If someone from the ‘Windows Security Desk’ calls you, hang up immediately

[unhappycamper]

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/11/02/2870289/if-someone-from-the-windows-security.html

If 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 “we’re done with Halloween, it’s 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 one’s 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]

1. Call 'em an asshole scammer scumbag first......

...THEN hang up!

[hobbit709]

2. When they call me, the conversation goes like this.

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]

3. Laugh at them - it pisses them off and they hang up

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]

4. DON'T HANG UP!

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]

5. I keep wishing that they would call me.

As someone who has been doing computer support for more than twenty years, I would string them along for the ride of their life!