"School District" on caller ID; they WANT you to think it is your kids school calling.  ANYTHING to get you to answer.

Just got this scam call as well,  it says School District also.  Didn't recognize the prefix so I didn't pick up.

Obvious scammer from the start. If you're not a computer pro then just tell them you know they're scamming and hang up. He has you get on the computer and pull up your event viewer which will show you failed computer operations numbering in the thousands. Explains how the computer has been corrupted and needs to be fixed lol. Tells you to use the Windows button+R to pull up the run command. Have you type in www.teamviewer.com. I wasn't willing to roleplay beyond that point cause it would involve the installation and activation of a remote host. He explained that they have alot of people to help and it's the quickest way to get my poor computer fixed. If I had finished my black computer that doesn't have access to my router settings I could have collected information about his IP and DNS he was coming from. One day they'll call the wrong person and they'll get  played.

I received the same scam today, foreign accent saying my MS-updates failed (I know they did not).  I hung up on him and redialed the number.  The answering machine said it was the Wal-Mart voucher hotline.  If they call again, I will hack them back.

I just had a spam call from 215-220-2321. It was one of those Hindi call centers using a spoofed #. I played the dumb old man and let them spend minutes walking me through looking at my event log to see all the thousands of error messages that was causing my windows computer to send out errors. While I was leading this dude on, I quickly pulled up a list of Hindi curse words:

http://www.youswear.com/index.asp?language=Hindi#.UukiFhBdVhk

I’m sure he thought he had a live one with me. Just as he was trying to get me to bring up Teamviewer so he could “help” me fix things, I started rattling off down the list of words above. He got very tripped up, and finally let fly a whole barrage of cursing, but under his breath so his bosses didn’t overhear him! :) He sounded torked!

I sure do love Asterisk+FreePBX’s blacklisting capability, but every now and then, a new one comes through. This time I couldn’t resist seeing where it would go. :)