Windows Repair Tech

[tigerwoodKhorns]

I had a "Widnows Repair Tech" call me and let me know that my computer has a virus. I kept him on for a while, making him wait for me to get a pen, repeatidly reading back wrong numbers that he gave me, asking dumb questions, until he finally stated "Go to hell you muther______, you are wasting my time."

But here is the funny thing, he is upset because I am wasting his time? This thief is calling me to steal from me and is upset because I am wasting his time. Interestign concept.

Anyway, be aware of this, they try to get you to go to a remote desktop website to take control of your computer. They use a boiler-room and sound legit (until they start with the profanity). It also sounds like a miserable existance doing this for a living.

[CECAA850]

How do they get your phone number or is it just random?

[Mighty Favog]

Do you have a log of his ph#. []

[Daddy Dee]

way to go. wasting the time of the scammer! love it.

[skonopa]

way to go. wasting the time of the scammer! love it.

I've heard about this. I wonder if some of those bogus calls from some of those bogus numbers that I've been getting and ignoring. If I see a number on my caller ID that I don't recognize or is obviously a telemarketer, I don't bother to answer. If it is that important, they can leave a message on my machine and I'll call back if I deem it is worth it.

However, it is funny searching on YouTube (try something like "computer scammer gets owned") that some of these guys just drag it out, including one dude that did not even have a Windows machine (he was on a Mac). Funny as hell, especially when those low-lifes resort to cussing out the person they are trying to scam.

where the guy really screws with one of those morons. Yeah, "wasting thier time", I do love the irony there (like my time having to deal with those jackasses is also not valuable as well, probably more so because I actually make an honost living?)

[mustang guy]

Here are some telemarketer responses that can be fun:

Use a husky, dirty phone sex voice but ask normal questions about the proposed offer.

Is it a low interest rate? mmmmmI like low interest ratesreally low

Say you are hard of hearing and see how loud they will shout into the phone.

Allow the telemarketer to fully explain his offer. When he is finished explain that his company hired you to randomly spot check telemarketers on their performance. Tell him that he did a good job overall, but that he is a bit monotone and needs to fluctuate his tone of voice more to sound convincing. He also should pause longer between sentences, and more clearly pronounce the letter s. Tell him you wont report him if he repeats his speech to you with the appropriate corrections. Repeat.

Congratulations! Youre the 100th caller on the (insert local radio station) Sweet Vacation Giveaway Blast Marathon. Youve just won a pair of tickets to Negril, Jamaica and the use of Sean Pauls celebrity vacation house. Take down her address and send her all of your L.L.Bean catalogues for the rest of your life...after you use them as liner for your cats litter box.

Flirt.

Keep repeating, I knew you were going to say that

Stutter on a syllable of an obvious word in a sentence see how long it takes before he completes the phrase. When he does, get upset, and say That really hurts my feefee fee feefeelfee fee fee ad infinitum.

Pee on the phone while hes talking.

Every few minutes repeat, Youre going to have to bear with me, I have a slight short term memory loss problemwho is this again?

Repeat everything he says back to him. Do not say anything he didn't say first. It's annoying as hell.

[willland]

I had a "Widnows Repair Tech" call me and let me know that my computer has a virus. I kept him on for a while, making him wait for me to get a pen, repeatidly reading back wrong numbers that he gave me, asking dumb questions, until he finally stated "Go to hell you muther______, you are wasting my time."

About a year or so ago I had the same thing happen, but I got dooped. The "Microsoft Windows Tech Support" did convince me of the legitimacy of the issue and I "paid" for the virus to be purged. Funny thing was I had the gut feeling something was just not right. Even with the little voice telling me no don't do it, the "tech" was so convincing. He knew what model and year I bought my computer and just about everything else about it.

Needless to say, after allowing the "tech" to remotely operate my computer and "showed" me the "virus", I entered my credit card number to pay the "virus purging" fee of $499.99. We proceeded to "checkout" and the service bill read $499.99 only after clicking on "pay now". I immediately came to my senses and accused the "tech" of scamming me and they"assured" me that I just misread the "purging fee". With them still on them still on the line, I called my credit card company to put a fraud alert on my card. When the "tech" realized I had done that, he starting cursing me(broken English Indian accent)and said that if I want accessed to my computer, I must pay $300.00 to get it back. They had locked it out so I had no way of unlocking it. In reality, they were holding the "password" to unlock for ransom. I did not give in to their demands. I hung up after unplugging my computer.

Guess what, they called me right back to tell me that my wife was not at work but was spending "time" with another "boy". I laughed at them and said "by by".

I sent my computer to a very qualified computer IT guy and for the life of him, he could not crack the code, he felt defeated. He said that these scammers are good. He then sold me one of his home built computers and I am using it as of this moment. The old Dell XPS400 rests comfortably under my desk.

These scammers were only successful in disrupting my life briefly with no lasting harm to my credit or anything else.

It also sounds like a miserable existance doing this for a living.

I did call them out on their wonderful occupation contributing good things to society.

Lesson learned.[:@] [:$][]

Bill

[jason str]

I had a "Widnows Repair Tech" call me and let me know that my computer has a virus. I kept him on for a while, making him wait for me to get a pen, repeatidly reading back wrong numbers that he gave me, asking dumb questions, until he finally stated "Go to hell you muther______, you are wasting my time."

About a year or so ago I had the same thing happen, but I got dooped. The "Microsoft Windows Tech Support" did convince me of the legitimacy of the issue and I "paid" for the virus to be purged. Funny thing was I had the gut feeling something was just not right. Even with the little voice telling me no don't do it, the "tech" was so convincing. He knew what model and year I bought my computer and just about everything else about it.

Needless to say, after allowing the "tech" to remotely operate my computer and "showed" me the "virus", I entered my credit card number to pay the "virus purging" fee of $499.99. We proceeded to "checkout" and the service bill read $499.99 only after clicking on "pay now". I immediately came to my senses and accused the "tech" of scamming me and they"assured" me that I just misread the "purging fee". With them still on them still on the line, I called my credit card company to put a fraud alert on my card. When the "tech" realized I had done that, he starting cursing me(broken English Indian accent)and said that if I want accessed to my computer, I must pay $300.00 to get it back. They had locked it out so I had no way of unlocking it. In reality, they were holding the "password" to unlock for ransom. I did not give in to their demands. I hung up after unplugging my computer.

Guess what, they called me right back to tell me that my wife was not at work but was spending "time" with another "boy". I laughed at them and said "by by".

I sent my computer to a very qualified computer IT guy and for the life of him, he could not crack the code, he felt defeated. He said that these scammers are good. He then sold me one of his home built computers and I am using it as of this moment. The old Dell XPS400 rests comfortably under my desk.

These scammers were only successful in disrupting my life briefly with no lasting harm to my credit or anything else.

It also sounds like a miserable existance doing this for a living.

I did call them out on their wonderful occupation contributing good things to society.

Lesson learned.

Bill

Resetting your bios will clear any password stored for startup.

Remove the mainboard battery and ground the jumper, this will reset any password needed for startup.

For $499.99 + tax i will guide you through this operation. []

[willland]

Resetting your bios will clear any password stored for startup.

Remove the mainboard battery and ground the jumper, this will reset any password needed for startup.

For $499.99 + tax i will guide you through this operation.

In theory that is very true, but these "techs" were very good. Luckily I never stored any financial stuff on this computer or must keep photos. My buddy sold me the "new" computer for $150.00.

Bill

[tigerwoodKhorns]

Sorry that they got you. They are pretty sophisticated and do sound legit (down tro the phone room and indian "technician").

This will make you feel better. If you want to see some real pros give the scammers a hard time, check out Forum 419 eater.com. They target scammers who send them emails and make them jump through hoops, humiliate them, and worse. All with a promise that the scammer is about to get a nice payoff, usually from a church or other charity (that the scammer thinks they are going to steal from).

Here is a small sample of some photos:

http://forum.419eater.com/forum/album_showpage.php?pic_id=457&mode=prev#TopPic

http://forum.419eater.com/forum/album_showpage.php?pic_id=453&mode=prev#TopPic

http://forum.419eater.com/forum/album_showpage.php?pic_id=483

http://forum.419eater.com/forum/album_showpage.php?pic_id=448&mode=prev#TopPic

[Jeff Matthews]

LOL! I remember seeing the 419Baiter stuff a handful of years back. I decided it was time for some humor, so I joined the game. Right now, I have a Captain Lawrence who is going to send me $16. million from his share of an oil field recovery in Afghanistan. My cut, naturally, is 30%.

I am starting off nice and somewhat cooperative. Of course, I am retired and no longer drive, so it will take me some time to locate my old driver's license.

You know how they are. He responds with letting me skip the ID and just get him an address and phone number. I gave him a fake address in Phoenix and ignored the phone number.

This is going to be fun when his sock-puppet carrier confirms they are ready to ship but need the parcel delivery fee. This is when I say I am tight on funds and have a close friend, a wealthy minister whose grand-daddy made a killing in the oil and gas industry some years back. I will ask my scammer's permission to cut my friend in on the deal so that I can get the parcel fee together.

Then, my wealthy sock-puppet is going to go religious and make my scammer and all his buddies jump through some hoops to validate they are good Mormons, etc.

[Mighty Favog]

Tell him you need help with the TabWorks OS on your system. Or even the IBM punch card reader.

[tigerwoodKhorns]

LOL! I remember seeing the 419Baiter stuff a handful of years back. I decided it was time for some humor, so I joined the game. Right now, I have a Captain Lawrence who is going to send me $16. million from his share of an oil field recovery in Afghanistan. My cut, naturally, is 30%.

I am starting off nice and somewhat cooperative. Of course, I am retired and no longer drive, so it will take me some time to locate my old driver's license.

You know how they are. He responds with letting me skip the ID and just get him an address and phone number. I gave him a fake address in Phoenix and ignored the phone number.

This is going to be fun when his sock-puppet carrier confirms they are ready to ship but need the parcel delivery fee. This is when I say I am tight on funds and have a close friend, a wealthy minister whose grand-daddy made a killing in the oil and gas industry some years back. I will ask my scammer's permission to cut my friend in on the deal so that I can get the parcel fee together.

Then, my wealthy sock-puppet is going to go religious and make my scammer and all his buddies jump through some hoops to validate they are good Mormons, etc.

Do you have a link to your thread?

[Jeff Matthews]

http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=236517&sid=71b111c69d947b0998289a2fddd92858

I'm back from the weekend break, and the package has not arrived. []

[Taz]

I like to tell then to please hold on for a minute, then hold phone close to the toilet while taking a leak, flush the toilet. Then say well all done, good bye ...................................................................................Taz []

[Islander]

Those scammers seem to call people at random, but if you've answered their call once, you're possibly on a list of active numbers, so you may get more calls in the future.

Crooks can be more tricky than you would expect. Last year, an elderly relative of mine wanted to visit the Norton antivirus site to renew her subscription, but the Google search turned up several pages, and she clicked on a counterfeit site by mistake. She told me it looked totally legit. The crook knew he had a live one right away, and asked for remote access to her machine.

When he was done messing it up, he asked for nearly $400 to fix the "pre-existing problem". She paid by credit card, he hung up, and she was left with an inoperative PC. She didn't tell me about it for nearly a month, and by then the bank was refusing to refund her money, since she had paid it voluntarily, scam or not. Her son-in-law has some computer expertise and visited soon after. It took him two hours of determined work to find and remove all the malware.

The "Windows repair tech" crooks are relatively sophisticated. They also call themselves "Windows-Support", along with a few other names. One time, I asked the guy for more info and was given their phone number and website address. The page looked pretty authentic, and I was actually a little impressed.

A few months ago, I got a call telling me I'd been reported for distributing terrorist info and would be cut off from the Net. I started to laugh, and the crook got angry. "Why are you laughing? This is the government!" He claimed to be working for "CCIR", the "Canadian Cyber-Intelligence Something-or-other". I told him I was well aware he was a crook, and I don't deal with crooks, but I'd be reporting him. He called me a "bloody Canadian bastard", and hung up. EDIT: the censored word in that last sentence refers to a person whose parents are not married.

Right after that, I did a search and found the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (Wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Anti-Fraud_Centre) and did report it. They told me it was a new scam, but they were aware of it and appreciated my reporting it. The service rep told these crooks also tell people they've been reported for receiving or distributing child porn. With whatever story they tell, they say you'll be cut off from the Net, and it will cost $100 or some other sum to be re-connected. Obviously, they have no way to do that, but some gullible (or maybe guilty-feeling) people will pay the money, so they keep on calling us.

The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre lists fraud types on this page: http://www.antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca/english/recognizeit.html

This page shows the most recent frauds. Some were completely new to me.

http://www.antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca/english/home.html

You can report frauds on this page: http://www.antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca/english/reportit_howtoreportfraud.html

Since most of the crooks are transnational, reporting to a Canadian Government site like this is helpful, even if you don't live in Canada. The CAFC gathers information and shares it with Canadian and American law enforcement agencies. When I called, it took a bit of time to get through, but the service rep was friendly and helpful. She thanked me for the report, and told me that if my relative had reported getting scammed shortly after it happened, and not months later, the agency could have informed my relative's bank of their duty to refund a payment made for something that is not delivered, i.e. a fraud.

I wish I'd known that much sooner, and been able to get my relative's money back.

I bookmarked the site, so now when I get one of those calls, I note everything I can, then just click on the CAFC site and send an email description of the fraud call, which takes only a few minutes of my time.

A week or two after I got that call from "CCIR", I got another one, and asked him lots of questions about his location and the like, telling him I was gathering info for his criminal charges, and the guy got more and more nervous, before hanging up suddenly.

When the next call showing the same number came, less than a week later, I just said "This call has been transferred automatically to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre. How may I direct your call?" I heard only the sound of the phone being quickly hung up, and those particular crooks have not called me since.

That's a small victory, but it's a step in the right direction.

I still get the "free vacation" and the "low-interest credit card" robo-calls, but they're less annoying than hearing from a crook live on my phone.