- Reaction score
- 2
- Points
- 410
So here I am at home alone, doing my thing and the phone rings. Thought it might be my wife checking up on the "honey do list" but it wasn't.
Nice enough fellow with a heavy Indian accent, telling me that he worked for the GoC Dept of Public Safety and that my computer had been hacked from someone in Mexico and that if I didn't do "exactly" what he told me to do, I could go to jail and the matter would be turned over to the RCMP who would be contacting me right after he hung up.
So I got up from my chair, went and unplugged my router, poured myself another glass of wine and was in for the long haul on this one....
Sat back down, laptop on my lap and played along. He walked me through the process of how the Government of Canada was going to help fix the problem but needed "remote access" to my computer to aid in their investigation to stop these people in Mexico and as long as I helped, I wouldn't go to jail and the RCMP wouldn't need to be involved.
I explained that I didn't mean to visit those "questionable" websites and it was all a misunderstanding and if my wife ever found out, she would divorce me! I pleaded for him not to call in the RCMP and I would do everything that he asked.
So while he carefully guided me through the process, he still insisted that I was not being compliant because he still couldn't access my computer and the RCMP would be called. I told him I did everything on my computer that he told me to do and I didn't want any trouble.
Off for another glass of wine.......
Then after going over things a second and third time, he finally asks "Is your computer connected to the internet right now?"
me - Well actually, it's not, you see, I unplugged my router at the beginning of our call because I knew you were a douche bag, so what do you think of that?
I just love it when people with an extremely heavy foreign accent try to use the "f-word" for effect........... :rofl:
I even tried to wish him a Merry Christmas but by then he had hung up......
Nice enough fellow with a heavy Indian accent, telling me that he worked for the GoC Dept of Public Safety and that my computer had been hacked from someone in Mexico and that if I didn't do "exactly" what he told me to do, I could go to jail and the matter would be turned over to the RCMP who would be contacting me right after he hung up.
So I got up from my chair, went and unplugged my router, poured myself another glass of wine and was in for the long haul on this one....
Sat back down, laptop on my lap and played along. He walked me through the process of how the Government of Canada was going to help fix the problem but needed "remote access" to my computer to aid in their investigation to stop these people in Mexico and as long as I helped, I wouldn't go to jail and the RCMP wouldn't need to be involved.
I explained that I didn't mean to visit those "questionable" websites and it was all a misunderstanding and if my wife ever found out, she would divorce me! I pleaded for him not to call in the RCMP and I would do everything that he asked.
So while he carefully guided me through the process, he still insisted that I was not being compliant because he still couldn't access my computer and the RCMP would be called. I told him I did everything on my computer that he told me to do and I didn't want any trouble.
Off for another glass of wine.......
Then after going over things a second and third time, he finally asks "Is your computer connected to the internet right now?"
me - Well actually, it's not, you see, I unplugged my router at the beginning of our call because I knew you were a douche bag, so what do you think of that?
I just love it when people with an extremely heavy foreign accent try to use the "f-word" for effect........... :rofl:
I even tried to wish him a Merry Christmas but by then he had hung up......