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    so recently we have been getting a lot of calls from "your windows service center" saying that "viruses are downloading themselves onto my hard drive." They are fighting them off, but they need me to download a program to block them or "all of my personal banking informations could be stolen by the malicious viruses on my hard drive."

    Obviously they want me to download a rat of some sort, but this time I decided to play with them a bit first.

    Me: I need to go turn on my computer, 1 sec.
    Them: Ok this is very important, hurry.
    Me10 min later) My computer won't turn on.
    Them: This is very bad, the virus may have infected your power supply configuration.(dafuq?)
    Me: So how can I turn it on?
    Them: Unplug your computer and wait for a bit then plug it back in.
    Me: Ok.
    Me: (15 min later) Ok so it is on now.
    Them: ok, so go to your local disk, ok? now go to windows, now, inf, then esent folder.
    Them: now there is a file called esentprf.hxx, this is the malicious file.
    Me: I can't find it.
    Them: are you in your local disk?
    Me: yes
    Them: are you in your windows folder?
    Me: no. I can't find it.
    Them: What are your folders called that you see?
    Me:bin, boot, cdrom, dev, etc, home, lib, media, root, usr, and other stuff, but no windows.
    Them: ok the virus has hidden itself, you need to download the patch to block the virus.
    Me: ok:
    *Downloads nothing*
    Me: It won't work, Do i need windows? my computer is linux
    *They hang up*


    well, that was a good use of 30 minutes lol

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    hahha, my nan gets calls saying her computer is giving off viruses... she doesn't even have a computer or internet :')

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    God they are f-in persistant.

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    I knew that was coming haha!

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    haha hilarious!!

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    This is just too funny.

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    I lost it at "bin, boot, cdrom, dev, etc"

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    Quote Originally Posted by zertunami View Post
    I lost it at "bin, boot, cdrom, dev, etc"
    linux home folder.

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    The sad thing is is that this phone scam was recently on the news where I live and that people still must be getting tricked or else they'd have stopped calling. Also: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10..._scam_crushed/ (not really crushed)

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    Omg, a kid in my class at school basically did the same thing as you last weekend. Pretty funny lol.
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    How about those scams where people go out and sell a "Winning" lottery ticket to another person because they can't claim it.

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    Gave me a giggle. Nice one mate.

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    I should really record one, anyone know if that's legal in Canada?

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    Why wouldn't it be? I don't get calls like that round here. This made me laugh though.
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    Just googled, it is legal as long as one partcipant knows. Now I wonder how I could record it with reasonable quality...

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    Them: This is very bad, the virus may have infected your power supply configuration.(dafuq?)
    ... Are they for real?

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Killer View Post
    linux home folder.
    s/home/root

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    Quote Originally Posted by [J]ustin View Post
    ... Are they for real?
    Yes, I was a little surprised that they said that, perhaps hoping that I new nothing about computers and trying to scare me lol...

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    Quote Originally Posted by nokkasiili View Post
    s/home/root
    shh close enough

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    Lol next time be like I removed the file, thanks my computer is working. See what they say because they know the file is fake :P




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    They should get more fluent english speakers if they want a successful scam.. Half the time I can't even hear what they're saying

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    HA. xD Nice I never even heard of people calling the house to say you're computer is broken. It seems like alot more effort that hiding it in a file.

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    lol had a scammer try meet up with me on skype, they tried to phish me, i pretended like i was a noob as "was scared that they would get my IP" when they said you cant do anything with an Ip, looked up theirs, and told them where they lived, quite funny as they were 13 year old kids. then i did something to them Since its not strictly legal i shall not enclose what(but involves piggybacking a botnet and make someone's internet die)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Enslaved View Post
    Since its not strictly legal i shall not enclose what(but involves piggybacking a botnet and make someone's internet die)
    Well what did you do, bigger hint plox?

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