"Microsoft certified" scammer

[MoonlightSylv]

I got one of those ads that show a number and say the following: "YOUR COMPUTER HAS A SPYWARE VIRUS NETWORK PROBLEM!!!11!1!1!!!11! CALL NUMBER TO FIX!!1!!!!!" So I set up a Windows Vista VM and I played along with it. After they connected to the VM I asked her why she scammed people, she got mad and told me I have no life and opened up Hurr-durr.com (which is a browser trap, don't go to it) I told her it was a VM and she had no idea what that was so I hung up and closed the VM.

[dalekphalm]

28 minutes ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

I got one of those ads that show a number and say the following: "YOUR COMPUTER HAS A SPYWARE VIRUS NETWORK PROBLEM!!!11!1!1!!!11! CALL NUMBER TO FIX!!1!!!!!" So I set up a Windows Vista VM and I played along with it. After they connected to the VM I asked her why she scammed people, she got mad and told me I have no life and opened up Hurr-durr.com (which is a browser trap, don't go to it) I told her it was a VM and she had no idea what that was so I hung up and closed the VM.

I hope you obfuscated your IP info... a VM still uses the same WAN IP, unless you take measures to hide it (Proxies, VPN's, etc).

[samcool55]

Don't even google hurr-durr! Just did that and anti-virus went mad... I thought google was safe, turns out i was wrong.

[TetraSky]

Well, if YOU called them just to mess with them, you indeed have no life...

 

I got called by them once, I just told them "which PC? I have more than one computer, give me the MAC address of the PC you say has serious security issues", they hung up(after trying to bluff their BS in a bit more). Because really, they had no way to attribute a phone number to my network in the first place, unless they had somehow managed to hack in and gotten that info... Which at that point what's the point of phoning to try and scam people.

[deWaardt]

Sometimes they call me.

I then continue to fire up some "foreign" operating system like Mac OS X or a Linux flavour.

Really easily pisses them off.

[MoonlightSylv]

3 hours ago, TetraSky said:

Well, if YOU called them just to mess with them, you indeed have no life...

I'm only 13, what 13 year old has a life?

 

3 hours ago, dalekphalm said:

I hope you obfuscated your IP info... a VM still uses the same WAN IP, unless you take measures to hide it (Proxies, VPN's, etc).

I did, they probably don't know how to do that anyway.

[demonix00]

8 hours ago, samcool55 said:

Don't even google hurr-durr! Just did that and anti-virus went mad... I thought google was safe, turns out i was wrong.

I'm guessing that your browser was caching some of the results to speed up access to those options and that site was one of those.

 

One of the reasons why you should find out if your browser has caching options for search engines and turn it off.