Windows Support Call

[DADoES]

 
I got one of those fake Windows Support Center calls a few minutes ago.  First time that I can recall.  Told him I don't have a Windows computer, heard him saying "OK" as I hung up.

MS has pushed out a WinXP "update" to advise XP support is ending as of 4/18/2014.

Bah.

 

[kb0nes]

I love those calls, I have got two of them. If I have the time I toy with them a little. If you search Youtube for Windows Support Scam etc, there are videos people have made of how long they could keep the caller on the phone.

I saw the Win XP End-of-life "Upgrade" the other day. Even though I am a bit of a PC "bottom feeder" and I used to think XP was the bees-knees. I'm pretty happy to let go of XP at this point. Only XP stuff I work on today are friends computers, I have eliminated it from all my stuff.

Now try to force me onto Win 8 and I'll be pretty PO'ed!!

 

[launderess]

We Had One Eariler This Week As Well

Caller got the rough side of my tongue I can tell you that.

Ma'am I'm calling from Windows about your computer he said.

"Windows" does not exist as a company, Microsoft does I said. Furthermore they do not have our personal information.

Yes, we do he said.

Really? I said, so what is our name and so forth?

In short order told the man he was out of order and to get on his bike, then slammed the receiver down.

Cannot imagine how many poor souls fall victim to these idiots.

 

[davey7]

then slammed the receiver down.

Hoi Polloi!

 

[washer111]

We've been getting those calls here in Australia for several years now. 

 

Except, these ones seem to know your surname and realise that they are from Microsoft, not "Windows." (Lol). 

 

Still, they haven't rung since mid last year after several days of them ringing. I decided I would pull a dirty trick and try and send a loud tone down their line, courtesy of Audacity. 

To be honest, I THINK the microphone on the handset actually entered some sort of proaction loop, since I kept hearing the person calling out the surname, "Are you there Mr. X? Hello?" So I couldn't send my 10K Hz tone down the line to them... Such a shame. 

I couldn't believe when they hung up, redialled us and entered the same old thing again! IDIOTS!

 

Following that, I scripted my response to their questions in Text-Edit on my Macbook. I was planning on using Alex (The built in voice) to narrate it for me, and make all the funny sounds I added in there of me plugging the computer together and the computer "booting up" (and subsequently crashing). 

 

[petek]

Hanging up is no fun.

I toy with them as well. Make them work for it. Just go along pretending you're doing everything they say albeit slowly to make it seem you're incompetent. Then say nothings happening,, they'll get you to repeat all over again, and again as you sit there doing nothing. LOL Then to really get them ask one of them to come over to your house and help and maybe have a few drinks because you think he sounds sexy.

 

[iheartmaytag]

My Mom has been getting those about once a month or so

Some guy with a very hard to understand accent tells her that her computer has a bad virus and do  . . . she hangs up.

 

[wayupnorth]

I havnt got one of those yet. Just 2 daily to lower my credit card interest. So far, none of that crap on the cell, just landline, thankfully. I wait and see if they leave a message, delite it. But every call is from a different number throughout the US. I gave up toying with someone from a foreign country that could not speak english, got better things to do.