Gooodd lord you gotta love scam calls. "Hello I'm from BT and I'm calling to let you know that your computer operating system has been compromised and it's affecting our main servers"
I know why people fall for this. It's scary sounding, if you aren't at all clued in on some of the more technical aspects of how the internet works (sure it's easy to look up but not everyone has that knowledge or time to do so). It makes me angry that people prey on folks like this though.
@Nine tbh? Like I don’t think public shaming is a good thing a lot of the time but...actually I think ppl who try to scam what’s offen old people should probably be made to publicly apologise when caught.
@Nine there's a steamer named Kitboga that just streams himself messing with scammers, pretending to fall for their scams and wasting their time so they're not calling other people
I like him because unlike most other scambaiters he's not a racist asshole
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@Siphonay it's pretty dark, but Miq's stepdad once got one of these guys pretty good when he was alive. (he passed v. recently, early this year)
One of those scammers called through and he picked up, let the guy go with his usual spiel then claimed to be a police officer, and that "Mr [his own name] has been murdered and I am conducting an investigation", sounding very official, and requesting he give information because he might need to be investigated.
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@Siphonay I SLIGHTLY feel bad for the guy because apparently he was immediately panicked and tripping over himself trying to say he wasn't involved he was just calling from a company and he didn't know him at all, but at the same time fuck scammers entirely and fuck the "companies" behind them especially.
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@Siphonay I'm still not sure how Miq's stepdad managed to keep a straight face while doing it too until the scammer hung up in a panic.
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@Nine sometimes I feel bad for them because I tell myself, maybe they're struggling and it's the only job they found
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@Siphonay same. it's mostly the company I have an issue with doing this, preying both on people desperate for work and also people who are vulnerable or "easy marks" just to callously steal from them.
Fucker hung up without a word the moment I repeated back to him what he was implying, then called him out on his bullshit and told him in no uncertain terms that I knew he was lying, it was a scam, and told them never to call here again.
How do people live with themselves doing this job? jfc.