Are the Indians giving you the irrits ?

Yes I get the windows team ringing me every month. Surprising it takes them weeks to get back to me and then they ring my home number and not my work phone which is the contact number I supply.

With the virus they claim I have I sometimes reply impossible as I'm still spreading that one since I wrote it. Then offer them a trial of it's next version before I release it into the wild.

Other times I ask for my serial number, CPU id and HDD id, operating system version and what service pack I have installed.

If I am feeling very agressive then I start on eating cows and proceed to insult ever religion, race I can think of till I get a reaction.

I miss my landline.........

I used to keep a fart machine handy and sound interested while I was exploring the 72 different farts on the machine.

Id also burp into the phone every so often.

After about 6 months of this I got bored and got a few choice phrases in indian (Urdu I think) and id just sprinkle the conversation with them and laugh after each comment.

My record was 30 seconds without Indian bad words and about 8 seconds with lol

I don't have a landline anymore, totally useless to me as it rarely works and didn't support internet in any form.

FWIW, the original post is a common scam that some crooks are doing at the moment. They say they're from MS and then get you to load a web site - which then installs botnet code on your PC. The (I presume) RBN then pays the Indian "MS support" staff, and then on-sell the zombie to the black market - ready to spam or attack whomever buys it.

I like to ask them to hold the line for a few minutes - and leave my phone on the washing machine or similar. Holding them up screws their numbers. :twisted:

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Originally Posted by jonesy63

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I like to ask them to hold the line for a few minutes SNIP. Holding them up screws their numbers. :twisted:

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Evil minds think alike. :twisted:

Best Wishes,
Peter

Well, wasn't that funny! I just had a call from these scammers.

Out of interest and professional curiosity, I let them take me through their process.

They first get you to look at event viewer in applications and system - pointing out that all the warnings and errors are "corruptions of your system and application" :D (What a load of holy cow waste!)

After they sucker you in, they then ask to be transferred to their senior technician, who will connect to your system and fix it for you... yeah, right!

It turns out, they try and get you to connect to a known scam web site, which has been pretty well documented: logmein123 scam: received a call saying my antivirus was corrupted

Anyhow, after he told me that he wanted me to go to that web site - and I was tiring of their drivel - I let loose with some choice words. My teenage kids walked in while I was in the middle of this tirade - and the looks on their faces was priceless! :eek::o:D:clap2:

I will document this and advise the company I work for.

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Originally Posted by jonesy63

Well, wasn't that funny! I just had a call from these scammers.

Out of interest and professional curiosity, I let them take me through their process.

They first get you to look at event viewer in applications and system - pointing out that all the warnings and errors are "corruptions of your system and application" :D (What a load of holy cow waste!)

After they sucker you in, they then ask to be transferred to their senior technician, who will connect to your system and fix it for you... yeah, right!

It turns out, they try and get you to connect to a known scam web site, which has been pretty well documented: logmein123 scam: received a call saying my antivirus was corrupted

Anyhow, after he told me that he wanted me to go to that web site - and I was tiring of their drivel - I let loose with some choice words. My teenage kids walked in while I was in the middle of this tirade - and the looks on their faces was priceless! :eek::o:D:clap2:

I will document this and advise the company I work for.

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I had the same call and did the same thing as you, aslo because I was curious. I was an IT manager for many years, so know the game. I let him take me all through event viewer etc, then to 123logmein.

The logmein website is actually a real site, and is used extensively by many companies for systems support. It gives the oporator remote controll of your computer. Any way - I dragged all this out for about 10 minutes or so, tellinghim this or that was not working, eventually after being asked for the 10th time if I wa son that web site yet i said "oh yes, ummm hang on there is a message" What does it say, he asked. "Oh, it says the man on the telephone is a scammer and is trying to steal from you tell him to go and stick his head up his arse because he is a stupid idiot!"

I then hung up on him, well, it amused me! lol

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That was the seccond time I got a call from them. The first time I just told him he was stupid and should stuff off. He started screaming F*you F*you F*you down the phone at me as I was telling him to stuff of. Nice man!