Call Centre IT Support Scam Prank Phone Call

In which I take a scam call from “Roger Williamson” and slowly irritate him. Roger hopes to part me from my money. I hope to get him to put the phone down. With the IT support scam, criminals try to obtain money from you by deception. Their method is to make an unsolicited phone call to your home, tell you that your computer has infections, show you “evidence”, then con you into paying for software support that you don’t need. The scammers plan for their call to follow this sequence of events: 1. They phone you, identify themselves with a fake name, and state that they work for an IT support company. In some instances they claim to work for Microsoft. 2. They claim that their company has detected “major infections”, “viruses” or bugs on your computer. This is a lie because there is no way they can tell what is on your computer. 3. They ask you to call up the Management Console or Event Viewer on Windows. 4. You will probably see some errors on the Event Viewer. Generally these are nothing to worry about — they are automatically created if Windows fails to run one of its components at startup, or you have a browser crash or something. 5. They claim that these errors are caused by the major infections/viruses/bugs. This is a lie. 6. They may explain that the software maintenance/support contract/warranty that was supplied with your Windows has expired, so you have to renew it with them. Of course you have never heard of this contract because it never existed. 7. They …