Surprisingly enough, given the years I’ve put in documenting and offering advice on tech support scams, I don’t spend a lot of time talking to the scammers, even though I’ve had many of those calls over the years.
In fact, these days I generally say something rude and put the phone down. Not so long ago, I’d try to string them along for a while just to see what tricks they’d use to persuade me
- that they knew something about the PC I was using
- that I needed to pay them to help me with some mythical problem like a virus.
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