77 My Name Is Andy

The Computer Exorcist Podcast

Shoutout to listener Steve T who heard about me on the War Room with Jim Quinn. He said he loved these scammer episodes, so I'm dedicating this one to you.

The first one is a tech support scammer. My personal favorite moments:

• "What's your name again, young lady?" - "(Sigh) My name is Andy."
• "You don't need to subscribe the Twitter."
• "Do you have some hearing problem?"

The next one is a Geek Squad impersonator email; thanks to my client Tony the Insurance Guy for this one.

They send you a fake email that scares you into thinking you were billed for something. Then conveniently, they add: "To dispute, call this number." Well, I called.

• "I got an email that says Greek Squad."
• "I've never heard of Microsoft H."

I then tell him I'm an AOL user and play the dialup noises from the 1990s AOL experience. I can't imagine the look on his face.

• The guy eventually hung up, so I had to call his office back.
• These emails always come from fake names like "[e-mail]" since it's so incredibly easy for scammers to create Outlook accounts. So I called and asked for Florene and the guy went with it!

The final mini clip is one where they send a very fake email. Instead of zeroes in their evil phone number, they use the letter O, presumably to evade spam detection, or filter out smart people. I call them out on it.

• "Which bread is my computer?"
• "That would look nice if they put chrome on the computer, make it look shiny like the front of my car..."

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