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these assholes been calling me all day, roughly 4 times as of 5 min ago.
firs time it was some lady with indian accent and i told her to fuck off
second time, it was another lady, so i told her I own mac(lies) and she hangs up
third, some guy calls and I told him I work for microsoft and home for vacation and he freaks and hangs up
and fourth, another guy calls and I told him I know of you fuckers and your scam and I hang up.
I can't trace their numbers even if i *69 after the call to see who called. so what should I do next when they call? Some people told me to call the police but doubt they can do anything about it really =/
Its something thats been going on for awhile. I have soo many customers walk in asking about this and all I can say is just tell them its a scam.. Basically all they do is tell you their from Microsoft and you have a virus or something.. Then they load a tracker/remote application and steal all your data...
All you can really do is ignore and hang up...
Maybe next time they call do a RS troll story..
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I got a call last week and was playing around with them acting all scared and worried about my computer being at risk of a virus. They basically spend about 10 minutes trying to scare/convince you into thinking your computer is at risk. After a while they then directed me to a website called ammyy.com and asked me to download some program. That's when I told them I worked for the police (lies) in Canada and we've been catching spammers like them and fining them and their company $100k Cdn, and he said sorry and hung up lol.
This reminds me of a prank I watched a long time ago.
Some IT guy claiming to be working for their internet provider has been detecting a lot
of pornography traffic. And the woman that answered was a mother, and she thought her
son was the one watching porn, so she followed the IT guy's step-by-step instruction to do a "porn sweep"
to remove it all from the computer. He leads her to go to DOS and "deltree" her entire computer.
Could be fake... but that's pretty fucked up.
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^Could have ended with the mom asking the son if he was watching porn all the time, but making you wipe your own computer and hanging up is more funny to hear.
Time is money for these people. If you have some time to spare keep them on the phone for as long as you can. Make them sell to you. Make them repeat their pitch again and again. Act like you're afraid of viruses, that you're an ignorant consumer. They'll put in the time if they think you'll be giving them money at the end of the call. Waste their time and then tell them you'll have to think about it/talk to your boss/take it to Best Buy's Geek Squad for a second opinion/call them back.
Wasting their time is the only way you can aggravate them as much as they aggravate you.
what do they ask? I want to play along .. will report back if i get a call.
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they call you and say, that they are from microsoft or some company that works for microsoft and my windows machine has been sending a virus through my router or internet or w/e. then they pause.
WTF? I've never heard of this scam before... seems like it's not that easy to do, since most people would have to manually enable remote desktop and then go into their router and set up port forwarding... I wonder if the scammer actually takes the time to walk someone through all that.
they call you and say, that they are from microsoft or some company that works for microsoft and my windows machine has been sending a virus through my router or internet or w/e. then they pause.
that's when you reply: good, it's working...problem? *then pause*
Told them I have a mac and the guy said I had to upgrade it every 6months for "maximum performance" to some mumbo jumbo. Then said I should go to my computer to complete the proccess. I asked if I had to complete it, he said if i wanted to, obviously not. Then he thanks me and hangsup
Got a total time of 2:23 talking to him. My dad was talking to him trying to understand him for 4 mins
EDIT: LOLOLOLOLOLOL Called again, told them I was running linux, -long pause- *click*
EDIT#2: Caller ID picked up their number (1) 510 943-3040
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WTF? I've never heard of this scam before... seems like it's not that easy to do, since most people would have to manually enable remote desktop and then go into their router and set up port forwarding... I wonder if the scammer actually takes the time to walk someone through all that.
what? you do not have to enable remote desktop at all. they arent using that method.
they will direct the chump to a website to download a 3rd party client file.
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