chrisheltra
12-18-2010, 12:25 PM
Borrowed from another board.
I just did this an hour ago (no repost, no pasted email, just Rick in one of those moods). I have heard about people doing this to telemarketers, I always wanted to, never thought about it or had the opportunity at the same time.
I am working from home today and my house phone rings. I look at the caller-id, "Unknown Name, Unknown number". Not sure why, but I answered it. The caller on the other end, in heavily accented English, was from "Windows Technical Support" and told me "they looked on the Internet and saw my computer was running slow and was having errors." Right....
I'm bored so I decide I am going to mess with them. The caller named Jim, wanted me to look for the "Start" button on the lower left corner of my PC. We went back and forth for about 5 minutes because I couldn't find it. He was getting kind of agitated so I started to act more paranoid that my computer was having an issue because the "Start" button was missing. The world is coming to end paranoid. While he is trying to keep his cool because I am an obvious idiot in his world and he thinks he has a live one, I am actually digging through my dog training box looking for my....
< wait for it >
starter's pistol.
Cool. I found it and it has 5 holes with primers in it. Score! I walk into my office, find a hardbound dictionary. This is going to be good.
I act that I am at the point of hyperventilation, not sure what to do, my computer is screwed up, my identity has been stolen, the world is coming to an end. I faked tears and crying. At this point, I tell the guy I have to put him on speaker, he allows it. Fool.
Phone on speaker. Hard bound dictionary in one hand, starter's pistol in the other, stupid Middle Eastern scammer on speaker.
Click! Click! BANG! WHOMP! Complete silence on the phone. You guessed it, I pulled the trigger 3x until I found a live cylinder and dropped the dictionary to make it sound like I shot myself. After 45 seconds of silence, he hangs up.
Sad part is, how many people will fall for these guys calling them and letting them install key loggers, spyware, whatever they are up to. Hopefully, I just took one phone operator out of commission for awhile.
I just did this an hour ago (no repost, no pasted email, just Rick in one of those moods). I have heard about people doing this to telemarketers, I always wanted to, never thought about it or had the opportunity at the same time.
I am working from home today and my house phone rings. I look at the caller-id, "Unknown Name, Unknown number". Not sure why, but I answered it. The caller on the other end, in heavily accented English, was from "Windows Technical Support" and told me "they looked on the Internet and saw my computer was running slow and was having errors." Right....
I'm bored so I decide I am going to mess with them. The caller named Jim, wanted me to look for the "Start" button on the lower left corner of my PC. We went back and forth for about 5 minutes because I couldn't find it. He was getting kind of agitated so I started to act more paranoid that my computer was having an issue because the "Start" button was missing. The world is coming to end paranoid. While he is trying to keep his cool because I am an obvious idiot in his world and he thinks he has a live one, I am actually digging through my dog training box looking for my....
< wait for it >
starter's pistol.
Cool. I found it and it has 5 holes with primers in it. Score! I walk into my office, find a hardbound dictionary. This is going to be good.
I act that I am at the point of hyperventilation, not sure what to do, my computer is screwed up, my identity has been stolen, the world is coming to an end. I faked tears and crying. At this point, I tell the guy I have to put him on speaker, he allows it. Fool.
Phone on speaker. Hard bound dictionary in one hand, starter's pistol in the other, stupid Middle Eastern scammer on speaker.
Click! Click! BANG! WHOMP! Complete silence on the phone. You guessed it, I pulled the trigger 3x until I found a live cylinder and dropped the dictionary to make it sound like I shot myself. After 45 seconds of silence, he hangs up.
Sad part is, how many people will fall for these guys calling them and letting them install key loggers, spyware, whatever they are up to. Hopefully, I just took one phone operator out of commission for awhile.