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Faking incontinence and other ways to scare off tech support scammers

Herby

Fun to watch...

There are MANY you-tube videos of them doing "work" on VMs. Almost all of them use silly things like 'tree' commands to do a "scan" then the guy on the other end pastes in a nasty message at the end saying ...infected...trojan...virus... or some such. One guy salts his VM with all sorts of booby traps and watches the fun ensue.

There is one example where a guy gave a fake credit card number and captured the customer service guy scammer calling up the credit card processing page on HIS VM. He wanted to go in and refund all the charges. Another actually got the remote guy to lock up his own computer (syskey).

Some are pretty interesting.

My one experience was with a guy trying to get a windows command window up (windows-R), but nothing happens on my Linux machine. It took about 5 minutes for him to realize this.

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