Just had a phonecall from “BT tech support”. Apparently there’s “corrupted temporary files on my computer”.<\/p>\n
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Them:<\/strong> Hello, am I speaking to Mr Turpin?<\/p>\n Me:<\/strong> Yes you are.<\/p>\n Them:<\/strong> Hello, my name is Chester, I’m calling from BT tecnical support about your phone and broadband service. We’ve been monitoring that there’s corrupted temporary files on your computer..<\/p>\n Me:<\/strong> Wait, so you’re intercepting my communications..?<\/p>\n “Chester”:<\/strong> Yes sir, we..<\/p>\n Me:<\/strong> You’re SPYING on my communications??<\/p>\n Chester:<\/strong> Well sir we’re from the research depar..<\/p>\n Me:<\/strong> The only way you could know there’s corrupted files on my computer is if you’re illegally monitoring my communications!!!<\/p>\n Chester:<\/strong> Ah, well sir..<\/p>\n Me:<\/strong> What did you say your name was?<\/p>\n Chester:<\/strong> Ah? Mr Turpin.<\/p>\n Me:<\/strong> No that’s MY NAME! Fuck off please!! *I hang up*<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Just sayin’, a good scam probably isn’t one that starts<\/em> by telling you they’ve done something illegal to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just had a phonecall from “BT tech support”. Apparently there’s “corrupted temporary files on my computer”. Them: Hello, am I speaking to Mr Turpin? Me: Yes you are. Them: Hello, my name is Chester, I’m calling from BT tecnical support about your phone and broadband service. We’ve been monitoring that there’s corrupted temporary files … Continue reading “A piss-poor scam premise”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,21],"tags":[255,257,258,256],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-blogging","category-security","tag-bt-scam","tag-cold-callers","tag-indian-call-center","tag-telephone-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}