About once a month I get a call with someone trying to pull the "I'm from Microsoft and we detected your computer has a virus" scam. I needed to take a break for a few minutes, so I decided to waste some of his time instead of just hanging up and letting him move on to his next mark.
After letting him drone on for a couple of minutes I broke into his script reading ans asked exactly how he knew my computer had a virus. He said it's sending out messages every time I turn on my computer. I told him I just got back from a 2-week vacation (I wish!) and hadn't turned my computer on during that time. He then proceded with his script and asked me to turn on my computer.
I then told him he was a lying piece of **** and was well aware of the scam he was trying to pull. It was really hard to understand his think accent, but I thought he said something about hoping to get together for a beer once the virus was eradicated.
Okay, time to hang up and get back to work.
Next time, I think I'm going to tell the scammer I converted to Ubuntu 2 years ago and don't use Microsoft products because of all the telephone scammers and see how that goes. :)
