Oct 3, 2013
Caller with Indain/Pakistani accent told me he was from Microsoft "Technical Maintenance Dept" and that my computer had alerted him with a message that it was infected. He wanted me to run a series of keyboard commands to "verify the problem", and I played along while looking up all the commands on Google to see what I could find. As I suspected, it was a scam that has been going on for a few years that would end with him trying to sell me software to fix something that wasn't really broken.
I told him to wait for a moment as I read the numerous blog posts and began laughing... and he's like "why are you laughing?" in that heavy Indian accent, which only made me laugh more. I'll give him a B+ for persistence, but a D for failing to recognize the gig was up.