[braindouche]

I once decided to talk with a "Hi this is Windows your computer wanted me to tell you it has a virus" guy once, and he's going through his script, trying to determine whether I have a Windows box or a Mac by describing whether I have a command key or a win key on my keyboard. My fancy-pants programmer keyboard happens to have neither, but in trying to explain this to him, he got so mad I literally heard him throwing things off his desk, last of which being the phone itself. I assume my family is still cursed, though I never took his physically improbable suggestions.

[logfromblammo]

I got one of those on the rental's land-line while away on vacation once. Since I was on vacation, I decided to have some fun. So I said I had two computers wired to the Internets, and could he please tell me the IP address of the one that had the problem. The answer, of course, was 127.0.0.1, so then I pretended to log in to my imaginary computer. He was magically able to see that I had logged in, and he told me that yes, my computer was definitely infected with a very bad virus.

I played along until I got bored pretending to be a fumbling, bumbling, low-knowledge user, and revealed that I was not really at my computer, or any computer at all, and I was just messing with an obvious scammer for fun. And that induced a spluttering, heavily accented rage-stream of insults, which was also fun. "I am not scam people! You are the scam!"