New microsoft scammer

Bt Doctur

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This is how dumb these people are. Today I got a call from my own phone number on my own phone. Now you can never call your own phone from your phone because you will always get a busy signal.
Call warns of a bad ip and there going to fix it for you from microsoft.
Once I ask about what number there calling from, instant hang up.
The wonders of modern phone technology
 
These are the best. I love to test their patience to see how long they will stay on the call. "Say what now...you want me to find a cursor?....no one is this house curses". When I know they are at their whits end I love to say "you know i'm f'ing with you right?"

Little do they know we listened to the "The Jerky Boys" all through college.
 
At least you're not as dumb as the broad on TV last night. She got a call from a man in Nigeria (he told her that!) who said her Social Security number had been compromised and to guarantee that her future benefits were not endangered she had to wire him the total of her savings account.

She did, and now she's crying about the lost $150,000.

Ya just can't fix STOOPID!
 
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I received the social security phone call earlier this week... I called the number back and just totally ran the guy in circles for several minutes, it was funny, I laughed and then ate a zebra...
 
This is how dumb these people are. Today I got a call from my own phone number on my own phone. Now you can never call your own phone from your phone because you will always get a busy signal.
Call warns of a bad ip and there going to fix it for you from microsoft.
Once I ask about what number there calling from, instant hang up.
The wonders of modern phone technology
I call my house from my garage on occasion, same phone number. The first time the phone scammers used my own number I was home alone. I never answer the phone unless I know the number, when I saw my own number I thought of the 'he's in the house movies' and maybe someone was F'ning with me. I looked out the window to the garage to see if something was going on and then realized it was a scam caller.:p
 
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I got that similar call last summer. I played along and sounded like I had no clue about computers. I put them on speaker phone so my wife could listen along.

Once I let them believe I was really concerned, I told them I would get my laptop right away and come right back. I went to get a cookie baking sheet from the cupboard. Then got back on the phone and said I had it in my hand and would smash it right away. The guy said, no no no, we can help you remove the virus. I said I would smash it myself and I threw the sheet on the floor and banged it around a bit. Then I said to the guy that I had smashed the virus and asked what do do next. Pause... then click.

My wife was laughing and said I was a goof.
 
One mistake I made that you should never do with the on-line email spam. I should have known better, but I was starting to get a bit more spam on my home email. They were the typical Apple or Bank logo stuff saying they had an offer or similar. So, stupidly, I clicked on one with the idea I could some how have some fun with them. BAD IDEA. AS soon as you click on one, you get taken to a website, but you have also validated that it is a live email address attached to an idiot that would click on an obvious spam email. I am sure in the spam world, my personal email was like a wounded fish in a shark tank.

So I am now in the process of changing email address over to a gmail account (hopefully they have better spam filtering than our ISP provider I was using). What a nightmare to change the email address because virtually every web site, on line retailer, subscription service, streaming, etc etc all use your email address.
 
yep. I'm a Systems Security Engineer (CISSP certified). Usually I ignore these calls but a couple of times I played along. The one time I pretended to be at my computer following along then after awhile played dumb and told him my screen said Linux. He hung up. The other time I pretended to play along and after about 15 minutes told him my job title. He asked me what I just said so I repeated it and he hung up...lol

And yes, never click on any links. I don't even click the 'unsubscribe' links on unsolicited emails. Just delete and ignore them
 
It may sound fun to try and screw with these people, but you might be unwilling giving them information that they will use later. For example, you are possibly confirming the email address or phone number is valid and your gender (by your voice). They use that to take over your email account - ie social engineering a phone call to the your email provider, especially if it is the cable company who's security is not going to be up to par with google, the banks and financial companies. Once they are in your email they can put forwards on your email and maybe even your phone number. Once they are in your email, it's pretty easy to figure out where you bank, invest etc, they then start trying to take over those accounts - remember now all the reset emails and alerts are going to them! Using Gmail and enabling their security features and enabling multi factor authentication definitely helps. The weak point in a lot of systems security seems to be the lost password process and MFA systems that allow email and phone calls as a delivery method instead of an app installed on a phone (ie Google Authenticator). The way email is used as the login and communication method for so may online accounts, your email account security is as important as your bank account security. The cable providers are terrible, they have nothing even approaching the security that say Google uses.

For me it's just not work the risk - once something like your bank account is compromised, you have a huge mess on your hands. All it takes is one thing, an old password you forgot to change or used in multiple places and now it is compromised. Even if you have not been "hacked" the likely hood that some of your PII information has been compromised is very high - most people's information has been part of at least one breach, it just hasn't been used yet - Equifax took care of that for most of us.
 
We no longer use a house phone because of the barrage of telemarketing calls that came through on it.
Things were getting out of control on the cell phone the last couple of years too.
We have iPhones. A few months ago Apple had a software update and one of the new features was the ability to partially block all calls from numbers that aren’t in my “Contacts” list.
Calls from unknown numbers are sent directly to voicemail and my phone doesn’t ring.
If the caller chooses to leave a voicemail they can. Very few telemarketers leave voicemails.
I check my voicemails frequently so any legitimate ones get a quick response.
It works great.
No more telemarketers annoying me.
Settings > Phone> scroll down to “Silence Unknown Calls” and switch the feature on.
 

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