Windows software team scam

groen said:
If they phoned me i would try and get them to read out the numbers on their teamviewer and try to connect to them. at least try and get their external ip and post it.
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I agree, though while the operators are largely stupid, the method is sufficiently organised that i highly doubt they are not working behind proxies and such forth. It will be run like any telesales support centre, the brains setting the method and the morons with a basic grasp of the english language running the front of the scam, lured by the promise of a wage in some cesspit of a country.

Guys if you get this call, do not give them game up straight away, they will just hang up and move on. Waste their time and tell them what you think of them. For the sake of your friends and relatives everywhere, we should organise a mass tech revolt against these ******s. I just think about all the poor souls who fall for this and it makes me angry.
 
I had one the other day,

"Hello I'm from Windows"

Me: You do realise that Windows is a brand name, not a company?

"Execuse me?"

Me: Windows, its the name of some software, thats like me phoning you and saying "Hell I'm from Snow Leopard" it just doesn't make sense, would you like to hang up and try again? I might fall for it next time

He didn't call back.

Maybe we should get Anonymous or Lulsec to take them down?
 
I had an interesting one of these a couple of years ago - not an MS one, but trying to sell me phone calls.

Ended up having a conversation about pets with the guy after telling him I didn't actually have a phone, and was speaking to him through my cat.

After about 30 mins I think he must have gotten fed up, since he bluntly asked "you're not going to buy anything from me are you?" "Nope, so you might as well **** off :D"
 
I just had one of these from a chap that sounded uncannily like the "internet providings" guy off Fonejacker :)

I strung him along for 27 minutes until he eventually put the phone down on me. He was desperately trying to get me to clink on a link to an executable on some dodgy site and saying that nothing would happen if I did. He was calling from www.redout.us, supposedly, but would not admit that he was trying to sell me some ropey reg cleaner programme disguised as an IT support package.

He was too busy trying to convince me that my pc was connected to "The Global Server" and was telling him that I had several critical errors on my pc which meant that all my files were corrupted. Apparently he is a microsoft certified partner and this is how he had access to "The Global Server". Lolworthy stuff.
 
i feel sorry for people who arent totally clued up on this stuff :(

Fair enough we can spot it, and maybe even someone mildy competent can spot it. But there are some people who really do no nothing atall. To the point they probably do think microsoft can see whats going on within your computer, and can help you over the phone.

Scum the lot of them
 
My youngest daughter had another one of these calls yesterday and she said "My Dad is a computer expert and he would know if we had got a virus" to which the caller became abusive and said "Your Dad doesn't know anything".
How did he know :D
 
Just spoke to my Mum who fell for this on Saturday. Luckily my parents have separate accounts and my Dad's is the administrator account do she couldn't install whatever they were asking her to without the password. Close call.
 
Had the call again yesterday (international number, indian accent) and decided to do a couple of verses of my own home-brewed '**** you' song. Funny thing was, even after that, he still wanted to deliver his schpiele so i adjusted the song to include 'your family' 'your country', with an Indian accent, and 'get a proper job'

Great fun.
 
The last time one phoned me while i was in the office (an IT office no less) and started with the usual "you have a virus on your computer" ****, so i just simply asked "which one?" hopeing to see where this would go any maybe tag him along a bit, so he asked how many do you have and i just answered "about 700 including the laptops"......he hung up quite quickly :p
 
Here's what you do, when you get one of these calls. Pretend to be very very old and half deaf. When he tries to get you to do something on the computer play a sound of an old fashioned typewriter and say nothing works apart from a letter appearing on the page. Sound very worried about the virus they're talking about and beg for help with you typewriter, see how long they last
 
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