Reminds me of this story. I usually just hang up on the advertisers before they get a word in.
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I tend to as well, with an addition of "Please remove me from your calling list as I am on the national do not contact list already".
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If they've got your number despite you being on the do-not-call list, they aren't usually going to care about calling you given that (in this case) it is a scam attempt.
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Actually, I usually don't get anyone trying again when I say that. Between me being a nasty bitch to them and my phone number actually being pretty hard to get through on (I work from home, so it's constantly busy when I'm working) they tend to give up pretty fast and seek an easier victim.
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Fair enough. Never seems to work for me, at least as far as the "Your rindows compooter has a probrem" calls go. Other people who try to sell you cheaper phone bills / do surveys or whatever usually stop.
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I think most don't fall for those scams, probably only older folks who don't know all that much about computers.
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There's a lot of younger folks who know squat about computers as well. I've learned this quite well from doing tech support. You'd be downright amazed at how many people have internet service and don't even know what you are talking about when you ask them to open up their web browser.
Instead I'd have to say "Please click on the big blue E" since we only could do support via IE.
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About my exact thought when I got that because damn, I saw through it even with the mush for a brain I normally have when woken up.
I'm just mad that they woke me up at nearly 9AM on a Saturday when I wanted to sleep in.
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I received a similar call once, but that my computer was compromised by malware. I told him that I use linux and he hung up.
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yes, but nowhere as rampant as windows. Android is quite vulnerable but that's google's fault.
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Nowhere near as much as Windows or even MacOS. Also, Linux users often are more experienced and know what they're doing, so the risk is even less.
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I use Linux and do not have anything at all defending my system. What I am saying is that there is less malware, and if you go looking around the internet or however you get viruses on Windows, it would be quite difficult to find Linux malware unless you explicitly Google for "Linux malware". I know what I'm doing when it comes to computers and Linux, and find I have not ever, and do not have a need for Linux anti-malware protection.
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Linux computers are also often used for work, like actual work not looking at cats online in an office work. I see your point about not needing any protection, but it still doesn't hurt to have an antivirus, just in case. Mid/high specs these days are quite common and will run the antivirus software in the background as if it wasn't even there.
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I've had that before. They say it's interfering with the internet. One time I said I had dial-up internet and couldn't use the internet while the phone was on, so they'd have to call back after I did the steps they said. Another time I said I had a really old computer that I only used for cat pictures. When they said "click the start button" I was like, okay, it's showing me a cat picture now... XD
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If I ever get it again I'll replace cat pictures with porn.
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No thanks, I am not going to fall for that one either. Or the free vacation one I got last weekend.
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I actually did win a weekend away and they called me up. It was a daily mail competition (no, I don't read it, I just enter competitions)
They called like 4 times until I just shouted at them (i usually just hang up)
Gave it to my parents so I could stay at home (i've heard of scams where you win something, go away or go for a meal and they break in and steal all of your shit) No problems, and my parents still get their free 2 year subscription of the daily mail.
but yeah. i've had these phone calls before when I lived in the UK, and i would just talk to them for 10 minutes so they cant harass other people, then tell them to fuck off.
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I always get calls telling me I won a free $500 dollar Walmart gift card for taking some online survey... I don't hang up right away. I'll act like I'm going along with it as I find some obnoxious song on Youtube and then put my phone up to the speaker. Most of the time they hang up right away, but I had one person listen to the whole song before hanging up.
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I'm impressed, I for sure wouldn't be able to come up with such conclusion right after waking up. In such moment I'm more like "ughhhh yessss masterrr".
But they actually could have your phone number. ISP usually monitors amount of outgoing traffic from your PC and blocks your connection, when they notice unusual traffic, e.g. when your computer is used to DDOS (consciously or unconsciously). So if your computer constantly was having such problem, it wouldn't be a surprise to get a similar call.
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Wish I hadn't been woken up by it because I'd have some better details about this.
The caller had a majorly thick accent to begin with and the way they spoke to me originally made me think they had the wrong number.
Then they went on to claim that my computer had been sending messages to them via Windows. My response to this was "Oh, and they happened to include my phone number as well? Yeah, right."
I called them on their BS because even if my computer happens to be sending messages to them, which I doubt it, said messages wouldn't include ways to contact me at my current phone number.
The sad thing is that I bet many people fall for that scam because they don't know better.
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