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?
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.
What ever u do, DO NOT REDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEM THAT GIFTCARD SIR, SIR I BEG U DO NOT REDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEM
Is that from one of these “messing with scammers” videos?
Yeah, I believe Kitboga did this with his voice disguised as an old woman.
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
All that malware should be running without problems. Wine’s gotten pretty good by now.
But how’s Siddhartha going to find the Event Viewer!?
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.
Does kitboga still have his tipline active where you can give him scammers numbers?
Good idea, I submitted.
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)
It’s probably better to get in contact with the people who are professionals at this if you want to help out.
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
Kitboga, please relog back to your account.
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
You could’ve told him your local IP (192.168.(1…255).(1…255)), is completely useless outside your home network but looks real enough.
Anybody with a bit of technical knowledge will recognize a local IP address
this made me laugh so hard, there is a YT channel that mocks and pranks this scammers and its hilarious.
There’s several of them. Scammer Payback or Kitboga come to mind.
IRLRosie is a good one too
Isn’t she the voice actor?
Also: Jim Browning.
I once looked in Event Viewer and was gobsmacked by the number of wiruses and hackers in my compyooder.
Microsoft are NEVER, repeat NEVER, going to call you about your computer.