probability will never have a 'Mr Brown' work for us, but this this fecking Indian keeps on bloody calling. On one occasion I played along with him and he advised me that my PC (don't have a PC btw we're on network it's what I'm using right now), was being hacked and that my personal details were being compromised. After much swearing and me calling him a cnut he eventually hung up. Two days later another Indian fella calls up asking to speak to 'Mr Brown' 
Every other day without fail an Indian fella will call our private office line at work and ask to speak to a 'Mr Brown'. Now we don't have a 'Mr Brown', never have had a 'Mr Brown' work for us and in all probability will never have a 'Mr Brown' work for us, but this this fecking Indian keeps on bloody calling. On one occasion I played along with him and he advised me that my PC (don't have a PC btw we're on network it's what I'm using right now), was being hacked and that my personal details were being compromised. After much swearing and me calling him a cnut he eventually hung up. Two days later another Indian fella calls up asking to speak to 'Mr Brown'
A friend of mine, many years ago over the course of about a week, telephoned the same number asking to speak to John Smith, he was politely told he had the wrong number as there was no John Smith there. After a week he called the number one last time and said,"John Smith here, have there been any calls for me?"
Every other day without fail an Indian fella will call our private office line at work and ask to speak to a 'Mr Brown'. Now we don't have a 'Mr Brown', never have had a 'Mr Brown' work for us and in all probability will never have a 'Mr Brown' work for us, but this this fecking Indian keeps on bloody calling. On one occasion I played along with him and he advised me that my PC (don't have a PC btw we're on network it's what I'm using right now), was being hacked and that my personal details were being compromised. After much swearing and me calling him a cnut he eventually hung up. Two days later another Indian fella calls up asking to speak to 'Mr Brown'
Given that Brown has historically been in the top 3/4 most common UK surnames I'd say that going by the laws of probability it is more than likely that you will have a Mr Brown working for you at some point.