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A young woman, perhaps in her early twenties by the sound of her voice, called me pretending to be from Microsoft. She had an American accent and was very pleasant. I acted like a befuddled Senior.
“Sir, what kind of computer do you have? We detected suspicious activity and we need to resolve this now to protect you and our servers.” “Well young lady, the sticker says Tandy 286.” “Ummm I’m not familiar with that brand. Where did you buy it?” “Radio Shack about 10 years ago—- no make that 1978, and this is 2010, so that would be — now let me get my calculator— I had it here someplace…” “That won’t be necessary sir. Your computer has been broken into by scammers and I need to access it now…” At this point, I shouted for my wife, “Isabell- we’ve been robbed, somebody stole our computer and Microsoft is mad at us.” I hammed it up pretending to calm my hysterical wife, who was actually out getting her nails done when the woman was talking loudly to get my attention. I was stuttering and mumbling when she said, “Sir, looks like we fixed it on our end. Sorry to bother you and upset your wife. Goodbye and please, please don’t worry anymore.” As I was hanging up, I wept, “Oh no, oh no what am I going to do?” www.quora.com/What-is-the-oddest-conversation-youve-had-with-a-telephone-scammer/answer/Michael-Swedenberg-1 |
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