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My PC is hacked (lemmy.world)

I just received a call from an indian microsoft technician. He informed me that my PC is sending a ton of error messages to microsoft. Most likely it has been hacked, and he would help me by remoting in and fixing the problem for me. I just wonder... Is it my PopOs or my Manjaro PC that sends all this info to microsoft?

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[-] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 119 points 1 year ago

I ended up on a massive Whatsapp group populated primarily by Indian women after I took a content writing class a few years ago. Made several very good friends. I've asked them about the whole Indian scammer thing. One of them said she knows a few, and they do it because they literally don't have other options for employment. Which makes sense. Rampant, unfettered capitalism forces people to make decisions that go against their conscience for the sake of survival. I feel bad for scammers sometimes, other times I feel less charitable when they're scamming my dad...

Whole situation just fucking sucks.

[-] M500@lemmy.ml 61 points 1 year ago

If I had the opportunity, I’d still wipe the scammers computer.

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

You absolutely should.

Scammers escaping poverty by putting a bunch of others into poverty is the very definition of a capitalist and cancer.

Eat the rich just as you would zap cancer.

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

It's always an excuse that criminals make - that they don't have any other options for employment. It's a shitty excuse when 95% of the country is employed and don't scam people. It's easy money for them, nothing more.

[-] Halosheep@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

To be fair, India has about a 10% unemployment rate as of 2023.

[-] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Those people chose to not scam people I assume, otherwise they would count in the employed (by scammers)

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So you’re buying that explanation that a scammer is escaping poverty by putting a bunch of someone else’s into poverty?

You just defined Bezos. Lol. You just got double scammed.

this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2023
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