OT: Repeated calls

[Robert Baer]

"Microsoft Refund Department please".
Do not hang up.
You have paid for your computer technical support a few months ago.
We are calling because we have been ordered to refund your money as
the company has been ordered to close.
Please call our toll free number (WEA)RES-HITS to get your refund.

 

[John S]

On 8/7/2019 10:20 PM, Robert Baer wrote:

  "Microsoft Refund Department please".
  Do not hang up.
  You have paid for your computer technical support a few months ago.
  We are calling because we have been ordered to refund your money as
the company has been ordered to close.
  Please call our toll free number (WEA)RES-HITS to get your refund.

It is a popular scam from India. They want to connect to your computer
and steal your money. Block the number or at least disregard it.

 

[John S]

On 8/7/2019 10:20 PM, Robert Baer wrote:

  "Microsoft Refund Department please".
  Do not hang up.
  You have paid for your computer technical support a few months ago.
  We are calling because we have been ordered to refund your money as
the company has been ordered to close.
  Please call our toll free number (WEA)RES-HITS to get your refund.

It is a popular scam from India. They want to connect to your computer
and steal your money. Block the number or at least disregard it.

 

[Tom Del Rosso]

Robert Baer wrote:

"Microsoft Refund Department please".
Do not hang up.
You have paid for your computer technical support a few months ago.
We are calling because we have been ordered to refund your money as
the company has been ordered to close.
Please call our toll free number (WEA)RES-HITS to get your refund.

Why don't you put Linux on an older PC and use it to transition away
from Windows?

 

[Jon Elson]

On Wed, 07 Aug 2019 22:56:32 -0400, Tom Del Rosso wrote:

Robert Baer wrote:
"Microsoft Refund Department please".
Do not hang up.
You have paid for your computer technical support a few months ago.
We are calling because we have been ordered to refund your money as
the company has been ordered to close.
Please call our toll free number (WEA)RES-HITS to get your refund.

Why don't you put Linux on an older PC and use it to transition away
from Windows?

Works for ME! I can gladly tell these idiots that I don't have any
Windows computer on the premises. They just sort of sputter.

Jon

 

[Rick C]

On Thursday, August 8, 2019 at 3:11:47 PM UTC-4, amdx wrote:

On 8/8/2019 1:43 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
On Wed, 07 Aug 2019 22:56:32 -0400, Tom Del Rosso wrote:

Robert Baer wrote:
"Microsoft Refund Department please".
Do not hang up.
You have paid for your computer technical support a few months ago..
We are calling because we have been ordered to refund your money as
the company has been ordered to close.
Please call our toll free number (WEA)RES-HITS to get your refund.

Why don't you put Linux on an older PC and use it to transition away
from Windows?

Works for ME! I can gladly tell these idiots that I don't have any
Windows computer on the premises. They just sort of sputter.

Jon


I haven't got the we see a problem with your computer call for a long
time. Probably because I dropped my landline.
The last time I did, I acted so happy because as I told them, "I was
having computer problems." And proceeded to drag them through long
imaginary reboots and that didn't work, let me reboot again. After about
30 minutes, I just politely said, " Does your mother now she raised an
asshole?"
The response was, "What?" I repeated it, and then heard click.
Ya, I wasted my time also, but it was fun.

Mikek

Spam robo-calls could be virtually eliminated simply by having a simple protocol on the phone being rung. I'm thinking cell phones of course. Asking friends or business associates to press a button is a PITA for the caller as they likely are not using a dial pad, but got your number from the contacts in their phone. So something spoken might do the job. Ask for the time? Ask them for their phone number? But then I guess the spammers will start using technology to listen and appropriately respond. I guess it would still end up a cat and mouse thing.

Still, an app that would do this would raise the bar enough to be useful for some amount of time. One useful aspect would be eliminating the totally legal political robo-calls around election time. Are they allowed to do that to cell phones?

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[amdx]

On 8/8/2019 1:43 PM, Jon Elson wrote:

On Wed, 07 Aug 2019 22:56:32 -0400, Tom Del Rosso wrote:

Robert Baer wrote:
"Microsoft Refund Department please".
Do not hang up.
You have paid for your computer technical support a few months ago.
We are calling because we have been ordered to refund your money as
the company has been ordered to close.
Please call our toll free number (WEA)RES-HITS to get your refund.

Why don't you put Linux on an older PC and use it to transition away
from Windows?

Works for ME! I can gladly tell these idiots that I don't have any
Windows computer on the premises. They just sort of sputter.

Jon

I haven't got the we see a problem with your computer call for a long
time. Probably because I dropped my landline.
The last time I did, I acted so happy because as I told them, "I was
having computer problems." And proceeded to drag them through long
imaginary reboots and that didn't work, let me reboot again. After about
30 minutes, I just politely said, " Does your mother now she raised an
asshole?"
The response was, "What?" I repeated it, and then heard click.
Ya, I wasted my time also, but it was fun.

Mikek

 

[Mike]

In article <3oOdnXHrxsX28NHAnZ2dnUU7-VGdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> wrote:

Why don't you put Linux on an older PC and use it to transition away
from Windows?

Works for ME! I can gladly tell these idiots that I don't have any
Windows computer on the premises. They just sort of sputter.

I *wish* I got a "sort of sputter" from these guys, far more likely to
get some very irrational responses to the arrogant-yet-stupid "Microsoft"
tech guys ...

I tell them I don't have a Windows computer, yet :-

"On what authority can you say that?" -- er, the fact that I *know*
I don't have one?

"You must have a Windows computer as it is registered in your
name at this address!" -- no it isn't, the name and address you have
scraped from a phone book.

"You must be running a Windows computer, it is sending us reports
of the viruses and malware ..."

etc.

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[Tim Williams]

"Rick C" <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:27b71376-5d56-41bc-9e35-fe0e7d219dbc@googlegroups.com...

Still, an app that would do this would raise the bar enough to be useful
for some amount of time. One useful aspect would be eliminating the
totally legal political robo-calls around election time. Are they allowed
to do that to cell phones?

Get a smart phone old man. :^) There's half a dozen apps that do exactly
that.

Tim

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[Rick C]

On Thursday, August 8, 2019 at 4:11:09 PM UTC-4, Tim Williams wrote:

"Rick C" <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:27b71376-5d56-41bc-9e35-fe0e7d219dbc@googlegroups.com...
Still, an app that would do this would raise the bar enough to be useful
for some amount of time. One useful aspect would be eliminating the
totally legal political robo-calls around election time. Are they allowed
to do that to cell phones?


Get a smart phone old man. :^) There's half a dozen apps that do exactly
that.

I've looked and there are no apps that work like this. I expect the call to be answered without ringing and only ring once the caller has gotten through the screen.

The apps I found let YOU do the screening. I wan my phone to never ring until a caller is verified.

Google has one that is pretty good though. You can press the "screen" button and it asks who the person is I think. You have choices for the response such as "I didn't get that, can you repeat it?" But it still requires me to answer the damn phone.

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[Robert Baer]

Robert Baer wrote:

  "Microsoft Refund Department please".
  Do not hang up.
  You have paid for your computer technical support a few months ago.
  We are calling because we have been ordered to refund your money as
the company has been ordered to close.
  Please call our toll free number (WEA)RES-HITS to get your refund.
* NOTE: -------------------------------^^^-^^^-^^^^ (we are shits)

 

[Piotr Wyderski]

Robert Baer wrote:

  "Microsoft Refund Department please".
  Do not hang up.
  You have paid for your computer technical support a few months ago.
  We are calling because we have been ordered to refund your money as
the company has been ordered to close.
  Please call our toll free number (WEA)RES-HITS to get your refund.

Hello, this is Lenny!

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

Best regards, Piotr

 

[Cursitor Doom]

On Thu, 08 Aug 2019 13:43:55 -0500, Jon Elson wrote:

Works for ME! I can gladly tell these idiots that I don't have any
Windows computer on the premises.

Better yet, tell 'em *nothing* at all. Safest course of action.




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[Robert Baer]

Piotr Wyderski wrote:

Robert Baer wrote:

   "Microsoft Refund Department please".
   Do not hang up.
   You have paid for your computer technical support a few months ago.
   We are calling because we have been ordered to refund your money as
the company has been ordered to close.
   Please call our toll free number (WEA)RES-HITS to get your refund.


Hello, this is Lenny!

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

    Best regards, Piotr

Not too bad.
Recordings of an old guy that is a few cards short of a full deck
helps the illusion.