over the phone IT scam
 

so I'm sure most of you know about this
Microsoft Warns of IT Support Phone Scams | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

these assholes been calling me all day, roughly 4 times as of 5 min ago.

firs time it was some lady with indian accent and i told her to fuck off

second time, it was another lady, so i told her I own mac(lies) and she hangs up

third, some guy calls and I told him I work for microsoft and home for vacation and he freaks and hangs up

and fourth, another guy calls and I told him I know of you fuckers and your scam and I hang up.

I can't trace their numbers even if i *69 after the call to see who called. so what should I do next when they call? Some people told me to call the police but doubt they can do anything about it really =/

Keep time stamps of when they called.

Call the non-emergency line of your local police after 3 of them for harassment.

Its something thats been going on for awhile. I have soo many customers walk in asking about this and all I can say is just tell them its a scam.. Basically all they do is tell you their from Microsoft and you have a virus or something.. Then they load a tracker/remote application and steal all your data...

All you can really do is ignore and hang up...

Maybe next time they call do a RS troll story..

Techs don't call you from reputable software companies. Derp derp

I got a call last week and was playing around with them acting all scared and worried about my computer being at risk of a virus. They basically spend about 10 minutes trying to scare/convince you into thinking your computer is at risk. After a while they then directed me to a website called ammyy.com and asked me to download some program. That's when I told them I worked for the police (lies) in Canada and we've been catching spammers like them and fining them and their company $100k Cdn, and he said sorry and hung up lol.

i suppose they are hoping that they'll get a hold of someone else other than myself in my house.

This reminds me of a prank I watched a long time ago.
Some IT guy claiming to be working for their internet provider has been detecting a lot
of pornography traffic. And the woman that answered was a mother, and she thought her
son was the one watching porn, so she followed the IT guy's step-by-step instruction to do a "porn sweep"
to remove it all from the computer. He leads her to go to DOS and "deltree" her entire computer.

Could be fake... but that's pretty fucked up.

^Could have ended with the mom asking the son if he was watching porn all the time, but making you wipe your own computer and hanging up is more funny to hear.

LOL........

I got the call last week, I told them that they sound like BS and I hung up on them

Time is money for these people. If you have some time to spare keep them on the phone for as long as you can. Make them sell to you. Make them repeat their pitch again and again. Act like you're afraid of viruses, that you're an ignorant consumer. They'll put in the time if they think you'll be giving them money at the end of the call. Waste their time and then tell them you'll have to think about it/talk to your boss/take it to Best Buy's Geek Squad for a second opinion/call them back.

Wasting their time is the only way you can aggravate them as much as they aggravate you.

what do they ask? I want to play along .. will report back if i get a call.

they call you and say, that they are from microsoft or some company that works for microsoft and my windows machine has been sending a virus through my router or internet or w/e. then they pause.

WTF? I've never heard of this scam before... seems like it's not that easy to do, since most people would have to manually enable remote desktop and then go into their router and set up port forwarding... I wonder if the scammer actually takes the time to walk someone through all that.

that's when you reply: good, it's working...problem? *then pause*

:troll:

Ive heard about this...

Can't wait until they call me, I'm gonna ask them a bunch of questions then eventually tell them I have a Mac.

I didn't get a call from IT, but i literally just got a call from CANCUN MEXICO.
saying i got picked for a trip for 4.

anyone else get this call

Apparently this is getting popular. Novus sent us an email warning about this type of scam.

Just got a call from them today LOL.

Told them I have a mac and the guy said I had to upgrade it every 6months for "maximum performance" to some mumbo jumbo. Then said I should go to my computer to complete the proccess. I asked if I had to complete it, he said if i wanted to, obviously not. Then he thanks me and hangsup :fullofwin:

Got a total time of 2:23 talking to him. My dad was talking to him trying to understand him for 4 mins :bowrofl:


EDIT: LOLOLOLOLOLOL Called again, told them I was running linux, -long pause- *click*

EDIT#2: Caller ID picked up their number (1) 510 943-3040

edit: long but funny

When they call tell them your name is Bill... Bill Gates.

They call you by your last name Mr.____ or w/e:(

How did the scammers get your numbers??? Do they just call people randomly from the yellowpages?

No clue, but they called me again. Woman doesn't know what Linux is LOL.

what? you do not have to enable remote desktop at all. they arent using that method.

they will direct the chump to a website to download a 3rd party client file.