If it's sending information to Microsoft then it has clearly been hacked. Likely by Microsoft. It was very nice of that young man to break protocol and blow the whistle on this whole thing. You should send him an itunes gift card as a thank you.
Microsoft? More like Hackrosoft!!1!!
What ever u do, DO NOT REDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEM THAT GIFTCARD SIR, SIR I BEG U DO NOT REDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEM
DO NOT REDEEM
WHY ARE YOU REDEEMING
WHY ARE YOU REDEEMING
WHY ARE YOU NOT LISTENING SIR
WHY DID YOU REDEEM SIR
I hope we're all referencing the same kitboga moment
Is that from one of these "messing with scammers" videos?
Yeah, I believe Kitboga did this with his voice disguised as an old woman.
You reminded me of those YouTube vigilantes that troll Indian scammers. One installed the remote desktop app they use and let them access a honeypot linux machine just to mock their incompetence and confusion. Then proceeded to take control of their machine steal their data and wipe out their computers. Their reactions are hilarious. It's sad that a lot of very smart people are dragged into it by thugs that leverage debt and physical threats to force them into the scam call centers.
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.
If I had the opportunity, I’d still wipe the scammers computer.
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.
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.
As much as a person could find a reason to feel sorry for them they unnecessarily verbally abuse people they are scamming and that was a choice they made. Their hands are not clean from playing a villain.
And escaping poverty by putting someone else in poverty …that’s the capitalist game. No ethics is part of the package. They are not victims.
All that malware should be running without problems. Wine's gotten pretty good by now.
Ah yes, I remember back in the day we had to build WINE with unofficial patches to get malware to work. How times have changed.
One time I kept a guy on the phone for about ten minutes just playing dumb. Then he's like, sir, what version of Windows do you have?"
I say, I'm not sure but it's the one with the little penguin icon.
We actually had a good laugh about it together
Lmao
Set up a fake Windows VM to fuck with them
There was a good version of windows 7 set up for this. Command prompts wouldn't work right, and really messed with them if you gave then access.
I let one in once and managed to reverse the remote desktop and took over their computer.
That was fun.
"Why did you redeem? You're ending my life SIR! Whyyyyyy?"
its a dangerous virus known as 'Linux' which can completely replace your precious Windows installation! be careful, there is a lot of propaganda pushing free (as in communism) software
I once looked at a Linux PC and I couldn't stop reading Karl Marx ever since.
I once played along just to waste their time. Got to the point where I had to go to a site and get my IP address.
I told him it was 127.0.0.1, and he just said "I think you be messing with me now sir" and hung up. :D
Definitely. You should buy Google Play gift cards to pay for his services straight away.
My father in law called me because he talked to a MS support rep about how his computer was dying. He was running Linux Mint.
Hello my name is ~~Deepak~~ John Smith. I’m Microsoft. You clearly have wirus you madarchod
And you have no Windows VM ready to troll him?
No, this is the first time something like this happened to me. i dont even get it. In my country mostly young people speak english. Isnt the target demographic the elderly?
Well Manjaro is known for DDOSing the AUR. So there is that
A friend's neighbor just fell for this. She received a call from the "nicest" Microsoft tech and decided she'd let them into her PC. Within 10 minutes after hanging up she received a call from her bank asking if an $800 debit was valid. It took her weeks to clean up the mess.
I gotta say, you got me on the first half
Curious question, is it "safe" to let them enter into a VM that runs windows? And is there an easy way to record their ip (to hand over to the police)
Depending on the type of VM it may not be completely sandboxed. Not worth it in my opinion. Also the police aren't going to do squat. Hell they wouldn't do anything even if they were down the street not to mention they're on the other side of the earth.
this made me laugh so hard, there is a YT channel that mocks and pranks this scammers and its hilarious.
Sounds like you need an anti-wirus
This is just microsoft executing their Extinguish stage.
You’d better send them an iTunes giftcard quickly just to be safe
My Boomer dad got taken in by one of these scams. They didn't manage to do much damage, thankfully.
My Silent Generation mom kept one of these guys on the phone for an hour before telling him she didn't have a computer. Oh, the language he used afterwards!
Does kitboga still have his tipline active where you can give him scammers numbers?
Kitboga, please relog back to your account.
Hint: :q!
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