Hubby got a call from them yesterday.
He played along for a good half an hour pretending to carry out the commands on the computer they were directing him to. Their reasoning being virus issues with the computer and was trying to get him to download a website.
Hubby said there was a lot of commands they wanted him to follow, he figured the idea being to get into a false sense of security with them so when it came time to download the file he was in kind of robot mode by them from listening to all their instructions.
Eventually after half an hour hubby said that he's over it it, was just playing along, doesn't want to do it anymore and knows its a scam. The guy got really angry at him and said, "Sir, you have not only wasted your time, but you have wasted my time too." And hung up abruptly on him.
This is so worry some- I can't believe how many of our club members alone, they have had contact with. Imagine all those people out there who have now got their personal files infected. Not to mention people's bank account details etc. And if I'm to be perfectly honest- I know very little about computers - if hubby wasn't in charge of my computer, I probably would have done as they asked.
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Originally Posted by renormalised http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/....s/viewpost.gif
Personally, I'd stick them on a really slow boat back to India and make them eek out a living in the Bombay or Calcutta slums, where they belong. Gives everyone from there that's honest and upstanding a bad name. But like all rats, you give them an inch and they'll take a mile.
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I think Carl wasn't harsh enough....
I'd have lots more to say... personally, I'd like to hang them off a tree branch and torture them so they never ever ever do this kind of job for a living again.
Coming from that part of the world myself, I understand the culture quite well. Whatever their situation is, it just doesn't give these people the right to steal from innocent, trusting people and making their lives hell.
Not just a simple case of hanging up either, think of all the people that have been scammed already thinking it's legitimate.
