[ SECRET POST #2896 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2896 ⌋

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I was a dumbass and fell for a fake microsoft scam

[(Anonymous)]

But to be fair, my mom came to me with the phone in a complete panic, which had me panicking too much to think clearly and I just did what the guy with the Indian accent on the phone said.

Something felt fishy during the call, I had all the alarm bells going off in my mind and stupid me ignored them. Afterward, I looked up the "company" and saw it was a scam. I screamed at my mom to cancel our debit card NOW! I had help to make sure my computer was clean of malware and installed new antivirus software since the old one was uninstalled during the phone call and I was afraid trying to redownload/reinstall the old one would mess my computer up worse.

Btw, I do backup regularly on an external drive, but I had to go change over 1,000 passwords which wasted three days. This bullshit went down when I was really busy and couldn't spend much time on my computer. I went for the most important passwords first-- online stores and my email. The rest were just social media and forums.

Those fuckers need to get real jobs.

Luckily everything is clean and safe of malware thanks to the help I had to check it all out, but I feel like an idiot. It wasn't until after this that I saw a news story about the microsoft scam callers. I'm still pissed off about it because it meant running to the bank to cancel the old debit card and get a new one. All this happened while in the middle of trying to pay for a bunch of other things, like medications and bills. THANK GOD the money we paid the scamfucks was returned to our account a few months later. We could not afford those three hundred dollars they tried to extort.

But the thing is, if you refuse to pay while they're in your computer, they can lock you out of it and you have a nice deskbrick unless you have the computer know-how to get around that. It turns out letting them have the money was the safer option at the time.

I'm a dumbass, but I had NEVER heard of this scam before. Now when they call, I tell them that my military aunt knows where they live and they better watch out for snipers before I hang up. Yeah, probably cold, but fuck them!