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Postby Magnum-Truth » Mon Sep 02, 2013 12:43 am

I just got a call from the friendly folks at Microsoft. Some wonderful Indian gal giving me a heads up on a virus infection that is spreading around the area where I live and an offer to check & fix my computer for me.

Thank god for all these wonderful watch dogs, especially the ones that will take the time to give you a personal phone call to let you know about all the bad, bad, bad, things on the internet.

Stupid Cunt, no one is going to call you from Microsoft and offer to fix your computer over the phone.

If I had to guess this is the "exact" same person who called. Watch how she tries to fool this (willing and knowing) person into screwing up his computer by showing him "perfectly normal" things that take place in the background and making him believe there is something wrong that only she and her team can fix. I love how she directed him to the "event viewer" first to show him all the errors. There will always be errors and warnings there. I love it next when she tells him that the files in "prefetch" folder are all infections / hacking files. Followed up by a trip to the configuration panel to show him with his own eyes (as she put it) all the "services" that were not running that only a Microsoft tech could get going again. Actually a pretty good scam set up for anyone who does not know better. And such a deal at $299.00 [:)]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a_edowfgl8

I heard about this scam before but never actually got a call from anyone. The video is long and rather boring but watch what happens at the end when the scammers figure out there won't be any money. Wonder if there is any chance she is related to "Rachel from Cardholder Services'.
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Postby wherewereuin82 » Mon Sep 02, 2013 12:27 pm

[quote]Originally posted by Magnum-Truth
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Stupid Cunt
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Lost me, right there.
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Postby TragicMagic » Mon Sep 02, 2013 12:49 pm

This has been going on for years. They are STILL trying this one?!

Fuck me; they must actually catch a fair amount of old and / or stupid people with this one to warrant keeping this one going for so long...
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Postby Magnum-Truth » Mon Sep 02, 2013 1:11 pm

At $300.00 dollars per successful scam per day it turns into a fairly tidy sum of cash at the end of the week.

I have to believe they must be able to get at least one person a day. If they can get a few extras and end up fooling ten people out of the millions of people that own computers in a week it's $3000.00 dollars ... not a bad pay check.

Maybe I'll get lucky and Miss Cleo will call me next week.
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Postby Frank_Chickens » Tue Sep 03, 2013 9:15 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by TragicMagic[/i]
<br>This has been going on for years. They are STILL trying this one?!

Fuck me; they must actually catch a fair amount of old and / or stupid people with this one to warrant keeping this one going for so long...
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Don't forget that the 419 scam is a billion dollar a year industry.
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Postby stranded » Tue Oct 29, 2013 3:45 pm

This is the response I got when I hung up on the Stupid Cunt.....lol's

http://youtu.be/SmGXeV7ONGQ
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Postby wherewereuin82 » Tue Oct 29, 2013 9:11 pm

[quote][i]Originally posted by stranded[/i]
<br>This is the response I got when I hung up on the Stupid Cunt.....lol's

http://youtu.be/SmGXeV7ONGQ
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Awesome!
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Postby Magnum-Truth » Sun Nov 03, 2013 2:49 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B11WNXR6o8

@ about 2:20 into the video [:D]
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