"Hello I'm from Windows" Scam?
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They called me back after 5 minutes of high pitch squeeling to say I need to go to a mental home. Another one keptcalling calling me a bas****man and hed kill me for wasting his time. Phoned near 20 times in a row, in a quite voice so his boss could not hear. I do love winding them up, though my calls seem to be getting less.
-Michael- said:
The very last time I had one of these calls, I kept the guy on the call for 40 mins, just told him the computer was still loading etc, at the 45 min mark he just randomly said "F is for f
k you" and put the phone down, not had one since and that was last year, I'd get them around every two weeks before that... 
Impressive work - my best was about 20 minutes. My logic used to be that keeping them occupied would stop them calling someone else who might be taken in. The thought of these guys scamming people like my parents makes me very angry indeed. I don't get to answer the calls these days as I don't work from home any more. k you" and put the phone down, not had one since and that was last year, I'd get them around every two weeks before that... Only had one guy phone back. I kept asking him for the name of the company he worked for - after about 10 attempts I told him to f**k off and put the phone down. He called back to ask why I'd sworn at him. When I asked for his surname so I could search Microsoft's internal directory for him he put the phone down on me!
Edited by BraveSirRobin on Saturday 11th June 01:36
Edited by BraveSirRobin on Saturday 11th June 01:38
I strung one of these "vindows" parasites along for nearly an hour whilst I was cooking a meal, waiting for the pc to load up, asking for patience as I am "not very good with computers", not being able to carry out his simple instructions properly time after time.
He asked me to go to windows and report what I could see, I described my garden yet he still persisted!
The final straw was when he asked me to press the windows key and I could not find it, I told him I could see no such key and read out each button in turn until I got to the one with "a little apple on it", he put the phone down .
He asked me to go to windows and report what I could see, I described my garden yet he still persisted!
The final straw was when he asked me to press the windows key and I could not find it, I told him I could see no such key and read out each button in turn until I got to the one with "a little apple on it", he put the phone down .
Had the call yesterday, I said I didn't have a computer, that confused him for a mili second, then he said did I have a laptop, at which time I told him to ps off and stop wasting my time.
Got an odd email from "Apple" yesterday as well about a recent upgrade, and it I didn't want the upgraded storage go to this site, which just wanted all my card details, including the three digits on the back, yea'r right.
s off and stop wasting my time.Got an odd email from "Apple" yesterday as well about a recent upgrade, and it I didn't want the upgraded storage go to this site, which just wanted all my card details, including the three digits on the back, yea'r right.
If I'm in the mood I string them along for as long as possible.
Starting with: when I'm asked to type characters into the little box at the bottom left of my screen I ask them to help me be accurate, as I have problems with their Welsh accent, by using the NATO alphabet; I then go on to type their exact instructions (and repeat what they say as they say it) such as "Eforecho, number2, IfourIndia ...." etc. until I tell them that the little box is full - they then try to explain that I shouldn't have typed exactly what they said;
and so it goes on and on and on .....
If I'm not in the mood I tell them that I know they're not from Windows and that they've actually rung for telephone sex and would they hold on a moment whilst I get my other two partners to participate on the extensions.
Starting with: when I'm asked to type characters into the little box at the bottom left of my screen I ask them to help me be accurate, as I have problems with their Welsh accent, by using the NATO alphabet; I then go on to type their exact instructions (and repeat what they say as they say it) such as "Eforecho, number2, IfourIndia ...." etc. until I tell them that the little box is full - they then try to explain that I shouldn't have typed exactly what they said;
and so it goes on and on and on .....
If I'm not in the mood I tell them that I know they're not from Windows and that they've actually rung for telephone sex and would they hold on a moment whilst I get my other two partners to participate on the extensions.
speedyman said:
Had them on the phone for a new record 1 hour and 2 minutes yesterday. Even let them talk to my IT administrator (he's 5 years old).
Well done, but try to keep them talking a bit longer, it will save the fekkers bugging me 
I was very polite today, just said "I don't have a computer", he didn't even say "Thank you sir have a nice day, good bye", the line just went dead................
Sadly my Dad (84) fell for this. He got sent all kinds of credible carp (your support reps name is .... etc). We managed to get the credit card charge refunded. I reinstalled Windows to try to remove any of the rubbish they put on his system and blow me down if the fekkers didn't send him an email with a link to open and fill in if he was having problems. I guess they figured out they no longer had access to his machine.
I didn't make the 250 mile round trip to fix it this time so a local PC chap sorted it. The guy had a good idea which I should have thought of. He set up a separate user account without admin privileges and told him only to sign on with that one.
I hate the crooked bds.
I didn't make the 250 mile round trip to fix it this time so a local PC chap sorted it. The guy had a good idea which I should have thought of. He set up a separate user account without admin privileges and told him only to sign on with that one.
I hate the crooked b
ds. The number I had was UK but I think Skype can give random UK numbers(?).
Already had setup a virtual machine in VMWare and there is an option to change the connection speed of the Ethernet so I put it just above dial up.
Kept them going for well over an hour and after they gave me really 'helpful' advice about contacting my ISP due to such a poor line they would phone me up the next day.
This they did and I then told them (ie lied) I had it looked at by a computer shop and they sold me a Mac.
He was not amused at all and accused me of wasting HIS time.
Already had setup a virtual machine in VMWare and there is an option to change the connection speed of the Ethernet so I put it just above dial up.
Kept them going for well over an hour and after they gave me really 'helpful' advice about contacting my ISP due to such a poor line they would phone me up the next day.
This they did and I then told them (ie lied) I had it looked at by a computer shop and they sold me a Mac.
He was not amused at all and accused me of wasting HIS time.
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