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Microsoft scam still going

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  • #102
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Hyzepher wrote: »
    methinks LuckyDude is trolling

    Mod: It's against the After Hours charter to accuse other users of trolling. Please read the charter.


  • #103
    Mesrine65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,969 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    Play this to really piss them off :D



  • #104
    Day Lewin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,779 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    I located a "How to start your computer in Windows" little video on YouTube, and bookmarked it.

    It is in Urdu, a language I do not speak; but I am very patient with foreigners.

    So now whenever I get one of those calls I whistle up my YouTube off the Bookmarks list, and lay the phone handpiece down beside the speakers. Then I make a cup of tea.

    They're always gone when I get back. I hope they learned something. :-)

    PS I offer it here in the pious hope that it may solve computer problems for all your unwanted callers.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZth1uNhcxs


  • #105
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,638 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    vienne86 wrote: »
    Just realised I haven't had these guys since I changed my phone for Eircom to UPC. The whistle is beside the new phone, but I have actually enjoyed stringing them along more than blasting their eardrums. Somebody must fall for them, as otherwise they would have stopped years ago.

    the whistle wouldnt do you much good. modern telephone systems have volume limiters.


  • #106
    Sinister Kid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,503 ✭✭✭Sinister Kid


    Just got a call on my shops landline from William in Microsoft... Eh, No thanks... then he hangs up! Scam still going on :rolleyes:


  • #107
    Ally Dick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,741 ✭✭✭✭Ally Dick


    It's a bit like spam email. I'd say if they spam a million email accounts, a handful of idiots will engage with them and send them on money. The same with the Microsoft windows scam. My father fell for it, but he claims now that he was only dragging it out to see how far they would go. When they asked him for payment, he told them that his sons looked after all that, and they hung up. Still, they managed to get to the stage of having the remote access ! I fixed that up though not long after


  • #108
    aphex™
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭aphex™


    A lady in a company I worked for fell for it, she said she thought it was IT ringing her up to tell her there was something wrong with her corporate laptop while working from home.


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