Need some ideas

[Fyrtwuck]

I've been getting three to four calls a week from different numbers and the callers have all had middle eastern accents and claiming to be from Windows telling me that my computer has been sending error messages.

I think it's about time I had some fun and I need some ideas to mess with them. Normally I just hang up and block the number, but I'm bored.

 

[ifishok]

I tell them "really? Well I need to turn the PC on, hang on a minute, then I tell them after 3 minutes, oh I got some sort of blue screen about some errors, let try it again. Then 3 minutes later, I say the same thing. Repeat till they hang up.[emoji41]

 

[ifishok]

And, I do this in my old man voice, just to make them think it's worth waiting on.

 

[Eagle Eye]

I had two or three calls like that in the span of 2 days. They said there is an urgent problem with my windows machine.
Finally, without thinking, I said "I have a Mac"
Guy hung up and I have not had a call like that since.

 

[NikatKimber]

"What!?!?! You mean to tell me someone put one of those dad-burned machines in MY house?!?!?"

 

[druryj]

And, I do this in my old man voice, just to make them think it's worth waiting on.

I use my old man voice for this too. Come to think of it, I use my old man voice for everything. Dang.

 

[Old rookie]

My most successful response was speaking as if I was having serious medical conditions and literally ready to die....the dickwad actually ended up staying on the line, apologizing, asking if I was going to be okay, until I faded off and hung up the phone.
Not another call since...

 

[Commander Keen]

I read a post about a guy who strung one of those guys along for a couple hours.

He pretended to do what the guy wanted, "forgot"instructions and asked to have them repeated, said he had to wait on his 28.8k modem to connect... Basically making the guy think he was going to get what he wanted until dropping the fact that he was a network security engineer or some such. No calls after that.

 

[slas]

Had the same thing, told him we didn't have a computer. He said, "Oh really, we can see it". Then I told him my daughter had one upstairs and he said that was probably it. Then I told him it wasn't connected to the internet so I wasn't sure how he was seeing it. We do have two, both connected, but couldn't help messing with him....

 

[aviator41]

I read a post about a guy who strung one of those guys along for a couple hours.

He pretended to do what the guy wanted, "forgot"instructions and asked to have them repeated, said he had to wait on his 28.8k modem to connect... Basically making the guy think he was going to get what he wanted until dropping the fact that he was a network security engineer or some such. No calls after that.

I've done this. What's best is if you can have the modem handshake sound going in the background, then of course you need the "you've got mail!" from the old AOL program. Let them get partially through the "troubleshooting" and they "nope, nope... it's not this computer you're wanting the computer in the OTHER room.... hold on, let me get to it..." then start all over.

I've actually been cussed it in what I believe to be Farsi. it's kinda fun!