Ring Ring...
(me) PPI, this is Andy.
(him) Yes, this is Bill with customer service, I need to get some numbers off of your copier
(me) I'm sorry, who did you say you're with?
(him) *click*
What is up with this? Is there some new scam where they use your photocopier information to sign you up for a years worth of supplies or what? Second time he called too. My office manager would have dealt with him earlier, but she had too many calls at the time and left him on hold.
For what it's worth, we have a high-end color printer, scanner, etc. all-in-one machine that was just recently serviced. I think it makes coffee too, but I do well enough if my copies come out.
OK, are you ready?
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Now, read them back to me....
This is an old scam coming around again. I was getting these calls back in the late 70's.
Is your copier running?:whistle:
They want to know what brand and model number your copier is, so they can blitz you with advertising specials for paper, toner and other things. When they would ask us for any info on our copier, we would tell them that we got rid of it. When they asked why, we would tell them that we got tired of all the shysters calling us and trying to sell us toner...click...
I usually give them some imaginary answer, like the company went bankrupt last year. This mornings caller wanted to give us a free home security system. I told him I had been evicted and was living out of my car, but then he wanted to know where it was parked so he could send someone over. Geez.
ah, next time i get the call i will reference my old system, kyocera with a peerless adapter. awesome printer. we went years with a service contract, then when the peerless component broke, the service folks could not help. they stopped making the part... :'(
Perry just tells them he uses the Scriptorium 1200 hand copying system, but then again, he's a Luddite.
Light table and tracing paper...
DDSM:beer:
We made up an imaginery employee at our firm named Helen Waite. when we received those calls, we would respond with "Oh I'm not the person in charge of that, you need to go to Helen Waite."
Quite a few times they were on hold for a while. We made up business cards and everything.
> What is up with this?
I don't now, but if it's connected to your network, and it has a hard drive like most "high-end" ones do these days those numbers could be IP addresses - or something - that could be used to access the contents of the hard drive - ie/ scans of everything that has ever been printed, copied, or scanned on the thing. Likely some very personal info there.
A day or two ago I received one of those idiotic calls from someone wanting to sell me some magic elixir to pour down the drain so that my septic tank and laterals will suddenly be completely cleared of all nasty stuff. They can never answer the simple question, "So where does it all go?"
