If someone from the ‘Windows Security Desk’ calls you, hang up immediately
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/11/02/2870289/if-someone-from-the-windows-security.htmlIf someone from the Windows Security Desk calls you, hang up immediately
Published: November 2, 2013 Updated 57 minutes ago
And here is some more stuff I know, the were done with Halloween, its on to Thanksgiving edition:
By now, those who rely on the Internet for commerce, communication or entertainment have become accustomed, if not numb, to the daily barrage of hoaxes, frauds and scams that land in the spam filter of the email program.
The pleas for assistance from the widow of a deposed general of a west African nation that once spurred puzzlement and then amusement over the tortured English and word-for-word duplication of the last 12,763 such messages now merit not a single glance. Instead they, along with the daily warnings that ones email account is about to be shut down unless a certain link is clicked upon, the notification of a winning lottery ticket, even the now-rare offers of exotic medicines, are flushed away with a quick select all followed by an even faster delete.
And then you get this phone call.
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lastlib
(23,222 posts)...THEN hang up!
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Me: "I'm not running a windows computer"
Them: "blah, blah, blah"
Me: "That's funny, my security software says the attack is coming from YOUR IP address"
CLICK!
csziggy
(34,136 posts)It's been working great for me - only one guy stayed on the line until I stopped laughing to ask my why I was laughing at him. I told him that his scam was ridiculous and he needed a new line of work. When he said it wasn't a scam, I started laughing again and he hung up.
They haven't called my number for two months now!
TroglodyteScholar
(5,477 posts)If you have time, that is. Use your time to waste theirs. String them along with dimwitted but believable responses, delays, confusion, etc... get them on your hook and then after you've grown tired of toying with them, wrap up with something outrageous that makes them hang up...
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)As someone who has been doing computer support for more than twenty years, I would string them along for the ride of their life!