I just received a call from an indian microsoft technician. He informed me that my PC is sending a ton of error messages to microsoft. Most likely it has been hacked, and he would help me by remoting in and fixing the problem for me. I just wonder… Is it my PopOs or my Manjaro PC that sends all this info to microsoft?
What ever u do, DO NOT REDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEM THAT GIFTCARD SIR, SIR I BEG U DO NOT REDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEM
DO NOT REDEEM
WHY ARE YOU REDEEMING
WHY ARE YOU REDEEMING
WHY ARE YOU NOT LISTENING SIR
WHY DID YOU REDEEM SIR
I hope we’re all referencing the same kitboga moment
Is that from one of these “messing with scammers” videos?
Yeah, I believe Kitboga did this with his voice disguised as an old woman.
BITCH ARE YOU MAD?!?
My favorite is: MA’AM ARE YOU A PROSTITUTE?
If it’s sending information to Microsoft then it has clearly been hacked. Likely by Microsoft. It was very nice of that young man to break protocol and blow the whistle on this whole thing. You should send him an itunes gift card as a thank you.
Microsoft? More like Hackrosoft!!1!!
But I’ve sent all those to the CIA!
These are the same people - CIA just outsourced their call center to India & they have to send all gift cards back to the CIA, you just cut out the middleman.
One time I kept a guy on the phone for about ten minutes just playing dumb. Then he’s like, sir, what version of Windows do you have?"
I say, I’m not sure but it’s the one with the little penguin icon.
We actually had a good laugh about it together
Lmao
I won free airline tickets once and was shocked and appalled when they said I COULDNT use them to go to the moon. I fought long and hard for the right to use those tickets the way I wanted but alas.
All that malware should be running without problems. Wine’s gotten pretty good by now.
Ah yes, I remember back in the day we had to build WINE with unofficial patches to get malware to work. How times have changed.
But how’s Siddhartha going to find the Event Viewer!?
Can someone confirm if syskeying works on Wine?
Proper malware often still doesn’t run. Cheap executables to encrypt your stuff and so on the other hand work well.
Which is why wine should be run as its own unpriviledged user…
I still chuckle about the fact that WannaCry the ransomware software has a WineHQ entry
“Why did you redeem? You’re ending my life SIR! Whyyyyyy?”
I will never tire of reading/hearing that line.
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Pretty certain it was from this episode https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eqg0cRVed4Y
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Good bot.
I once played along just to waste their time. Got to the point where I had to go to a site and get my IP address.
I told him it was 127.0.0.1, and he just said “I think you be messing with me now sir” and hung up. :D
You could’ve told him your local IP (192.168.(1…255).(1…255)), is completely useless outside your home network but looks real enough.
Anybody with a bit of technical knowledge will recognize a local IP address
its a dangerous virus known as ‘Linux’ which can completely replace your precious Windows installation! be careful, there is a lot of propaganda pushing free (as in communism) software
I once looked at a Linux PC and I couldn’t stop reading Karl Marx ever since.
What is this unfortunate disease called
Communism. You get it automatically from using Linux. Everybody knows that.
Once someone asked if somebody knows how to run this old game in a linux community.
The game was “capitalism lab”. I said no, we are communists.
The guy then deleted his post.
Definitely. You should buy Google Play gift cards to pay for his services straight away.
My father in law called me because he talked to a MS support rep about how his computer was dying. He was running Linux Mint.
lol
And you have no Windows VM ready to troll him?
No, this is the first time something like this happened to me. i dont even get it. In my country mostly young people speak english. Isnt the target demographic the elderly?
Young people can (and often are) just as tech illiterate as the elderly. Just because you grew up with an iPad in your hands doesn’t mean you understand computers.
From my observations, it’s even worse. I
Oh for sure … I (18m) helped out teaching product design at my school last year (a class of 12 year olds). When asked to open an app, many of them searched it up on google or didnt know how. We gave them the name if the app and only about 2/30 people
You
Sounds like someone from your country is selling your data to India.
I did the opposite one day when I was bored. Wasted an hour with them and a Linux VM. Think they were the ones that had my Dell service ID for a tablet I previously owned.
A friend’s neighbor just fell for this. She received a call from the “nicest” Microsoft tech and decided she’d let them into her PC. Within 10 minutes after hanging up she received a call from her bank asking if an $800 debit was valid. It took her weeks to clean up the mess.
Naievety tax
Well Manjaro is known for DDOSing the AUR. So there is that
I gotta say, you got me on the first half
Curious question, is it “safe” to let them enter into a VM that runs windows? And is there an easy way to record their ip (to hand over to the police)
lol I’m sure the Indian police will definitely not throw that info in the bin
Depending on the type of VM it may not be completely sandboxed. Not worth it in my opinion. Also the police aren’t going to do squat. Hell they wouldn’t do anything even if they were down the street not to mention they’re on the other side of the earth.
Ehh. With enough digital forensics performed, you can generally get the information to authorities who will do something. For the average power user, this level of forensics is more than you’re going to be able to perform on your own. Simply having an IP address really isn’t sufficient. One unsubstantiated claim with an IP address doesn’t constitute enough evidence for them to take action, especially by someone who lives in a different country.
I only say so because I’ve seen the lengths some people have gone to in order to track down scammers and similar nefarious individuals and “companies”, and it is quite involved. Far more than what I would expect any single person to take on by themselves and frequently requiring extensive knowledge of the tools used, the vulnerabilities in those tools, and a fair amount of legwork (literally traveling around to collect information)… Which isn’t to mention a good amount of funding. At the end of the day, you’re just cutting off one of the heads of the Hydra, and they’ll be back in short order. There’s no shortage of morally bankrupt people willing to exploit and extort people with more money than sense, or at least, without enough technical understanding to know better. The problem isn’t exclusive to India, and with a billion people, there’s bound to be a disproportionate representation of scoundrels in that region whom are happy to rob anyone and everyone of their last dime just to get rich.
Bluntly, it’s more of a statement on humanity than it is of India, the Indian people, or their culture. These garbage people exist everywhere… Snake oil salesmen come to mind.
It’s probably better to get in contact with the people who are professionals at this if you want to help out.
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