Phoney call from MS:
- We at Microsoft have detected an issue with your PC.
- Oh, I only have a Mac.
- But that is fine, I will transfer you to the Mac department...

Oh I love those calls, genuinely, I do. They really break my day up and I can have some real fun with them...

@Paramite
Yes, I had my first, today. Asked him if it's not getting abit too old, this scam. Got angry like crazy, threatening me and yelling... Sigh...

@Paramite if you go to YouTube and search scammers, some YouTubers will provide some phone numbers so you can play with them.

@Bobj2008 Jolly Roger telephone has an amazing YouTube channel where he posts the audio of his bot trolling telemarketers

Lewis's Tech & Each&Everything are popular in playing with Tech Support Scammers.

https://youtu.be/cIVfrBFc5og
My favorite telemarketer prank

@DeveloperACE thanks for sharing, this is funny

For a while, I had a virtual machine lying around in the case a support scammer phoned. The plan was to give them access to it, take a VM snapshot, let them poke around a bit and then revert to the snapshot and enjoy their reactions.

Oddly, they phoned my relatives, some friend but never me, so I couldn't test my ploy.

/me fires up IRIX and VMS machines that are currently gathering dust

Had that kind of call for not so long ago, we seriously ended up screaming fuck you to each other. Such fun I have with them.

They actually have mac department. To support at least Microsoft office on OS X. I guess. 😂

I'm getting a lot of these lately for some reason. My view is simple. If they're going to waste my time I'll waste their own too.

Whilst I'm working at my desk I have the phone on loudspeaker so I can keep him talking for as long as possible.

They alwAys get pretty annoyed at the end which is a bonus. Talking everything they saying literally seems to work great. I.e. "Wwwdot" :)