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Well deary, I wouldn't want to get in any trouble (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 year ago

I'm kinda convinced Dell sold my details to Indian scammers. I didn't have my laptop long before I started getting calls from "Dell Apple Microsoft tech support" about the computer sending them virus reports. I'm sure wanting me to let them remote into the machine, or run some other computer-based scam.

They had to have gotten the info from Dell; they knew the model number of the machine.

So I had someone who spoke with a thick accent wanting me to press Ctrl+Alt+R or whatever the run dialog hotkey in Windows is and run some commands. So I did exactly what he wanted me to do. And nothing happened. Because Linux Mint doesn't bind anything to Ctrl+Alt+R by default. Last thing I heard him say was "Listen, you fucking guy..."

I should have wasted more of his time, the parasite.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 year ago

I had the complete opposite experience with a client where the scammer kept telling me to click on the Start menu even after I goaded him by telling him we were on a Mac. No ability to shift the scheme.

[-] tryptaminev@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

The scams are run by professional call centers. Sometimes as a side business of an otherwise normal call center. The people working there are call center workers. They have a script and they follow the script. They could have no knowledge of the underlying tech at all.