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RELEASE
13-12-2011, 01:22 PM
Bit of a warning to those that get the same call I did.
Sounded way to suss to be true but played along partly to see where it was going to go.

Indian guy calls saying he is from microsoft and I have some expired certificates on my machine that he can help me with resolving.
Asks you to run cmd prompt and bring up basically the CLSID. He reads it to you even tho he can't see it to confirm that they are legit and it's your pc that's sending them the message that it has expired certificates.

Then gets you to log in to logmein123 while a "technician" called Shaun Common takes over to guide you through the process of what he is going to do.
He does the whole "I'll show you all the errors that it's causing " bla bla

He wouldn't give me his Microsoft id or reference number for the call so as soon as he got to the whole go to logmein123 and enter this code I hung up.
shifted
13-12-2011, 01:26 PM
Sounds similar to the scams they were running before.
DanWA
13-12-2011, 01:28 PM
super common, tell them you got a mac, nothing works on gay apple products.
INSINR8R
13-12-2011, 01:36 PM
Sounds legit.
-Luke-
13-12-2011, 02:18 PM
Tell them you dont have a computer, confuses the fuck out of them.
V70R
13-12-2011, 02:25 PM
Or tell them you're using the internet from your smartphone.
Macca
13-12-2011, 02:33 PM
i just tell them cmd is not working on my commodore 64. more amusing when they try and "solve" that issue
brynj
13-12-2011, 02:39 PM
Run through whole process, then ask if you need to have your computer turned on.
disc0-dan
13-12-2011, 02:48 PM
They have the internet on computers now ?
Ryan1080
13-12-2011, 02:50 PM
Run through the whole process, thank them for their help, and mention that you're condsidering getting the internet perhaps next month...
dmwill
13-12-2011, 04:52 PM
Or tell them you're on a 33.6k dialup modem.

Working in IT - I have always wanted one of these calls just to see how long I can string them along for.
Mad_Aussie
13-12-2011, 04:53 PM
I work at an on-hold company.
We just put them on hold.
dmwill
13-12-2011, 04:54 PM
or...put something like goatse on the screen, then let them remote in.
RICEY
13-12-2011, 05:12 PM
Are indians incapable of getting real jobs?
Macca
13-12-2011, 05:24 PM
Are indians incapable of getting real jobs?

some do work for holden....................
urban
13-12-2011, 05:38 PM
Hi I.d like to order a large lamb korma with rice and a plain naan, how much to deliver?
RICEY
13-12-2011, 05:40 PM
some do work for holden....................

Working for Holden isnt a real job.
mattyb89
13-12-2011, 05:43 PM
Working for Holden isnt a real job. yer its a head fuck
duste
13-12-2011, 06:00 PM
Or tell them you're on a 33.6k dialup modem.

Working in IT - I have always wanted one of these calls just to see how long I can string them along for.

Did this one time. Had it right up to the point where he wanted me to give remote access. Politely told them to fuck off and hung up, then received a call a few seconds later with a "FUCK YOU MOTHERFUCKER" in a squeaky Indian voice hahahaha.
Bakerboy
13-12-2011, 06:29 PM
Bit of a warning to those that get the same call I did.
Sounded way to suss to be true but played along partly to see where it was going to go.

Indian guy calls saying he is from microsoft and I have some expired certificates on my machine that he can help me with resolving.
Asks you to run cmd prompt and bring up basically the CLSID. He reads it to you even tho he can't see it to confirm that they are legit and it's your pc that's sending them the message that it has expired certificates.

Then gets you to log in to logmein123 while a "technician" called Shaun Common takes over to guide you through the process of what he is going to do.
He does the whole "I'll show you all the errors that it's causing " bla bla

He wouldn't give me his Microsoft id or reference number for the call so as soon as he got to the whole go to logmein123 and enter this code I hung up.

You dont have that problem when your version of windows isnt a legal copy in the 1st place
Macca
13-12-2011, 07:14 PM
Working for Holden isnt a real job.

that was the point
RICEY
13-12-2011, 09:31 PM
that was the point

And yours is? lol
mr top hat
13-12-2011, 10:26 PM
i have a simple thing i use to waste their time...
ive got a virtual machine running for these phone calls so when they call and do the log me in thing i let them do wat they want then just restore back to the snapshot of the os before they called.

they make all kinds of threads like if you give me your CC number im gonna destroy your computer. say to them go for it.

i have so much fun with these guys lol