You would think after 50 plus years that the Toner Pirates would have disappeared my hearties.
One of my clients was approached via voice mail today in a phone message that was translated to text. Thank goodness this old seadog spotted the scam right away when I viewed the email my client sent me.
In the old days toner pirates that gave no quarter. Those pirates would go right for the jugular with the make and model of the copier. The stating they are your copier supplier and prices are going up, so order NOW. Many clients were duped for thousands of dollars of overprice generic toner.
I'm sure if my client picked up the phone the caller would have a great ahoy and used the same pitch that's been used for years.
Just maybe the toner pirates have lost some of their swagger because the message stated they were from Canon Business Communication. Which would raise the hairs on the back of my neck because they were calling on a client that had a fleet of Ricoh production devices.
The hornswaggler wanted to speak to someone in the office about the refill on the Ricoh MP 8320. Of course my client thought that this might be legit call because they new the model number of the his device(s). What I thought was unique this time around was "about the refill on the Ricoh MP 8320". I've never heard is presented this way.
In any event the freebooter had no luck with this client.
Of course I had to tell my client the story of the toner pirates and how hey get the model numbers of the devices. Yes, it brought back the memories when we hearing about toner pirates was a monthly occurrence because they had swagged a companies booty.
-=Good Selling=-
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