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flamingreen · 07-13-2011, 03:07 PM

Got this call for the sixth or seventh time now. Unfortunately, he could not do anything for the Windows 3.1 machine I have.

GoinAllTheWay · 07-13-2011, 03:26 PM

I hope these guys call a hacker one day and he releases a virus into their system. Man that would be so sweet. Surely that wouldn't be hard for even an average hacker.

Buff · 09-03-2011, 07:19 PM

I just got this call. I pretended to be concerned, and when he asked me to go to my computer I fibbed a bit and asked him which computer, I have three, an iMac, a laptop running Ubuntu and an old deskyop running CentOS. (I have non of those). Then I said, "You know what, I'm an IT guy (which I am) so I think I'll go figure out the problem on my own". He told me to Fata Off and then hung up on me.

Vulcan · 09-03-2011, 09:08 PM

I was getting their calls about once a day for a couple of weeks. At first I asked them which computer since I didn't have any problems and I build them myself. I guess it didn't do any good as they kept on calling and I would tell them to eff off. The last two times I told them I didn't have electricity, so didn't have a computer. They've finally quit calling. I still get the credit card scam about once a week for the last three or four years. I think I get especially targeted because of my age.

Draug · 09-04-2011, 12:26 AM

They called this week while I wasnt home and spoke with my wife. They claimed to be from Microsoft and claimed to be calling about "problems" that we were having with the computer.

Coincidentally, my computer cratered last weekend and I had to rebuild and reinstall Win7. Due to that, my wife responded to the call, but then realized it wasnt quite right when he asked "Is your computer on right now?" At that point, she (thankfully) told him to pound sand.

corporatejay · 09-05-2011, 11:21 AM

That's awesome. Just got a call as I was reading this thread. What a joke.

Hack&Lube · 09-05-2011, 12:53 PM

Ask if they deliver curry chicken.

Knalus · 09-05-2011, 10:23 PM

I got a call today. I played along for awhile, then made up some thing about my wife calling me, told him to wait. I kept checking in on him every 30-60 seconds, kept him waiting for a good 5 min before I left the house.

He's wasting my time, might as well do the same for him.

RedJester · 09-10-2011, 04:34 PM

My parents got this call today. Thankfully I remembered this thread.

Thanks for the heads up, CP!

Rathji · 09-26-2011, 02:27 PM

My grandparents just got hit by this.

Guy called and got my Grandpa to go to Logmein. After he had accepted, Grandpa realized something was wrong, so he said "no, I will just let my grandson take care of it", since I do all their maintenance remotely, and then called me.

Once he got a hold of me, and informed me, I logged in immediately and saw that despite hanging up on the guy, he left logmein runnng - then immediately I was disconnected. Happened one more time, and I realized the other guy must be closing it. Finally got in, and closed logmein, removed a dozen firewall exceptions that had been added, killed a whole swack of processes I didnt recognize and everything seems to be fine.

I assume, of course, that whatever payload they were trying to drop, has already been dropped and, so running a few scans (MBAM, MSSE etc) but I assume whatever has been done isn't just a typical malware install and in order to be really sure I will need to nuke the drive. Anyone have any experience dealing with securing things after this has happened, or is a wipe really the best way?

Rathji · 09-26-2011, 02:47 PM

Just got off the phone with my wife and they just called her cell phone as well.

I am now assuming the contact info from the compromised computer was one of the first things that was retrieved.

Wonderful.

Draug · 09-26-2011, 11:28 PM

Im guessing they do this more to steal one's identity rather than leave viruses... change every password they have; email, banking, online revenue canada .... all of them.

Aegypticus · 09-27-2011, 05:49 AM

I got this call today for the 2nd time and I straight up told the guy that I knew it was a scam. He insisted it was legit. I told him he was full of #### and hung up, but I don't feel like I did enough. Any suggestions on how I can really ruin their day if they call again?

Hockeyguy15 · 09-27-2011, 07:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Aegypticus

I got this call today for the 2nd time and I straight up told the guy that I knew it was a scam. He insisted it was legit. I told him he was full of #### and hung up, but I don't feel like I did enough. Any suggestions on how I can really ruin their day if they call again?

Ask him if he wants a "hurts doughnut" and then scream as loud as you can into the phone.

Then if that doesn't make him hang up go on a racist rant and call him every name in the book until he hangs up.

Robbob · 10-11-2011, 11:29 AM

Just curious, since this is a scam is there anything someone can do. They keep calling and I am tired of telling them I don't have the internet. The first couple times it was fun messing with them but it is starting to get annoying. Obviously they don't adhere to the do not call list.

I have noticed that they have stopped mentioning mircosoft and are now claiming to be a virus prevention program.

kirant · 10-16-2011, 10:25 AM

On the topic of telemarketing scams, anybody else get a call from 604-484-9617 recently? It's Solomobile's seemingly voice automated (Unless it's all done by one Indian guy named Gary...) selling # for their touchscreen phones.

I don't even know why I bother to answer anymore...

photon · 10-19-2011, 10:07 PM

Great now I'm getting these.

The problem is that the # that shows up when they call isn't a real phone #.. once I got 000-000-0000 and the other times have been some six digit #, so you can't really add them to your block list can you?

I guess the only way to fight back is to waste their time and make it so they don't want to talk to you.

I may try the porn in the background tactic.

Vulcan · 10-19-2011, 11:01 PM

The last call I got, I treated it as a graphic phone sex call, they haven't called back since. Why should I have patience for someone trying to bilk me?

knock on wood they don't call again

Rathji · 10-19-2011, 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by photon

Great now I'm getting these.

The problem is that the # that shows up when they call isn't a real phone #.. once I got 000-000-0000 and the other times have been some six digit #, so you can't really add them to your block list can you?

I guess the only way to fight back is to waste their time and make it so they don't want to talk to you.

I may try the porn in the background tactic.

I am sure you could get a really graphic audio file to play in the background, and then put your phone on the desk on hands free as you pretend to be doing what they request.

photon · 10-20-2011, 12:45 PM

Heh I can't even do that, they have me added to some system so now it just calls me, and if I answer it's just an answering message that says "Goodbye" and hangs up.

Great.

I've tried to add the number (which comes up as 92083) to Shaw's call blocking, we'll see if that works.