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My mother, who is almost 70, received four of these calls last year. The first time she initially panicked, but wrote down a lot of information, including a cal
by nekojima 15y ago
My mother, who is almost 70, received four of these calls last year. The first time she initially panicked, but wrote down a lot of information, including a callback number and they number they were calling from, during the thirty minutes she kept them talking. She then called the local police and emailed Microsoft with the information she had, and emailed all her friends to tell them to be careful & what to watch for. Some of them had been contacted already.
The next time, she kept them talking and was making intentional mistakes to keep them on the line, while using her mobile to call the local police to see if they could do something to trace the call.
The next two times she talked to them for a similar amount of time as well. She must be watching too many police & spy shows. LOL
- redthrowaway 15y agoYour mom sounds awesome. I don't think mine would fall for the scam, but she wouldn't drag them along, either. She'd just very politely (we're Canadian, after all) tell them she wasn't interested.
- techdmn 15y agoI was driving along the left lane of the interstate one day, a hundred miles north of Chicago, 20 mph over the limit, passing many cars. I noticed a car behind me in the left lane, not terribly close, but who hadn't been there before. I assumed he was catching me quick, and started looking for a gap in the right lane. I checked my mirror again a second later, he hadn't gotten any closer. I thought this odd, but continued in the left lane - the right lane was packed, and he was still a solid ten or fifteen car lengths behind me. After a minute of this I found a three car length gap in the right lane, and pulled over anyway. He was past in a flash. Canadian plates. Not that he didn't want to get around me, he was just too polite to tailgate. :)