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'Microsoft tech support' scammer recorded threatening to kill B.C. man
The "Microsoft tech support" scam is now the biggest telephone ripoff in Canada — but as B.C. man Jakob Dulisse found, callers are using increasingly nasty tactics to steal our money. Dulisse of Nelson, B.C., decided to take matters into his own hands two weeks ago, turning the tables on a man falsely claiming to be calling from California to offer Microsoft tech support.
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I wish one of these guys called me. I would play along for as long as I could.
The more time you waste, the less time they havbe to rip another person off.... so good on you.
Lots of Linux users mess with them by letting them onto their OS.
I love stringing these tools along. My wife and I had one of them going for about 20 minutes once, playing "dumb old folks" ping-pong. Another scammer I had going was the "duct cleaning" service. Somehow my description of the 10 bedroom house they were going to be cleaning didn't ring true to them after awhile.
Never heard of the duct-cleaning scam. What were they trying to get out of you?
I've never experienced the Microsoft Support calls yet, but I do get a ton of calls from someone telling me I won a Westjet vacation.
Times must be tough.
ONLY $120 million earned between 2 companies in 2 years...
They gotta educate the public better on this.