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by radiorental 3425 days ago
I'm on mac too with a win7 vm, I hit upon the idea of tagging them along as far as I could when they asked me to press the windows key and I'm looking at a mac keyboard.

The different shops that have called me all follow a similar set of attacks

1) windows key 2) run command to msconfig 3) browser to download payload.

I had a 'supervisor' on the line once and when they asked me to connect to the internet I'm pretty sure I heard them curse at me with incredulity as I played the 56K dialup sound.

I once got them down a conversation cul-de-sac when I asked them which they preferred - Minesweeper or Solitaire.

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>> I'm pretty sure I heard them curse at me with incredulity as I played the 56K dialup sound.

That is some comedy GOLD right there.

Awesome!

Yeah they always use the prompt to get to the admin panel with the list of errors and logs to prove there's an issue. I always act nervous. "There's a lot, Is it that bad?", and they respond with "don't worry sir, we're going to get it fixed for you".

I usually tell them its a hyper key...
Oh do you have that recording. Awesome
I lost them cursing at me and I don't have the Solitaire v. Minesweeper discussion recorded but here's something similar at 11 minutes https://soundcloud.com/radiorental1/dell-support
Hah, this was great, listened to the whole thing. You had some nice tricks up your sleeve, laughed out loud a couple of times. Thanks! Love the response you got at the end...