Day 35: Grandpa Versus the Bank Scammers
A young lawyer in Moscow phones his grandfather in Pskov, worried because someone from a 'bank security service' has called the old man.
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Dialogue
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A
Дед, привет! Мама сказала, тебе звонили из какой-то службы безопасности банка. Ты им ничего не сказал?
Hi, Grandpa! Mum said someone from some bank security service called you. You didn't tell them anything, did you?
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B
Сказал, Митя, и много чего. Я этим аферистам сорок минут зубы заговаривал.
I did, Mitya, and plenty. I spent forty minutes talking those crooks' heads off.
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A
Сорок минут?! Дед, это же мошенники, они так стариков и облапошивают. Ты код из СМС не называл?
Forty minutes?! Grandpa, they're scammers, that's exactly how they swindle old people. You didn't give them the code from the text message?
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B
Погоди паниковать. Звонит вежливый молодой человек: мол, кто-то в Хабаровске якобы снимает деньги с моей карты.
Don't panic yet. A polite young man calls: someone in Khabarovsk, he says, is supposedly taking money off my card.
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A
Классика. А потом, дескать, чтобы отменить операцию, надо срочно продиктовать код?
Classic. And then, so he claims, to cancel the transaction you urgently have to read out the code?
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B
Точно. А я ему: погоди, сынок, очки найду... Потом связь барахлила, потом кот по кнопкам топтался.
Exactly. And I tell him: hang on, sonny, let me find my glasses... Then the line kept playing up, then the cat trampled all over the buttons.
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A
Дед, ты, конечно, артист, но это опасная игра. А если бы ты случайно назвал настоящий код?
Grandpa, you're quite the performer, but that's a dangerous game. What if you'd given them a real code by accident?
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B
Какой настоящий, Митя? У меня в этом банке отродясь счёта не было, я пенсию в другом получаю.
What real code, Mitya? I've never had an account at that bank in my life, I get my pension at another one.
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A
Так ты с самого начала знал, что тебя разводят, и сорок минут водил их за нос?
So you knew from the start they were trying to con you, and you strung them along for forty minutes?
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B
А чем ещё радиоинженеру на пенсии развлекаться? Пусть лучше со мной лясы точат, чем доверчивую бабульку обчистят.
What else is a retired radio engineer to do for fun? Better they shoot the breeze with me than clean out some trusting old lady.
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A
Логика железная, не поспоришь. Но в следующий раз всё-таки клади трубку сразу, а то я тут чуть не поседел.
Iron logic, can't argue with that. But next time, do just hang up straight away, I nearly went grey over here.
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