aharbi Posted February 22, 2016 Share #1 Posted February 22, 2016 Thought I've heard them all, (IRS, tech support, etc.) guess not. Did a web search and this one has been around since 2010. The phone call was an EMERGENCY call this time that my Windows License has expired. I played around with him like I was in a panic, didn't know Linux used a Windows license? How could that be? Please explain?, before I asked him what kind of fool did he think he was talking to. He said FU and hung up ;-) Which surprised me, I know their training has tought them to use American names but didn't know it was so extensive in using our superlatives as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etcswjoe Posted February 22, 2016 Share #2 Posted February 22, 2016 They are fun to mess with, I have been called several nice names by "John Smith from Microsoft" , the bad part is people that don't know any better fall for this crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djh3 Posted February 22, 2016 Share #3 Posted February 22, 2016 I have had a couple. The last one was "from Microsoft" and the nice man was informing me I had serious infections and bugs in my system. I said really which one? He say your home PC, again I said which one? Third time he says your home PC, I repeated myself again. then he says how its going to lock up and all this stuff. I'm like "really" So I ask which OS is he speaking of. Well windows 7 and your severe yada yada. I said well you have me confused with someone else, because my home machine is on XP. Good Day Habib. I got a similar FU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnMidnight Posted February 24, 2016 Share #4 Posted February 24, 2016 Don't worry about the call. Most often then not its legitimate bs. Only one person I know who went thru with it. Everything was fine til I ran a health check. Imagine my mock surprise when I watch MalwareBytes number start climbing on infected files found. It was a God damn mess. -Mobile Posting at its finest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leftcoaster Posted February 24, 2016 Share #5 Posted February 24, 2016 My latest endeavor is to ask the caller to wait until I can get the 'boss' then put the sucker on hold until he disconnects himself. I think it might save at least one other person from having to endure the spiel! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug royal86 Posted February 24, 2016 Share #6 Posted February 24, 2016 I got a call on my phone at 1 am that my master card had been locked. Then it said press 1 to unlock it. So I pressed to hang up. I don't have a master card so I knew off the back it was a scam to get a credit card number Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikerjohn Posted February 25, 2016 Share #7 Posted February 25, 2016 back when i had a home phone i got smart and would blow a whistle into the phone. never called again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mraf Posted February 27, 2016 Share #8 Posted February 27, 2016 Last one that called here said I was a a$$h. Its nice to be recognized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickardracing Posted February 29, 2016 Share #9 Posted February 29, 2016 CO2 powered air horn from a boat shot right into the phone works pretty good.......Not that I have ever done something like that. A friend of mine did it..Yeah...that's who it was... a friend.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bongobobny Posted March 1, 2016 Share #10 Posted March 1, 2016 Yah!! The trick is to start speaking softer and softer so they are listening really hard... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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