Indian Tech Support Scams

[Anonymous 11]

I was working with a client on a VPN solution when one of the guys ran over to me in a panic and told me someone had called him saying his computer was a security threat. I told him it was a scam and said “Let me have at him!”

We get into his office, and put the nice guy with the Indian accent on the speakerphone and the guy told him an IT pro was on site ready to speak to him. I first asked him to give us this supposed ID of the computer which he claimed to have. He authoritatively rattles off this string of bulls~~~ numbers that matched nothing.

I then asked him what our Internet WAN IP address was. He quickly hung up on us. I wanted to play with him some more so disappointing. We had a good laugh though.

[ShiroeParticipant 139]

Yeah it is fun to mess with not only the tech support scammers but most telemarketers. It is really fun. Glad to see this post here.
cheers

When a man looks inside himself and accepts he is no one. When he accepts he is nothing. Only then can he ascend to greatness

[Greg HondaParticipant 6406]

Tried it on me.

Him “Your computer has a virus”.
Me, “Which one?”
Him “Your windows PC”
Me “Which version of Windows?
Him “your Windows PC”
Me “Yes but which one? My network runns 95, 98, 98SE, XP, Win7 and Linux. Can you give me the IP address?”

He got flustered, mumbled something incoherant and hung up.

Who falls for this s~~~?

I mean, don’t get me wrong, everyones tryin’ to make a buck and call centre work is soul destroying n’all, but this is just demanding money with menaces. The victims are probably people who use their PCs to post updates on Facebook and look at videos of funny deformed Cats. Some of which happen to look like Adolf Hitler or whatever.

Mass communication sounds like a great idea untill you realise that it allows the Masses to communicate with you.

It's Time to get Wise

[AutoliteParticipant]

I’ve heard about people blasting one of those aerosol horns into the phone. Wouldn’t that just f~~~ up your own phone???

[RennieParticipant]

I have yet to get one of these calls, but I have known other people who did.

If I ever get one, I’m going to have some fun with them.

[Anonymous 11]

I’ve another story. An old girlfriend’s elderly mother got hit for $199.99 US by these scammers. Hey, she cooked C-Pig many a fine meal when he was young. Pigs never forget.

I built her brand new laptop after the Indians scammed her on her old one. Wo and behold, as I was deploying the new laptop for her the Indians called again. I f~~~ed with him very badly too.

@rennie: You will. They hang up quickly if you show any technical chops. I’m sure you could set up a VM and call them though.

Here is an IT savvy guy f~~~ing with them:

[anonymousyamParticipant 4605]

I have had situations where websites tried to get me to call those people but never have done it. Like for example i was trying to relive my past in a virtual machine and one of the sites i went on as a kid was garfield.com and i accidently left out the f when i was typing it because i was typing so quickly.

Other times i was watching porn on tumblr (its easier) before i had adblock and it opened a f~~~ing site trying to get me to call them and then there was a few more times but you get the point i just needed to open task manager and kill the web browser process to end it.

Just an east coast asshole who likes to curse, If you get offended by words like fuck, cunt, shit, piss, bitch or any racial slurs then you just scroll down.

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