I guess I'm missing some good, clean fun by screening my calls. Greg
-----Original Message----- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Rich Thomas via Mercedes Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2014 2:35 PM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Having fun with malicious people I get those guys calling every now and then too, clearly from India. I have on different calls started crying about the fact my computer is going to get destroyed, kept them going by asking how they know and they say they get messages, then I tell them I only run apples, then they hang up. On one call I yelled out, "You clean up the blood then we can drag the body out when I finish this call." I love screwing with those guys and gals, but I feel sorta bad for them as most of them probably have more education than most of our population in the US. I was wondering about the NSA aspect too, hell I would pay some more taxes if there was a box to check [] Send money to NSA to catch phone spammers Write amount here $______ --R On 9/27/14 5:11 PM, Craig via Mercedes wrote: > A little while ago, I got a call from the "Windows Service Center" > telling me that something was wrong on my Windows computer and that I > had malicious software on it. I played along with the fellow for > several minutes, typing the keys and clicking and right-clicking on > things as he instructed me. He wanted me to bring up the "Run" window > by various means, starting with typing ctrl-R, then trying the start > menu, then clicking on "My Computer" on my desktop. > > When all of that didn't work, he handed me off to another fellow who > asked me to right-click on computer. I read him off what I found: > Open, Browse Folder, Cut, Copy, Make Link, Rename, Move to Trash, > Stretch Icon, Restore Icon's Original Size, and Properties. > > He then had me click on the start menu button. I read off what I found > there: Accessories, Edutainment, Games, Graphics, ... He cut me off > and said to click on Accessories and tell him what I saw there. I read off: > Calculator, Character Map, Dictionary, GNU Privacy Assistant, KArm, > Kandy, Take Screenshot, Terminal, Vi IMproved. > > After a few seconds, he came back and asked, "You run Linux?" I > replied, "Yes, and I'm so glad I can waste your time, too." He hung up. > > So why can't the NSA use their information and go after guys like this? > > > Craig > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
