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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: ML52 on December 15, 2015, 12:21:32 AM
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Tonight I got a call from a heavily accented man claiming to be from "tech support". He said that for the last two days my computer has been uploading maleware to the internet. I don't believe him and hung up. I have run my malware bytes a/v and the comodo a/v both come up clean. Is it possible they could both miss a virus?
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A Classic case of attempted Human Engineering.
"I need you to click start and then run and then enter mscon... and enter ###.###.###.###"
"Yes! I see you now, Stupid rich foreigner. :x Give me your credit card number if you want your computer back."
I like to keep them on the phone as long as possible when I have the time.
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Several years ago I got a similar call from someone telling me they were with Microsoft. It wasn't about a virus or malware but they told me there was a problem with my OS.
I hung up.
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This has been going on in Canada for a few years now. There are a 1/2 dozen companies or more in India which are aggressively using telemarketing to scam people out of money. One of these companies actually DID provide tech support for Microsoft at one point, which lost their contracts and began scamming.
They get people to look at various places in the Windows OS and reporting features and trick them into thinking errors/viruses are being shown. They also call themselves "Windows Support", specifically not "Microsoft".
CBC news here has done 2 full 2 hour specials on this - they infiltrated a guy into one of the call centers in India, it was pretty interesting actually. You HAD to sell someone on day one or you get fired, hence the very aggressive tactics and lies. All they want is your credit card # really.
They've saturated the Canadian market, you can't speak to anyone without a home phone line without them bringing this up, I've been called over 20 times on our 2 landlines. Lots of youtube videos of IT people screwing with them, one of them actually hacked the Indian call center back, and took control of THEIR pc, I'll find it and link it, pretty funny stuff.
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I have had someone claiming to be from Microsoft call me a couple of times now.
Last time I said,
Microsoft ain't calling nobody out of the blue. Your a crook and a thief, then hung up.
No tech anybody is calling call you out of the blue! Sure would luv to get my hands on the company that collected my metadata and sold my number to these sums a beeches. I got a hammer just made for their fingers....................
ty NSA, you can capture/sell my metadata, but you cannot seem to stop a single terrorist. Its a brave new world.
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I didn't trust this from the minute he id'd himself so I didn't get burned. The good thing is I learned a bit more about how to clean up my computer thanks to this.
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If I don't know who's calling when I look at the caller ID, I don't answer.
If it's important they'll leave a message....most don't.
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The timing was good today.
I was expecting a call so I picked up. I was confused when I heard "... Gutter Cleaning Service... free."
So I said, "Free? That sounds pretty good." :devil
I could almost hear his excitement but he backtracked fast, "It's an introductory offer for $99."
I'm smiling from ear to ear. "Really? That sound like a bargain!"
He starts to agree but I cut him off, "I'm in a 20,000 square foot building!"
Silence.
"I've called a business haven't I?"
By now I'm laughing pretty loudly, "It's an apartment complex."
That was for a local business. Imagine what I do to a "tech support" call.
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how can I make loads of money and not need to work?
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how can I make loads of money and not need to work?
come work with us. I watched 3 movies at work yesterday.
semp
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I've had thos stupid calls. The guy said there was something wrong with my computer and OS lol. I cursed him and hung up. Also getting calls like I won a cruise or trip and all I need to do is verify my credit card info......yea ok like I'm stupid. I just curse them and hang up. I wonder who is the idiot that would believe them lol.
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---I wonder who is the idiot that would believe them lol.
There's plenty enough of them, otherwise they won't call. Sad but true. What's even worse, most of them are too ashamed to tell the police or other authority.
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jst got the call. asked him where the server was that "denied" me, coulnd't answer. asked my name, couldn't answer, asked him my guid, nthing. finally ask, can u give me my mac address, still nothing. told him to listen very carefully. i am submitting ths phone number to the fbi and hung up. Waited 5 minutes and called back, mailbox full lol the number was
859-846-8534
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There is a real convincing one that claims to be from Microsoft. Claiming that your computer is causing problems on their servers. At the end they try to get you to pay for windows defender.
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wow another call, same phone, then he hung up
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no legit company will call you for tech support with being asked too first
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Someone on here had posted once that when you receive a call like these, hand the phone to a child and tell them that it's Santa Clause.
Coogan
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A friend of mine would immediately try his best to sell them something. Normally something he made up as he went along in the conversation, and he would try to get them to invest in his "made up" company, aggressively.
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Option 1: lengthy discussion on how they are sinners are will burn in hell (some of these people are very religious).
Option 2: if it's a chick ask what she looks like, start a dirty phone call with her
Option 3: ask if you have could have been infected from browsing tranny... ummm.... then start a discussion asking the guy if he likes trannies
Option 4: answer phone, say hold on one sec, put phone down, walk away
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When they call (and sometimes it's a woman's voice) I show thankful appreciation, and tell them I'm turning my computer on...and I tell them it's booting up, and in the meantime, I ask them what they think about 'reincarnation'.
Then, at least because they've never heard a native English speaker say the word, they're flummoxed, and I spend as much of the rest of the day as possible explaining karma.
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I don't know whether the woman was from "Tech Support" or trying to sell an investment or something like that. I've previously got several calls where an English speaking person wanted to send me some material for evaluating their venture and finally make an investment. For the first ones I answered politely, later I simply said that I won't discuss business in other languages than Finnish. But the last one worked best: The woman asked me if I'm the person she's trying to reach and I answered her in Finnish! She then asked me to speak English, instead I just kept talking Finnish. That conversation wasn't long, three sentences on each side.
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I don't know whether the woman was from "Tech Support" or trying to sell an investment or something like that. I've previously got several calls where an English speaking person wanted to send me some material for evaluating their venture and finally make an investment. For the first ones I answered politely, later I simply said that I won't discuss business in other languages than Finnish. But the last one worked best: The woman asked me if I'm the person she's trying to reach and I answered her in Finnish! She then asked me to speak English, instead I just kept talking Finnish. That conversation wasn't long, three sentences on each side.
hehehehe i like you have fun with them people , they are a toy and i like to play for hours.
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The ultimate solution :
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jolly-roger-telephone-company-robot-annoy-telemarketers/ (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jolly-roger-telephone-company-robot-annoy-telemarketers/)
Can be used against stupid tech support calls as well.
You MUST listen to his recorded calls and how clever it's done :devil
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So someone I know got a call from another stating he'd won a new truck blah blah blah. The caller did not block number. The callee's phone sported the callers number, the caller kept calling the callee's phone like 6 times.
So the callee called back the caller and the original caller answered, the original callee claimed his prize, "I want my truck I just won".
I listened to the callee call that number multiple times, claiming his prize, the guy was begging him to stop. I was scream'in...............