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by tiltowait 1050 days ago
I really enjoyed messing with the "Microsoft tech support" calls I would frequently get. In addition to keeping them on hold for half an hour "while my computer turned on" (aka I made and ate breakfast), I liked to try to follow their directions on wholly inappropriate hardware and seeing how they responded. After telling one guy that "chrome" wasn't a recognized command, he asked me what was on my screen and got very excited when I replied, "READY."

Alas, my old Commodore 64 proved scam-proof.

(As an aside, I remain amazed by the scammers' patience.)

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Kitboga on youtube is a great channel if you want to watch scammers get strung along for hours while he pretends to be a confused old man while actively getting the services used by the scammers cancelled.