Years ago I helped a guy clean malware off his system. While looking through his configuration, I saw some oddly-named device drivers, and he insisted that they

Years ago I helped a guy clean malware off his system. While looking through his configuration, I saw some oddly-named device drivers, and he insisted that they were part of his music hardware and could not be deleted. I told him to at least keep an eye on it. A week later, he asked me again to clean malware off his system. I asked him how it got back on there, and he told me Microsoft called and said his system was infected, and thus began the tech-support scam. I said "Um, did you forget you already paid me to remove that shit? You just invited that guy to put it back!" I looked at his config and more "drivers" with similar names appeared in the list that weren't there before. Finally he was convinced the other ones weren't part of his music hardware install and that I should delete them. While doing this, he confided in me that he had just lost $1500, because a girl he met online from overseas was supposed to visit him, and whatever happened so she had to borrow money from him for the ticket. But gee golly, she never showed up. He was surprised, because she sounded so nice. After that, I refused to do any more work on his computers. Although I did tell him if he continues to feel like throwing money around indiscriminately at every scam that shows up, I'll gladly quote him for fake services just to keep him happy and broke. For the first time ever, he declined.