agent817
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Post by agent817 on Jul 13, 2016 16:33:52 GMT -5
You know what I mean. You'd get a call from someone out of nowhere about how "your computer is going through some issues." The caller turns out to have a heavy Indian accent claiming to call from Microsoft and uses a simple name like Greg, Adam, etc. I have also dealt with a couple of female callers in the past. The last time that happened I turned the tables on them and chewed the caller out. The caller asked me if I was drunk and what I was afraid of. I have seen videos on YouTube where people troll these scammers. Those videos crack me up. Have you ever received any of these calls before?
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Jul 13, 2016 16:43:04 GMT -5
My mom let one of those fake Microsoft people in.
I've gotten one or two. I always think of clever ways of messing with them after the fact but usually I just hang up on them.
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jagilki
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Post by jagilki on Jul 13, 2016 16:46:14 GMT -5
I just got one about 15 mins ago. I only let them get as far as "I'm from Microsoft Support and your Cmpu"
*hang up*
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Post by 01010010 01101001 01100011 on Jul 13, 2016 16:49:10 GMT -5
Every f***ing day, multiple times a day. Them and "(female name) from Card Services". I've given up on doing anything other than ignoring them or hanging up.
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Malcolm
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Post by Malcolm on Jul 13, 2016 16:50:50 GMT -5
The first time this happened to me, I almost fell for it until I did a quick google search at nearly the last minute. Now I just hang up.
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Bo Rida
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Post by Bo Rida on Jul 13, 2016 17:04:57 GMT -5
Every f***ing day, multiple times a day. Them and "(female name) from Card Services". I've given up on doing anything other than ignoring them or hanging up. I had a similar problem and one time told them they must have the wrong number as I use Linux, he didn't seem to know what to do and hung up. I repeated that the next time and it seems to have cut down the calls a lot although they still ring from time to time. Amusingly they once claimed to be from Linux instead, ignoring the obvious flaw with that I told them not to worry about it as I'd just bought a Mac, they haven't tried that one since. |
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Post by FinalGwen on Jul 13, 2016 18:05:47 GMT -5
While my dad hangs up on them, I take delight in playing the uninformed family-member needing to be coached through doing anything on the computer.
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agent817
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Post by agent817 on Jul 13, 2016 20:30:16 GMT -5
I remember my mom received a call like this and she had to put on the Norton scanner up. I told her that it is all a scam. A couple of times I received calls from them and told them to "F Off" and hung up on them. One time I said "My computer is fine, thank you very much" and hung up.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jul 13, 2016 20:44:24 GMT -5
I've had it once. Played dumb and went through the process with them as instructed, up until the point where they asked for my IP address, at which point I asked "Do you need to be connected to the Internet for that?" They obviously replied yes, and asked me to connect to the internet, to which I replied that I couldn't as I had no internet access on my laptop and that it had yet to ever actually be connected to the internet.
They promptly hung up on me.
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Post by Ishmeal Loves Kaseyhausen on Jul 13, 2016 20:46:13 GMT -5
I just got one about 15 mins ago. I only let them get as far as "I'm from Microsoft Support and your Cmpu" *hang up* I got the same call about an hour ago. Said "don't call me again" and hung up. It was the fourth time they called today. |
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Post by ThereIsNoAbsurdistOnlyZuul on Jul 13, 2016 23:26:03 GMT -5
I work tech support.
One woke me up and I answered. He said he was with microsoft and wanted to talk to me about my Windows computer.
Now it was a Washington DC center, and I know that Microsoft doesn't have a Washington DC based support center.
But whatever, so I answered with "Which one?" And he was all "Your Windows computer." And then I was like "Yeah, I heard ya, which one?"
Awkward pause.
"How many do you have sir?"
Wait a beat.
"Working? Like 2 or 3? I mean if you are offering to help I got a Kubuntu machine I could use some assistance with... Was thinking about switching to Mint..."
*Click*
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jul 14, 2016 1:05:45 GMT -5
I got a call from Microsoft Windows once.
I found it strange that an operating system was calling...
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Post by celticjobber on Jul 14, 2016 1:39:46 GMT -5
They called me a few years ago, saying "This is Windows, we noticed your computer has a virus." (not Microsoft, just "Windows") and then they told me to get on my computer and go to some website so they could fix it. I knew it was a scam, so I just hung up.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2016 1:48:50 GMT -5
I always use it as a chance to sort of quote Hackers and get them to run through helping me fix my BLT drive.
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agent817
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Post by agent817 on Jul 14, 2016 9:37:53 GMT -5
The first time this happened, I was confused because there are two computers in the house. The next time that happened, I asked the caller which computer he was talking about. He had no idea what I meant.
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Powerline
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Post by Powerline on Jul 14, 2016 12:06:48 GMT -5
I had one contact me, at which point I hung up. And then they called right back and left a rather vulgar voicemail. The real one that's a problem at our house is ones claiming to be AT&T offering high-speed internet. I live on this half-mile stretch between towns where AT&T and Time Warner and all them can't hit us. So there's calls that claim to come from AT&T (and show up on caller ID as "ATT", when normal AT&T calls show up as "AT&T"...if I hadn't figured that out I'd have fallen for it) saying service is available, but if you google the numbers they call from they show up on several scammer # lists.
To be honest, it's kindof a pasttime of mine to watch videos on YouTube of people dicking around with scammers. HoaxHotel and PettyPranks are both gold.
There's some other random ones that have found absolutely epic ways to mess with the remote-connecting scammers via virtual machine (an emulation of Windows or other OS that the scammers are led to believe is the victim's legitimate computer). I've seen some where the "c" key functions as "enter", one where a popup has a countdown timer threatening to destroy all the files on the computer and asking the scammer how to fix it, and so on. My favorite was one where the guy was putting in his credit card info, but started right off with putting in his address as something that revealed that he knew it was a scammer. Then the scammer opened the window to change his password and acted high and mighty for the rest of the call while the "victim" kept having to explain how he'd not accomplished anything.
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Post by Dub H on Jul 14, 2016 12:45:53 GMT -5
I had one contact me, at which point I hung up. And then they called right back and left a rather vulgar voicemail. The real one that's a problem at our house is ones claiming to be AT&T offering high-speed internet. I live on this half-mile stretch between towns where AT&T and Time Warner and all them can't hit us. So there's calls that claim to come from AT&T (and show up on caller ID as "ATT", when normal AT&T calls show up as "AT&T"...if I hadn't figured that out I'd have fallen for it) saying service is available, but if you google the numbers they call from they show up on several scammer # lists. To be honest, it's kindof a pasttime of mine to watch videos on YouTube of people dicking around with scammers. HoaxHotel and PettyPranks are both gold. There's some other random ones that have found absolutely epic ways to mess with the remote-connecting scammers via virtual machine (an emulation of Windows or other OS that the scammers are led to believe is the victim's legitimate computer). I've seen some where the "c" key functions as "enter", one where a popup has a countdown timer threatening to destroy all the files on the computer and asking the scammer how to fix it, and so on. My favorite was one where the guy was putting in his credit card info, but started right off with putting in his address as something that revealed that he knew it was a scammer. Then the scammer opened the window to change his password and acted high and mighty for the rest of the call while the "victim" kept having to explain how he'd not accomplished anything. Any chance you can link that last one? |
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Post by willywonka666 on Jul 14, 2016 13:17:06 GMT -5
Whatever happened to the do not call list? I bet I signed up for that 4 or 5 different times
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Post by Mid-Carder on Jul 14, 2016 13:31:12 GMT -5
I haven't had one of these in at least 5 years but I used to get them all the time. I'd go with them most of the way until they wanted me to put my IP address in, then I'd start quoting Alan Partridge at them. They didn't last very long.
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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Jul 14, 2016 14:05:10 GMT -5
What I'd love to do is make up some technobabble to mess with them but I can never think of anything.
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