Keep them busy as long as you can, just play along for a while. When they get impatient you tell them all your machines run on Linux. Then inform them that you've traced the call to Bangalore. The more swearwords they use; the more effective you've been at wasting their time. Too bad I didn't have recording set up or I'd share the vast collection of foul language I received. Remember, you are talking to hackers and they can't get into your machine, that's why they called; they need you to let them in. Have fun but don't change the settings on your machine and don't give them any information that could ID you or your machine. Whatever you do, don't ever do what they tell you to.
You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
Hehe - I did once have another call like that where I informed the guy that I had been speaking with the UK government for hours about his case and, yes, he started swearing and asking me how exactly MI5 was going to come and find him.. lol
In the past I actually traced such a call to a call center in Bangalore, India. Thank you Google; that was easy. In the Netherlands they now provide a telephone service that is non-area code specific for on line businesses. The guys from Bangalore are now using that to hide the fact that the call comes from India and make it look like it came from the Netherlands. No matter; I'll gladly waste their time if I've got the time, but they don't call me anymore. I must be on their "do not call" list :)