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Originally Posted by ken0042
What I don't get with the "Microsoft/Windows" scam, I had one of them call me the other day. I let him do his song and dance; mostly so that I am aware of what they try to say. About a minute into the call I told him I knew it was a scam, and that he may as well take us off his list. He spent about 5 minutes trying to defend that it wasn't a scam.
Why would he do that? Would somebody identify him as a scammer; to the point of asking him what version of Windows I am running, and then let him onto the computer?
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I get the calls all the time to my work number and sometimes I play along (only real thing I can do to get back at them is to waste as much of their time as possible) and pretend to do everything he asks until he asks me to read the access code to him to which I say the letters; "F - U -....... O - F - F". That said sometimes I just tell them right away that I know the scam and the guy will spend minutes trying to convince me it's legit. I'm sure they managed to scam a few people in the beginning but I wonder how long until that well dries up? I wish in this day and age more could be done about this kind of stuff but it seems that these thieves have free reign to do this to as many people as possible.