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LOL I had one of these idiots one day when I had nothing to do, so I listened to see just what he was trying to get at. He told me (in an Indian accent) He was calling from ‘Microsoft Support Services’ OH WOW REALLY??? well he informed me I had many virus infections and was blasting them all over the internet. I tried to sound genuinely panicky and asked what I had to do. He said I would probably have to buy their “special repair product”, but I could try deleting therm first. He directed me to “C:Windowsinf” and asked me to look for the infected files, he said they were easy to find as they all ended in “.inf” in this special infected file folder. I asked him to slow down and list the files I needed to delete (he actually thought I was writing all this down) any way to cut a long story I tied him up for like 45 minutes to an hour with that and all of the stupidest questions I could think of, at which time I went into a rant swore up and down told him his mother and father were brother and sister then just kept ‘over-talking’ him until he got the idea. All in all a fun way to spend a boring morning. I would recommend everyone do it to them if they have some free time. They earn nothing and it probably cost them more for the phone call. Another trick I use, junk snail-mail with return envelopes —- stuff all the junk mail you have around, news paper clippings anything that adds weight before mailing in those envelopes LOL they pay for the weight on the other end. I know probably useless but give quite a rewarding feeling that you just got back a little-bit.

I have had several calls from them. If I have time I play along and waste as much of their time as I can. I was told I was blasting maleware all ove the net and they wanted to help me ( a guy with an Indian accent I could barely understand )….. LOL Oh OK great what do I do? Oh you want me to (instructions to see hidden files), ok done, go to “C:Windowsinf” and delete all files ending with .inf because they are infected files. OK Done now what ? Ok delete all files ending with .pnf Well I have no idea where this was going but I was tired fooling around (and had to ask to have instructions repeated again and slowly because I couldn’t understand him so many times) so I asked why I was deleting all my hardware descriptor files and what it had to do with a virus infection. then I launched into a monologue telling him he was well I’ll keep it clean here, but I did suggest his mother and father were btother and sister and unmarrried leaving him a congenital idiot defect; well you get the idea. He hung up. I also recieved one from what sounded like a young Indian woman, I immediately turned it into phonesex call LOL she hung up very quickly.

All this leads up to: don’t complain or hangup. Make the calls so uncomfortable for the people doing it they quit working for the company.

I actually had someone call back and start swearing at me LOL, I must have touched a nerve somewhere. Oh I knew more dirty wirds than him, WAS HE MAD, he actually htreatened phsycial violence.

THese idiots can be gotten to. If enough people do it who knows they may actually stop.