Every once in awhile I get a phone call I know is a scam but if I'm bored and have time to waste I play along a bit just for fun.
This girl called me twice today using surprisingly good English. Still an accent though.
It was the ol' 'problems with your computer, let us help' scam.
This one said she was from Microsoft.
So I play along until we get to the point where she asks me if I'm sitting at my computer.
Then I tell her "Oh wait..." and I start telling her about these evil scumbags who will get you to type your way into the guts of your machine and trick you into freezing the system then they demand money to unfreeze it.
I'm still expanding on what a band of useless parasites these slime are when she cuts me off and tells me that's not her, of course. She's from Microsoft and can prove it. She tells me she has my unique identifier given during the windows registration process. Only Microsoft and my machine know this number she tells me and she can tell me what it is.
Knocks me off my game. I hadn't heard that one before.
So I looked it up and if anybody else should ever be bored enough to talk to one of these scammers I can help you out so you don't get stumped at that one:
This just in from US-CERT:
I get some people from India attempting to get me to give them control of my PC and credit card.
I tell that some Indian scumbag assholes keep trying to get me to do that I and I tick them off to the nth degree. It worked they don’t bug me anymore.
They haven't phoned me since I asked the girl to wait a second while I got my pants off and then told her to start talking. She went ballistic and called her supervisor who happened to be a guy to come and talk to me. Well he started on how he was gonna have me arrested for sexual harassment and all other kinds of things. But he went completely ballistic when I cut him off and told him I was close but, could he talk a little softer.
He then proceeded to tell me he was calling the police to have me arrested which, given his profession pissed me off no end. So I told him that I was a retired angry old Navy asshole who had enough pension money to get on a flight to India and search every call center till I found him and when I did I'd personally unscrew his head and crap down the cavity.
The prick hung up but, I just don't understand why they haven't phoned back.
They hung up on me I was trying to get them to call back cause hubby really wants to play.
oh an other note you should see the faces of the guys that come door to door trying to sign you up for a good hydro or gas rate. They ask for the bills and I smile and tell them I'm not allowed to look at the bills. Works every time