[Leaning Right]

There's a whole group of people on Youtube who mess with these criminal Indian scam callers. When the Indian scam caller calls, these Youtube folks try to waste the scammer’s time with misdirections, obtuse questions, etc. Search Youtube for ‘scam calls indian’ and you'll see what I mean.

A typical scam caller might claim to be from Microsoft, and say they have reports that your computer is infected. For perhaps $200 the scammer will say he'll remotely clean your computer for you. Or the scammer might claim to be from the IRS, and say you owe the IRS money, but you'll get a discount if you pay now, over the phone.

I read a report out of the UK that said something like 1 in 5 people who get these calls fall for it.

[Jack Hydrazine]

I like Tom Mabe’s approach to telemarketers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAb8vGSRBoE

[Radagast the Fool]

I get these calls all the time, too.
I ask them if the product/service they’re selling will clean up copious amounts of blood spatter (or vomit, if it is dinnertime in Mumbai), and not leave any traces for CSI.

They usually hang up pretty fast!!

[5th MEB]

I kept getting those rat-bastard callers from India to fix a virus on my computer, they must have called about 20 times.
The last call I ever got from them I told the guy I wouldn’t need their help, he asked me why, so I told him.
“ I took the goddamn computer outside and shot it with my 45”. He actually told me I wasn’t supposed to do that, I answered that it was to late now, the damn thing was dead.
Never got another call from any of those jerks.
Thing is I actually did have a virus and had to completely reformat.

[fatnotlazy]

A friend of mine fell for a scam similar to the Microsoft one. They did something to her Apple computer to make it appear to be locked, then gave her a number to call where the person on the other end said the computer would be unlocked if she paid $200. The phone number she called was supposedly for Apple, but it was later learned that the call came from India. Unfortunately, my friend in a panic agreed to pay the $200 and b provided a credit card number.

Fortunately, another friend straightened everything out and the credit card was cancelled with the charge removed. My friend now has the real contact info for Apple on a post-it attached to her computer monitor, so if something like this happens again, she can talk to the real tech support.

[Joan Kerrey]

mess with these criminal Indian scam callers

I get these all the time and found a pretty quick way to get them to hang up on their own. I tell them I don’t have a computer and usually there is silence and then a hang up the follows.

[EQAndyBuzz]

It’s windows support and they tell you your computed is throwing bad ip addresses. This is my favorite call. First I ask them whether it’s my windows, Linux or Mac setups. Before he answers, I tell him well since you are from windows support it must be my windows computers. I then apologize for how stupid I am and will gladly help.

Before I sign onto any computer I ask him for the computer name he found the error on. I then tell him how to go to the computer name and ask him if I could log onto his system to show him. If I don’t get a click, I’ll continue to try to get him to give me remote access to his system. Usually by now they hang up on me. However I have had some of them question why I need to get on their system.

When I finally get bored with them, I .thank them for all their help. They haven’t gotten any closer to getting me to open my system to them andI tell them I had a good time looking at their system. Click.