So we get a call today, some fella immediately begins instructing me what do with my PC- a classic entry- immediately begin delegating orders bc sadly most people respond to this.
Not that it matters but the first fella had a russian accent, the second 'escalation' hand off was clearly an indian accent, therefore I really can't pinpoint where this scamjob call center is located.
Anyway, right off the bat this is obviously a scam but I do not want to miss this chance to discover his MO (and to just plain ol F with him) I fully pretended to incompetently follow his directions step-by-step. First, he asks you to identify the type of machine you're on "sir, what button is next to ctrl?" he asks. I said "a little flag picture" so he gets me to Window-R, msconfig > services and relay back to him how many windows services are stopped. I said "oh about 10", and he begins the real deception: tells me that viruses and malware have disabled these services (lol newsflash, that was me) and that they need to help me and fix my computer. Continuing to play along, he tells me to Window-R and enter an URL from there. I pretend to do it, and of course, the url is for his website, showmypc, and he tells me to click on a big yellow box that would enable remote access. Of course, the remote access/help and support services are all disabled on my machine, but I'm still not even going ot resolve that url.
This is where I change his game a little bit. I asked him point blank "Excuse me, sir, but do you think that I am a stupid man?" he said "excuse me?". I call him out on trying to remote into my machine. He insists that they need access to fix these 'problems', which I promptly tell him "these microsoft services have nothing to do with viruses/malware", yet still he insists. I then tell him that my installation of Windows is over 7 years old and that's not by accident, and continue to tell him that I just 'cooperated' to see what his MO is and that he should feel overwheming shame for trying to scam people into destroying their computer, STILL not understanding that I have a total grast on this situation. He bellows one last time "sir, are you a technician" to which I reply "YES!!!!" -- instantly the line goes dead.
What a [censored]!
Has anyone else here been solicited by these jerks???
Not that it matters but the first fella had a russian accent, the second 'escalation' hand off was clearly an indian accent, therefore I really can't pinpoint where this scamjob call center is located.
Anyway, right off the bat this is obviously a scam but I do not want to miss this chance to discover his MO (and to just plain ol F with him) I fully pretended to incompetently follow his directions step-by-step. First, he asks you to identify the type of machine you're on "sir, what button is next to ctrl?" he asks. I said "a little flag picture" so he gets me to Window-R, msconfig > services and relay back to him how many windows services are stopped. I said "oh about 10", and he begins the real deception: tells me that viruses and malware have disabled these services (lol newsflash, that was me) and that they need to help me and fix my computer. Continuing to play along, he tells me to Window-R and enter an URL from there. I pretend to do it, and of course, the url is for his website, showmypc, and he tells me to click on a big yellow box that would enable remote access. Of course, the remote access/help and support services are all disabled on my machine, but I'm still not even going ot resolve that url.
This is where I change his game a little bit. I asked him point blank "Excuse me, sir, but do you think that I am a stupid man?" he said "excuse me?". I call him out on trying to remote into my machine. He insists that they need access to fix these 'problems', which I promptly tell him "these microsoft services have nothing to do with viruses/malware", yet still he insists. I then tell him that my installation of Windows is over 7 years old and that's not by accident, and continue to tell him that I just 'cooperated' to see what his MO is and that he should feel overwheming shame for trying to scam people into destroying their computer, STILL not understanding that I have a total grast on this situation. He bellows one last time "sir, are you a technician" to which I reply "YES!!!!" -- instantly the line goes dead.
Has anyone else here been solicited by these jerks???