Hello, my name is Peggy ...
Posted on 02/09/2017 9:01:22 AM PST by Rebelbase
Some guy has developed a phone bot that will call the Indian scamming "Windows Support" phone numbers that appear on the "You're computer has been infected, call this number" virus screens than we have all seen at one time or another.
The call is automated with a pre-recorded "Hello.........can you hear me.......yes......uh-huh....yes.....un-huh......yes.....Hold on a sec, there's someone at the door.......Sorry, I got distracted, can you start over again....yes.....un-huh....", etc.
He claims he was able to call one center 300 times and the center phone was eventually disconnected.
Voice recordings of the calls at the link.
(Excerpt) Read more at jollyrogertelephone.com ...
I ain’t got time for that, I just want to order up a drone strike on their headquarters.
I had one of those calls awhile back. Every time he spoke I interrupted and asked questions about Linux. This went on for a few minutes until he got frustrated and hung up. I’ve never got another call. Too bad, I enjoyed myself.
Re: “You’re computer has been infected, call this number”
Lol! Sounds like some FReeper could have written this (”You’re” computer has been...)
At the risk of treating a humorous subject seriously, India has hundreds of call centers and thousands of so-called workers left over after US and other Western countries realized what a disaster India-based tech support and inbound call reception had been, from the unintelligible accents to the utter lack of comprehension of idiomatic English (eg ‘no dice,’ ‘out of gas’ etc.). Taking on Anglicized names like Sam or Mike didn’t help one bit.
These call centers have been shifted mostly to the Philippines where labor is almost as cheap but they have a bit of Western savvy thanks to the Christian heritage of the nation.
Back in India, they have turned the call centers and workers into a force for evil as they plug away attempting to scam someone out of $100, $50, even $30.
I had a doctor - A DOCTOR! - on the verge of paying them to remove a simple popup before he called me to ask innocently about it.
Hello, my name is Peggy ...
It’s the sort of scam that got Podesta.
“I ain’t got time for that, I just want to order up a drone strike on their headquarters.”
Agreed.
For a while we ot them about once a week. We started having fun with it after a while. Once i pretended to be afraid to touch my mouse or keyboard lest i catch the virus. They hung up about the time i was calling the family to leave the house so we could butn it down to stop the plague. Another time i pretended to be managing a datacenter wih thousands of servers and tried to get them to identify which had the problem.
“This is your Window’s Technical support person. We need to assist you with removing a virus”, etc., etc.” (Or something to that effect). I just hang up on them.
Yeah, that was me.
don’t just hang up, waste as much of their time as you can first.
I am planning on freaking the next one out by chanting some curse at him to see what happens
Or a Rod From God tungsten telephone pole from orbit. Much more dramatic!
I get the full page warning to “CLICK HERE!” to download a Mozilla patch NOW! Another attempt to get into the computer. The http address is different each call.
Good virus protection prevents downloading such trash.
Lol! So “your” the one!
I find these things hypnotic! I am listening to each of them, one by one. I love it. Payback time!
I want to see a bot that reaches out from the phone and beats the sh!t out of them.
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