Finally I got my fist scam phone call!!!!

My dad had one of those calls last year. He's not the brighest as far as computers go. Long as he can play his football manager games and do his dirty old man flirting on the net he's quite happy.

He didn't know it was a scam however, but as soon as they said "we can fix this for you for x amount", he turned round and said "I'll have to speak to my son first. He's the computer expert".

Whether he got as far as installing logmein, which I believe is their app of choice, I'm unsure. As he moved back to Ireland though, it's less easy for me to go check up and format/reinstall for him as it used to be when he was in London :)

Either way, they didn't call back, and he didn't lose any money.
 
I've been suddenly getting these over the past 6 months. Had 4 now in total, never had any before that.

I just tell them it's a scam and how can you do this to people, they then say "This is not a scam, this is authentic genuine" (Whatever that means). I then tell them that I'll call the police if they ring again.
 
They are brazen. I had one and I wasn't in the mood for wasting my time, so I just told them that I knew it was a scam and I was hanging up, goodbye.

They rang back demanding to know how I knew it was a scam!

It might be amusing one day to pretend to be a 419 scammer when replying to one of these scammers. I wouldn't be bothered, but if anyone likes the idea feel free to run with it.
 
Bah, I have failed to find the later scene that connects to that one, where he enters a room undercover so he can listen to the peoples' voices until he's sure which of the men was the one who said "Good luck" in that phone call, and then says "You don't remember me? We spoke on the phone two days ago. I told you I would find you."
 
I have a VM ready for next time this happens. I will have meatspin and lemonparty background images ready for their remote session. x x x
 
QlimaxUK said:
doesn't the background image disappear when the remote user connects?
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No, on Windows Remote Desktop the remote viewer/user can't is treated to a blank colour background instead of the actual background, but in LogMeIn you could see it in all it's disgusting glory :p :D
 
I've had a couple of these calls before, When i just had my Macbook, they said i had a Virus on it, I told him I'm on macintosh and he hang up :D
 
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