Someone called me to tell me I have a Trojan horse

[old-fart]

Originally Posted by old-fart

Maritime Q now has me hoping they give me a call so I can have some fun with the tards.

And I finally got my wish this morning.... not exactly the same, just told me that they "provided support for the windows operating system and that over the past few weeks it had been reported to them that my computer had some problems". I asked if they worked for Microsoft and they said no, an independant company.

I said "let me guess - you want me to let you have access to my computer so you can fix me up" and he said yes. I asked if everyone who fell for that was a complete idiot and asked for his name. He said Brian Johnson in his thick Indian accent.

Anyway, he said if I wouldn't let him help me, then he couldn't help me.

I agreed - there was no way he could help me, in any fashion. He was polite and wished me a nice day.

Bit disappointing really...

[Diverce]

Originally Posted by old-fart

And I finally got my wish this morning.... not exactly the same, just told me that they "provided support for the windows operating system and that over the past few weeks it had been reported to them that my computer had some problems". I asked if they worked for Microsoft and they said no, an independant company.

I said "let me guess - you want me to let you have access to my computer so you can fix me up" and he said yes. I asked if everyone who fell for that was a complete idiot and asked for his name. He said Brian Johnson in his thick Indian accent.

Anyway, he said if I wouldn't let him help me, then he couldn't help me.

I agreed - there was no way he could help me, in any fashion. He was polite and wished me a nice day.

Bit disappointing really...

It sounds like you called him out right away. You need to get them to invest some time with you, lead him on. Get him talking. I held one of them on the line for close to 20 minutes, I played completely dumb and had him walk me through everything near the end he told me to #### off.

[SHOGUN]

Haha I got a similar call but with a guy with a very thick East Indian accent. He wanted my credit card number so I answered:

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you admit you did wrong in scamming me now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

LIAM NEESON YO ASS BIATCH!!

[Maritime Q-Scout]

Originally Posted by old-fart

And I finally got my wish this morning.... not exactly the same, just told me that they "provided support for the windows operating system and that over the past few weeks it had been reported to them that my computer had some problems". I asked if they worked for Microsoft and they said no, an independant company.

I said "let me guess - you want me to let you have access to my computer so you can fix me up" and he said yes. I asked if everyone who fell for that was a complete idiot and asked for his name. He said Brian Johnson in his thick Indian accent.

Anyway, he said if I wouldn't let him help me, then he couldn't help me.

I agreed - there was no way he could help me, in any fashion. He was polite and wished me a nice day.

Bit disappointing really...

it was about the 27 minute mark things started to go off the rails. I'd let him paint himself into a corner and let him out just to out him in another corner. I had him 6 ways from Sunday when he lost it on me. The call was 29 minutes total, if I recall correctly.

You need to invest time to earn the capital gain of an epic story haha

[old-fart]

Yes, next time hopefully he'll call when I have the time to lead him on some. Unfortunately, I had a conference call starting in about 10 minutes so I couldn't invest the time.

I commit to trying to do better next time.

[Maritime Q-Scout]

These idiots are at it again, and I use the term idiots as I'm home on spring break, the phone rings and who is it?

Microsoft tech support telling me they have been receiving notifications that I have a virus!

They Called Me Back! ME!

So I put the guy on hold to fire up my laptop and record the conversation to post to YouTube, but in that time he hung up.

Now I'm really mad