I just played stupid for over 15 minutes and laughed hysterically. He asked for me to press window key and r and what appeared on the screen. I yelled chickens. Chickens everywhere. I had fun. I told him we have a backward keyboard. The bottom left key was the f12 key. After many many minutes. He told me he word take my computer certificate away.
Sure you will then when he realized we were laughing at him. New plan…I hope they call again. I got a call from today. He hang up, why? The guy spent ten minutes explaining where the start button was. Man everytime im feeling down from now on im just gonna give them a call. I always lead them on til I get bored then I unload with all of my saved up hostility in a string of never ending profanity and set down the phone without hanging up.
I just got this call,knowing it was some kind of scam. The lady asked me to hold down the FN key and letter R. I told her nothing was happening,and she seemed confused by that. Of course my pc was turned off. And then I asked if it mattered if I had a mac. She swore at me and then hung up. The phone number on caller id is My computer illiterate wife got the call. Her solution?
Got the same call twice now from an indian guy. Just received an identical call. Indian guy hard to understand. I talked with him for several minutes. He described the steps I should take so that he could show me the virus. I hung up.
I just got a new computer because two weeks ago I noticed a webnote for Ransomware telling me how to get the data on my computer back. An encryption virus RSA gained access thru email. Made every file on the computer unreadable. Screw them. I hung up the phone on him and he immediately called back. I laughed for about 10 seconds while he went on, then he finally muttered something about my Mom and hung up. I got the same exact call about a half hour ago but I kept the douchebag on the phone for a half hour asking him all kind of questions and speaking extremely loud.
With all the noise in the background it was obvious he was calling from a call center and the heavy Indian accent was comical — but his name was Steve. I knew exactly what he wanted — he wanted to sell me a registry cleaner but first he had to try to scare me into thinking that..
After a half hour I hung up on him and he called back several times. The number that showed up on my caller ID was a series of zeros then another line of numbers. Got that call, heavy east Indian accent, male. Told me to do the win key r thing told him now what? He asked what I saw, hell my computers been broken for 6 months, been using my nook and smart phone for Internet.
Told him I had another important call and I would call him back, said his name was Kevin, ya right, and his is These scammers wear me out…. This has been going on for a few weeks now so i rang the phone company and they said if you can get the telephone number they can trace them.
Several in the last couple of months. So annoying. Microsoft will not be calling you to fix your computer issues! They have to be having some success on poor unsuspecting souls, or they would not keep calling.
I had the call earlier this morning. Went through the usual stuff and I pretended to do as told Win R eventvwr etc. I must have given the right responses for a while but at one stage he asked what I saw on screen. Had a similar call this morning. He said that the companies have the numbers anyway, so I told him that meant he was using the information illegally and he should be careful as he could be arrested.
They sure are persistent bastards. Had this scam call today. I decided to play along for a while. Had the exact same thing happen yesterday. I told him it was my Dads old desk top that Id just toss it and he then said let me talk to my supervisor and see what I can do because you sound like such a nice person.
He typed a diagnosis report then asked for my payment info. I told him I would just wait that it wasnt important though he insisted. I said Im retired and own everything I have and I only deal in cash. He then gave me this and and to call and ask for Frank when I got a Visa gift card to pay for it. They called me recently thrice not realizing it was the same person.
If you ever wanna seem em really go nuts do what I did. What was the message? I think the scammer was completely shocked. The next time I pulled a really good stunt on them. They said yes. So I said hold on I have to get the router plugged in. So while that was going not I asked what it was about. They said the whole virus line thing. I asked if it was a remote controlling or keylogging virus and they said yes at which point I said that those were features built into my system, but thanked em for finding the bug.
Then I told them that this was the third time my custom system had supposedly sent them messages and to take them off the list as it was a bug in the OS not a virus. Never heard from them again. I declined and after threats of doom and gloom for my PC they hung up. Hello folks, new call today from this number Dude with Indian accent called and explained a virus attack on my computer.
I hung up and they guy tried to call me 20 minutes after. I got a message on my computer that said that my computer was locked because I had a network virus and I turned it off. It was a message from Windows supposedly and had a phone number to call which I knew was an number but had not heard of these scams. He was very nice and told me to either take my computer some where to get it cleaned up or they could do it for me but for a price. Yes I now know how stupid I was. I just got the call again.
Probably the th time in the past 2 years. I always play with them on the phone and tell them I am doing what he asks. Then I just tell him he is a scammer and that I dont even own a PC.
They always hang up and then I block the number for the future. Maybe the FBI could go after these guys instead of wasting millions trying to unlock empty iphones. This was fun — I am a windows expert since nt4 days. So they want you to run event viewer vie run command eventvwr — harmless. This scam calling has been happening here for the last year or two, also; sometimes we have been getting several calls of this type a month.
Which is where one should hang up, at the latest, unless one knows exactly what one is doing and likes to play with these nitwits. Said he was from BT IT department and told me that between 2am and 5am people are using my internet connection to do very bad things!
I put the phone down! So, my computer started talking to me saying there was a virus detected and provided a number to call. Gullible me called and immediately realized it was a scam. I will contact Dell to ensure proper programs in place to avoid these goofballs again. Same heavy Indian accent. Said he was from Microsoft and that my computer had been flagged because I had a firewall problem to do with Microsoft Essentials.
I asked who he was. Told me I had subscribed to their service a year ago. Then said if I would hold down the Win flag and type R, he could help me fix my security. He hesitated and then hung up. Hey guys. Just had the same thing happen to me in UK. An Indian guy told me that my pc was infected and at risk….. Then he asked me to push the Windows key and R together. I asked him what that would do….. Needless to say these dicks do get some success with the old, non-pc savy folks.
I just had a call for this exact thing. FYI the number he gave me is extension After the tenth call I decided to have some fun. I told the caller that i was glad he called because my computer was displaying the dreaded blue screen.
He asked me to hold and got his technical guru on the phone. That guy proceeded to have start my PC in Safe Mode. I acted like I was following instructions. Once I was logged in he had me do the windows R procedure. By now I had had enough. I strung him along and acted concerned.
I ran Norton while on the phone and it balked at a couple of tracking cookies and that was it. At that point he hung up… He chickened out! He even had a blocked number. I received a phone call at am from from this Indian Nitwit and I told me that I had a problem with my computer. I played dumb with this asshole and he told me to turn on my computer. I was watching the Today Show and never got up and said just a minute until it loads up. The fucking Indian asshole hung up on me.
I laughed my ass of while drinking my coffee and continued watching the Today Show. Why do I still have a landline? Anyway the call usually always has a foreign accent that reminds me of India or Pakistan, and the caller usually introduces himself with a very American sounding name such as David.
I usually simply hang up on the scammer, but on some days when I am bored, I have as much fun as I can with it. I ALWAYS answer my landline phone in a high-pitched, quivering voice disguised as an old woman, and the call goes something like this: Me: Hellll loooo??? Ohhhh N-N-Nooo! First, is your computer turned on? Me: N-N-No,….
A-a-a c-c-computer va-va-virus? W-W-What d-d-do I n-n-need to d-d-do? Can you turn on your computer for me? I then set the telephone on the table while I surf the web for 3 minutes… Then I pick up the phone again and…. Me: Hellll loooo, who-who is this? David: Mamm, we have discovered a virus on your computer and… Me: A-A-A v-v-virus, oh m-m-my gud-gud-goodness! David: Can you turn on your computer for me?
Me: I-I-I think so, hold, hold, hold on a m-m-minute. A few minutes later… There! This-this-this c-c-computer t-t-takes a lo-lo-long t-t-time to boo-boo-boot up.
Five minutes later I pick up the phone, and the idiot scammer is still there. Me: Ohhh-kaaay,, The c-c-computer is t-t-turned on n-n-now, but it w-w-wants my p-p-p-password.
H-H-Hold on, m-m-my p-p-p-password is on a pea-pea-piece of pay-pay-paper, in m-m-my p-p-purse. I thin-thin-think I I I la-la-left it in in in the ka-ka-kitchen….. A few minutes later… Ahh he-he-here it is!
Now, Wha-wha-why am I la-la-looking at m-m-my pa-pa-pa-password? David: Mamm, you need to enter the password on your computer! Me: Oh, Tha-tha-thank you sonny, wha-wha-what did you you you say ya-ya-your name is? David: This is David, Did you enter your password yet? Wa-wa-wait, I-I-I nee-nee-need m-m-my glasses Sonny! Me: Now, wh-wh-why am I in the-the-the kit-kit-kitchen? David: Mamm, you are getting your glasses!
They are in your purse! Me: Ra-ra-right! How-how d-d-did you kna-kna-know they were in my p-p-purse? David: Mamm, we here at Microsoft know everything!
Now, can you enter the password back at your computer? Two minutes later… Me: Ahhhhh, He-he-here wa-wa-we go aga-ga-gain! David reads me the letters and numbers one at a time, and I repeat each letter or number, slowly each time. But I feign deafness, and repeat an incorrect letter almost every other time.
I ring it, which causes my three dogs to start barking…. I then carry on a loud conversation with with a non-existent young man selling magazine subscriptions, playing the rolls of both the teenager and the old lady.
Me: Hellll-loooo??? David: Hello Mamm! Me: C-C-Computer??? No th-th-thanks, I all-all-already have a c-c-computer. David: Mamm, You have a computer virus and I need you to go to your computer! I keep going on until the scammer eventually hangs upon me!
My record time for stringing one of these scammers along has been 42 minutes! I have really enjoyed reading these comments. Yes, I have had calls from these scammers and have never gone along with them.
They will normally say yes. Then put the phone on mute and continue with what you were doing. Then a couple minutes later I come back and ask if I need to be on line of course I do. I say ok, I need to turn on modem and that will take a few minutes. Then I come back and whatever he asks, I need a minute. I got one of these calls today.
It was a female with a thick Indian accent. I became wary the second I heard her accent, so I started recording the call. Is this Mr. This is he. My name is Tracy Williams. I had no idea that my computer was in danger — much less that it was being monitored.
Are you sure you have the right person? If you wish to fix any damage that may have been done, we can guide you through a diagnostics test to discover what the hacker has changed. Your execution here has been nearly perfect. This scam from India has been going on for years… and still active. My recommendation is to play along as much as possible to waist their time. My record was 30 minutes. During that time I faked my computer shutdown twice and re-boot, bad connection etc.
At the end I told them that I was from the police and we located their call. I said we were coming over shortly with a squad. They screamed away and stopped calling…. I get these calls several times a week.
When they tell me they are from Dell or Windows,I simply ask for the pass code that is on our account. An earful of whistle is all they need to be convinced to leave me alone. I asked him to prove that he was from Google. He called his supervisor to talk to me, who did not have an Indian accent, who said he was from Google, read out my address, name and telephone number. I told him that did not prove that he was from Google. Strong Indian accent. Begging me not to hang up to check and verify if he is really working for Microsoft.
Yes, just got the call saying that they were going to refund me…I told them to keep the money…they pursued pretty good. Indian accent…… phone number was …. I have a lot of spare time and find entertainment in them. I just play stupid and usually get them to make some sort sexual suggestion before hanging up on me. Today Wilson from New Jersey, with his Indian accent, suggest I masterbate my keyboard with my own hand before throwing it out the window.
Same thing happened here. Cold call from guy with heavy Indian accent. I could barely understand him. He wanted me to press Windows key and hold down letter R.
He said this would help identify files on my computer that should be removed. I asked him for a call back number. He said he was here to help me. I told him I was not going to give him access to my PC and that I needed to call him back. He hung up without saying a word. Just got this call yesterday. They said they had by product number and they also had my name. They spoke with a very heavy foriegn accent and said they were in N.
I called my tech support person and took my computer to them for a complete cleaning. I have this call nearly every day. Just had one now off an Indian man. Yesterday an Indian woman rang me and when I hung up on her she kept on persistently ringing and when I answered again she asked why I had hung up on her and that she would just keep ringing and ringing and true to her word she did.
Got this call at AM. Well, I got the reverse. I visited a web site and I message showed up on my screen with the Microsoft logo. I called for the sake of finding out what the scam was and got a guy in India that worked for SupportBuddy. I hung up and cut him off my computer. It was a lovely exercise to witness. I just got a cold call from an Indian sounding guy claiming to be from Windows support and got them to give me their number.
The guy said he was based in Victoria st and gave me a which responds when you call back. I did not hit the OK button but pulled out my internet connection as a precaution.
Long gone are the days when only the really nerdy had computers, most you people today grew up with a computer in there homes. A lot of the animosity between users and Programmers come from them thinking something should be easy when in reality its not. Programmers tend to get moody too. He said he was from Telstra.
He never rang back. Not that one anyway. Computer was frozen to protect passwords. Showed on screen that my security was off and showed 9 people on my ip address hackers.
Then i needed to pay to remove the virus. I didnt. My security isnt detecting any viruses or malware. When I get the scam calls I just act dumb leading them on to the point they are so frustrated with me they hang up.
I act afraid that the virus they told me will infect me etc. Just received the same called.. I said, I see some kind of a code on my screen.. Strung the guy along for a while before telling him to go and do something physically and biologically impossible.
I though it was suspicios, good thing I called. I just had one of these phone scammers call too. Then I hung up. I wonder how they rationalise it to themselves. You can have mine for free! They ring me every morning around 8. I had one of these calls, went along with him for quite some time…after about 15 minutes he ask me what my screen was reading.
I was quite shocked. Just had another one tonight, told him I had to do something and I would be right back, he was so sure he was going to scam me he stayed on the line for about 15 minutes… they can be fun! Too bad some people actually believe them and get scammed. Obviously this scam is alive and well. I wish I had thought to reprimand her. Hard indian accent. Oh well. Hung up. All good. Got 4 calls, all the same story, heavy Indian accent, from Microsoft, my computer sending error messages, click the Windows key and the R at same time.
I started talking to him like a very old lady who could not understand why my computer was sending wrong messages when I had nothing other than email.
He insisted, thought I was fair game! He got very upset and hung-up. I hung up! They tried with me today. How they associate our phone number to our IP address, does it means they already installed the rootkit on my computer. I think is time for a new formatting. I just got a call and he said he worked for Microsoft and wanted to prove to me that he was looking at my computer and had my computer number. I said my IP address he said yeah that one. He said let me show you proof so you feel more comfortable.
He said push the windows key and R at the same time. He said no I will show you real quick just push the windows key and R. He said it only takes a second did you push it your information is about to be stolen you need to hurry. I was thinking yeah its about to be stolen real quick!
Like as soon as I push this key! We will see if he calls back. I opened my computer and run a full scan and everything was fine. While it was running I got on my phone and did a search of callers telling to push windows and R and all kinds of sh!
They are working all the angles, lazy ff! Get a job. Foreigner I could barely understand. Told me to press Ctrl R—I said I did lie 1. He asked what I saw on my screen, and I said my desktop lie 2. I said I had a call coming in and would need to call him back lie 3. He said his name was Mac Johnson lie 4 with Microsoft lie 5 and I should heed his warnings or something bad was going to happen to the information on my PC lie 6.
And how funny, JSmith! I got the same call 2 weeks ago from the IRS and have a warrant out for my arrest. Guess that means the IRS will confiscate my computer. My wife had one of these this afternoon,we are in the UK, it was really funny coz she kept the lady with the really heavy accent on the phone for ages.
The Indian lady then became helpful and tried this over and over for ages until my wife then announced that all the computers in our house are all using Linux Mint. My wife then hung up on her because we have a life LOL. This scam has been going on for many years. I first noticed the hackers back in After playing with them like a fish on a line, I hang up on them. I have other ways to play with them that I cannot mention here because they are probably watching me write at this moment.
Call the police and make a report. At least you will have it documented if they ever get away with your stuff. Scam is still running, today my Servicedesk environment twice got the call only one number for them, so they are stubborn.
Only 30 minutes ago, I got the call…they will just go through their script, because I was replying in dutch. Told them my computer was off. The flag key lol. Even while I told her in dutch the PC was off. As it dawned to me I was answering my cellphone, I hung up, but I am pretty sure they will try again, as my colleague got it twice, with about 2 hours between.
I will play it out. Just had the most amazing time with these guys over the phone. Not too sure how he felt about Alicia Myers though as he started to tell me not to waste his precious time. I got a call today about this very scam. He replied by saying I am spending my precious time to help a stupid mother effing woman like you fix your computer which has a very bad virus…WHOAH!!!
First of if you were really customer service trying to help me you surely would not speak to me that way so thank you for you time and hung up.
They just will stop at nothing. It is obviously still working and they are still making money off people or they would not still be doing it. This call call from New York but both men had very thick accents…possibly indian but I am no expert. When I asked him a question he clearly had to go back and read from his script.
Told him to kindly remove my number from his call list and a few other things besides! Hahaha hahaha. Ups and downs? Then I took the call and played with her for another good 10 minutes finally getting her frustrated enough that she was going to hang up at which point we told her that we were not idiots and that she was a piece of s!
She called us the same.. Look up relevant videos on youtube to see ways people deal with these people — if you have some spare time you can have fun. I got greedy and told her I just had a power failure but the power company said the power should come back on in 30 minutes, could she stay on the line. The scam is alive and well. Nuo Chen Nuo Chen 1. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown.
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Details required :. Cancel Submit. Previous Next. The R key is the one that is located between the "E" and "T" key. Hope that helps. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to Jian20's post on January 9, Some scammers will call and say you have a virus and that they will 'help' you 'fix' it they will upload a virus to your computer.
They will ask you to push the Windows Key and R at the same time. Don't run whatever they tell you. In reply to jfybel's post on August 22, Just happened to me. Call came in from a pay phone. Person on the other end had an Indian accent.
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