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I just got a call from a Windows tech support scammer. I barely had the energy to mess with them, and I told them I wasn't interested or using Windows, but rather than cut their losses and hang up, they insisted on wasting 6 minutes of their time on me anyway.
That time they wasted on me was time they weren't scamming anyone gullible enough to let them into their PC.
@arielmt Interesting! Presumably, they know their "service" is worthless, but, if they've got to carry out a wretched job, they might as well catch fewer people?
The scammer asked me what operating system I use, and of course I answered Unix.
He asked me to spell it, which I did using the format "<letter> as in <NATO phonetic alphabet word>," and he took offense to the word for I ("India"), telling me several times to use "Indigo" instead without letting me say anything.
The scammer wouldn't even let me correct myself for him before trying to end the call.
The unsolicited tech support scam call.
That apparently they wouldn't let him hang up himself.