Phone Call From India Your Computer Has A Virus Trolling The Trolls

[Homer J Simpson]

This one is pretty funny. shango066 just posted this. He got his call from India and had some fun with them.

[danbuff]

funny.
I just minutes ago got a call from Jerry... I gave him 3 seconds though

[eugenenine]

The last one to call me "from support"  I told them "No, I'm from support".  Went round and round with them for a while until he hung up on me.

[danbuff]

Good points
I must become more compassionate..
I will pray for a conversion for myself   

[Skimask]

The last one to call me "from support"  I told them "No, I'm from support".  Went round and round with them for a while until he hung up on me.

In Soviet Russia, support is from YOU!

[johnh]

My Mother In law got one those scam phone calls a few years ago. Saying they were from Microsoft and that there was problem with her computer. She kept them going going for about 20 minutes and then she told them she doesn't have a computer

[CJay]

Telling them where I work usually stops them dead.

[Don Hills]

The couple of calls I've had were from setups with a 1st and 2nd level "support" structure. The 1st level person sells you the pitch and gets you to check the error logs etc and agree to being "helped", then they transfer you to a second level person who talks you through running  remote access and f***s fixes your computer. 2nd level are likely less numerous and more highly paid, so the trick is to make it through to the 2nd level as quickly as possible to maximise the cost of wasting their time. I had one totally lose it and spend almost 10 minutes abusing me for wasting his time...

[HighVoltage]

I have always so much fun with these kinds of phone calls, they never call back and remove me from their list afterwards.

The trick is to turn everything around at them.
If they ask you if you want to participate in a survey or whatever you say YES! and then you start asking them questions.
Then they will try to convince you that they are suppose to ask the question but you always have one more question.
This drives them nuts and eventually they hang up.
And never call back!

[CJay]

Telling them where I work usually stops them dead.

That only means they hang up and move onto the next automatically generated call. OK it gets rid of them for you. What needs to happen is to NOT get rid of them before wasting at least some of their time.

Nah, I'd rather they got off the phone as fast as possible, I have precious little time to waste baiting them.

The sad thing is I have met someone who's computer was royally owned by these scumbags.

[BravoV]

Just make a Windows VM specifically made to serve them, imagine the fun. 

[CJay]

Just make a Windows VM specifically made to serve them, imagine the fun. 

Some of them have got smart to that.

They're best just dumped unless you've got time to waste.

[BradC]

Just make a Windows VM specifically made to serve them, imagine the fun. 

I've done this several times now (I wasn't clever enough to think of it originally, but by Jove I've had some fun). My record is stretching out one call for a little over an hour. Pretend to be a pensioner who does Internet banking on his pc, but does not have a credit card. Don't let on the last bit until the end of the call when they are asking for your payment details. I always ask them for their contact info so I can go into the bank and have a cheque made out to them. Again, my record is 5 call backs across 2 days asking for payment details.

Nasty little fuckers. All of them. My theory is every hour with me is not scamming someone else.

[CatalinaWOW]

I have always so much fun with these kinds of phone calls, they never call back and remove me from their list afterwards.

The trick is to turn everything around at them.
If they ask you if you want to participate in a survey or whatever you say YES! and then you start asking them questions.
Then they will try to convince you that they are suppose to ask the question but you always have one more question.
This drives them nuts and eventually they hang up.
And never call back!

I'm glad the never call back part works for you, but I haven't found that to be the case.  I suspect there are many of these operations and that they don't share information in any meaningful way.

When I am not busy I sometimes have fun with these calls.  Stupid responses that play on the English as a second language limitations of these people seem to be most effective.  Things like "My windows have computers?  Imagine that." or "I don't have a technical so how can you support it?"

[eugenenine]

Pretend to be a pensioner who does Internet banking on his pc, but does not have a credit card. Don't let on the last bit until the end of the call when they are asking for your payment details. I always ask them for their contact info so I can go into the bank and have a cheque made out to them. Again, my record is 5 call backs across 2 days asking for payment details.

Nasty little fuckers. All of them. My theory is every hour with me is not scamming someone else.

I tried that so they ask me to click start, I tell them i don't have start and go from there.  (I have the kde panel menu)

My aunt in WV got one of those calls and responded "we ain't got one of dem computers here"