Your Computer is Blocked

Your computer is blocked. Pay for a one-time fixation of $22,039 and I vill fix de wirus.

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The cliché windows popup. Nothing new. I don’t have a picture of the original popup, but It’s basically the same old “Your computer is at risk. Your credit card info is in danger, so we’re blocking your computer. Please call ____ to get help.” type of thing.

The number up there is the scam number, incase you didn’t realize that yet.

Oh, heads up: The guy at the phone currently is the worst human being on this planet. Have fun.

I tried to claim that I was from their IT department to try to remotely access their system. I got a few decent calls from that tagline, but they don’t seem to use TeamViewer, so I was unable to remotely access their machines, or recover any files. I then invented “scam tax”, and managed to frighten a scammer up to a point where they were willing to pay said “scam tax”, before telling them that they actually owed no money.

Long story short: These scammers seem fairly gullible, and you should be able to have a few good conversations with them. I also discovered that they use Go To Assist.

so i call the phone number https://phone.firertc.com/calls/5b391c38747563081b2a0000/recording

i just screamed hello into the phone