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My PC is hacked (lemmy.world)

I just received a call from an indian microsoft technician. He informed me that my PC is sending a ton of error messages to microsoft. Most likely it has been hacked, and he would help me by remoting in and fixing the problem for me. I just wonder... Is it my PopOs or my Manjaro PC that sends all this info to microsoft?

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[-] peto@lemm.ee 353 points 1 year ago

If it's sending information to Microsoft then it has clearly been hacked. Likely by Microsoft. It was very nice of that young man to break protocol and blow the whistle on this whole thing. You should send him an itunes gift card as a thank you.

[-] FQQD@feddit.de 50 points 1 year ago

Microsoft? More like Hackrosoft!!1!!

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[-] einfach_orangensaft@feddit.de 216 points 1 year ago

What ever u do, DO NOT REDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEM THAT GIFTCARD SIR, SIR I BEG U DO NOT REDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEM

[-] jemikwa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 70 points 1 year ago
[-] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 81 points 1 year ago

WHY ARE YOU REDEEMING

WHY ARE YOU REDEEMING

[-] edwardbear@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

WHY ARE YOU NOT LISTENING SIR

WHY DID YOU REDEEM SIR

[-] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

I hope we're all referencing the same kitboga moment

[-] Norodix@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Is that from one of these "messing with scammers" videos?

[-] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I believe Kitboga did this with his voice disguised as an old woman.

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[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 155 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You reminded me of those YouTube vigilantes that troll Indian scammers. One installed the remote desktop app they use and let them access a honeypot linux machine just to mock their incompetence and confusion. Then proceeded to take control of their machine steal their data and wipe out their computers. Their reactions are hilarious. It's sad that a lot of very smart people are dragged into it by thugs that leverage debt and physical threats to force them into the scam call centers.

[-] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 116 points 1 year ago

I ended up on a massive Whatsapp group populated primarily by Indian women after I took a content writing class a few years ago. Made several very good friends. I've asked them about the whole Indian scammer thing. One of them said she knows a few, and they do it because they literally don't have other options for employment. Which makes sense. Rampant, unfettered capitalism forces people to make decisions that go against their conscience for the sake of survival. I feel bad for scammers sometimes, other times I feel less charitable when they're scamming my dad...

Whole situation just fucking sucks.

[-] M500@lemmy.ml 61 points 1 year ago

If I had the opportunity, I’d still wipe the scammers computer.

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

You absolutely should.

Scammers escaping poverty by putting a bunch of others into poverty is the very definition of a capitalist and cancer.

Eat the rich just as you would zap cancer.

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

It's always an excuse that criminals make - that they don't have any other options for employment. It's a shitty excuse when 95% of the country is employed and don't scam people. It's easy money for them, nothing more.

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[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

As much as a person could find a reason to feel sorry for them they unnecessarily verbally abuse people they are scamming and that was a choice they made. Their hands are not clean from playing a villain.

And escaping poverty by putting someone else in poverty …that’s the capitalist game. No ethics is part of the package. They are not victims.

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[-] catharso@discuss.tchncs.de 122 points 1 year ago

All that malware should be running without problems. Wine's gotten pretty good by now.

[-] dan@upvote.au 24 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, I remember back in the day we had to build WINE with unofficial patches to get malware to work. How times have changed.

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[-] Jayb151@lemmy.world 97 points 1 year ago

One time I kept a guy on the phone for about ten minutes just playing dumb. Then he's like, sir, what version of Windows do you have?"

I say, I'm not sure but it's the one with the little penguin icon.

We actually had a good laugh about it together

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[-] akash_rawal@lemmy.world 85 points 1 year ago
[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 84 points 1 year ago

Set up a fake Windows VM to fuck with them

[-] XEAL@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

There was a very custom theme for Gnome 2 that made it look like Windows XP...

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[-] disconnectikacio@lemmy.world 77 points 1 year ago

"Why did you redeem? You're ending my life SIR! Whyyyyyy?"

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

I will never tire of reading/hearing that line.

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[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 68 points 1 year ago

its a dangerous virus known as 'Linux' which can completely replace your precious Windows installation! be careful, there is a lot of propaganda pushing free (as in communism) software

[-] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 29 points 1 year ago

I once looked at a Linux PC and I couldn't stop reading Karl Marx ever since.

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 68 points 1 year ago

I once played along just to waste their time. Got to the point where I had to go to a site and get my IP address.

I told him it was 127.0.0.1, and he just said "I think you be messing with me now sir" and hung up. :D

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[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 65 points 1 year ago

Definitely. You should buy Google Play gift cards to pay for his services straight away.

[-] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 47 points 1 year ago

Hello my name is ~~Deepak~~ John Smith. I’m Microsoft. You clearly have wirus you madarchod

[-] XEAL@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

Now please type dablu dablu dablu in your address bar

[-] Water1053@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

My father in law called me because he talked to a MS support rep about how his computer was dying. He was running Linux Mint.

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[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 33 points 1 year ago

And you have no Windows VM ready to troll him?

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[-] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A friend's neighbor just fell for this. She received a call from the "nicest" Microsoft tech and decided she'd let them into her PC. Within 10 minutes after hanging up she received a call from her bank asking if an $800 debit was valid. It took her weeks to clean up the mess.

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[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 31 points 1 year ago

Well Manjaro is known for DDOSing the AUR. So there is that

[-] Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

I gotta say, you got me on the first half

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

Curious question, is it "safe" to let them enter into a VM that runs windows? And is there an easy way to record their ip (to hand over to the police)

[-] JewGoblin@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

lol I'm sure the Indian police will definitely not throw that info in the bin

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[-] nfsu2@feddit.cl 24 points 1 year ago

this made me laugh so hard, there is a YT channel that mocks and pranks this scammers and its hilarious.

[-] Schmuppes@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

There's several of them. Scammer Payback or Kitboga come to mind.

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[-] nieceandtows@programming.dev 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is just microsoft executing their Extinguish stage.

[-] neurospice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 year ago

Sounds like you need an anti-wirus

[-] Fades@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

You’d better send them an iTunes giftcard quickly just to be safe

[-] yamapikariya@lemmyfi.com 18 points 1 year ago

Does kitboga still have his tipline active where you can give him scammers numbers?

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