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Re:Ask HN: How can scam callers fake a mobile phone number? by litgab on Monday March 14, 2022 @01:06PM (#30674993)
I just got a call from the Microsoft Security Team. They informed me my computer was highly infected. I spent 1 hour with them executing all cmd commands they wanted & told them the output.

In the end i told them my wifi was broken and the technician should come by soon to fix it. She turned very aggressive and told me to call my brother Internet provider right now, as this is urgent because the hackers are already in my system. I told her to call me again the next day.

I might have forgot to mention i am using a mac (and had to google the result of all commands & screens). I wanted to setup a VM and trace them or maybe even let them execute a manipulated cmd.exe to create a reverse shell. But after my attempts to buy some time so i could set everything up, they gave up and never called again.

So sad, i am still scared of all the „viruses of very dangerous hackers“…

Re:Ask HN: How can scam callers fake a mobile phone number? by wbobeirne on Monday March 14, 2022 @01:11PM (#30675049)
You'd probably enjoy the content of Jim Browning, a guy who tries to flip the tables on these kinds of tech support scams: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBNG0osIBAprVcZZ3ic84vw
Re:Ask HN: How can scam callers fake a mobile phone number? by toast0 on Monday March 14, 2022 @01:44PM (#30675505)
> I just got a call from the Microsoft Security Team.

They used to call be, but they said they were from 'The Windows'. I tried to get them to play Zork, but they weren't very interested, and it took me a little too long to get it started anyway.