Thread: 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.

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" (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!

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

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



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!