A few months back I started getting the old “problems with Windows” scam phone calls.
http://www.informationweek.com/security/management/microsoft-windows-support-call-scams-7-f/240005023
I just hung up but they persisted, and I was getting calls about every week. So one day I was bored and decided to have some fun –
scammer “Hi I am soandso from the technical department of Windows operating system and we have received a report from your computer that you have a virus on the computer.”
me “What that’s terrible – what can I do ?”
scammer (getting excited) “Yes, yes, yes I am here to help you. Are you sitting at your computer ?”
me “Yes”
scammer “Good, good – now press the windows key and R together”
me “OK – done that”
scammer “Now type blah blah blah and hit enter”
me “Ok -done that” (I hadn’t)
scammer “Now tell me what does the screen say?”
me “I don’t know”
Silence –
scammer “Why don’t you know?”
me “I can’t read the screen”
scammer “Why can’t you read the screen?”
me “I am blind”
Longer silence –
scammer “How can you use the computer if you are blind?”
me “I have a Braille keyboard”
Another long silence then *click beep beep*
Made my day 🙂
“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”
– Democritus (460-370bc)
mm, ages ago I had two opportunities, ran one through it up to the point of OS, and told him I had a mac *dot dot dot click* xD; and the other I was just curious as to what they actually did. remote desktop settings allow any connections, then go to x site, stopped there 😉
I am going to use this xD
Eh, Melon is a pretty cool guy, changes your signature and doesn’t afraid of anything.
Nicely played Bakes.
@ fern, ARS technica did a report on a scammer that rang their office a couple of months ago. It was quite well done.
Test.
Should have a soundtrack of people screaming in the background…. that always gets the cops to my house
Your an inbecile full stop.
noobItUp <> sorry I started playing with butz again
I said I had windows 96 and they hung up 😛
