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just got a call from the tech support scammers. I acted as if I was doing what they wanted, but I occasionally acted pissed because "my computer spontaneously turned off". Then they waited with me as I "started it" again.
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I have an Mageia 4 laptop, skinned rather decently to look like Win7, including a few programs running in wine. I want to let one of them in to it via teamviewer and watch them try to use it. I'll tell them the infection rep[laced the windows start menu with some "k menu" and see what they say.
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I've seen people on Youtube do that, but they do it with virtual machines, typically what happens is once they've conned you (or you've conned them) into getting access to your machine, they start trashing your operating system files until you pay up.
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By wasting their time and trying to annoy them, we are actually doing a good thing. The more time we do this, the less time they have to rip unsuspecting folks off... and if we can make them hate their job even more, all the better. If even 6 out of 10 people did this instead of hanging up on the scammers, it would not be worth it for them to continue.
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