Hahahah - blogger toys with "windows warranty" scammer

[Juddog]

This article had me laughing out loud:
http://blog.malwarebytes.org/intell...-the-wrong-guy-get-mad-and-trash-pc/#more-849

cliff notes:
* The guy calls from India or wherever, and tries the classic scam
* The person from the blog keeps mis-typing the CC number on the paypal site
* The tech ends up trying to delete all of his important files then hangs up.

 

[blackangst1]

lol

 

[Chiefcrowe]

wow.. that is a good one, thanks!

 

[cubby1223]

It's good info to know. But I would never allow them access to a machine unless it was one I have already planned to wipe clean.

One business I work for recently had their document scanner stop working, and the owner wanted to deal with the company who provided the scanner to them, their tech comes over (legitimate person, not looking to scam anyone), but basically goes through the same set of troubleshooting steps as in the linked article. Couple drive letters had warnings in the device manager (letters belonging to card readers, no cards in the slots), and some random unimportant error messages in the event viewer (there nearly always are some error messages that are unimportant), just trying to throw it back at me as something wrong with the computer.

What really annoys me is the user who is so eager to hand over a hundred dollars to the scammer but is pissed off when I charge to actually clean the machine. I've had one guy even go out and purchase a gift card those FBI warning viruses wanted to go away. Once the warning did not go away after he complied, then he called me.