I usually only just get calls from Hindu guys telling me that my computer is slow or that if I don’t pay them, cops are coming.
I usually have a good time with them before they hang up on me.
I’ve gotten dozens of these calls, and I like to f@ck with them. They usually say they are from “Windows” or “Microsoft” something or other and they have said they have detected that my computer is infected somehow.
I have asked them in response on several occasions:
If you’re who you say you are, what is my router IP address (BTW, it is NOT the default setting)?,
If you are who you say you are, what is my MS product license number, you should know it since you called me after ‘detecting’ my computer......,
If you are who you say you are, send me an immediate confirmation to my email address, which you should know now,
Give me my home address that goes with the telephone number you dialed (you, specifically dialed that number yourself, right?),
and on and on. They don’t know what to do in response.
I mess with them too. I sometimes act like the dumb user who can’t follow instructions. Often I end up asking “which computer is the problem, I have many?”, then I tell them “but it’s running Linux”. Then I tell them they should be ashamed of themselves.
I immediately go into my gold buying routine with the computer or IRS scammers.
I tell them that I am buying $30,000 in gold. How much can they sell me? How quick can they deliver. Need gold right now. Just keep asking for gold. No matter what they say I keep up the gold request. I talk fast and loud. I need gold. Get it for me.
My wife thinks I am nuts. She is right. However the number of calls is decreasing.
I used to play with them, I’d ask if they have take out...