A guy called my dad and said he’d won a million dollars in a contest!

[erik@mastodon.infrageeks.social]

@neilk Keeping this one to use later...

[commonst@social.vivaldi.net]

@neilk I remember once getting into an argument with a guy calling about my Windows machine. I legitimately only had a Linux laptop. He called me a liar, and insisted I did, indeed have a Windows machine. I hung up on him.

[tedmielczarek@mastodon.social]

@neilk this is hands-down the best response I've heard of to an advance fee scam.

[daveosaurus@mastodon.nz]

@commonst @neilk I must have had the same guy a few years back. I gave him all the details of... an antique CP/M box I used for word-processing. "I don't believe you! You don't have a computer at all!" *click*

[krono@toot.berlin]

@neilk Smart.

[zerodime@equestria.social]

@commonst @neilk sounds like a scammer trying to get somehwere.

[commonst@social.vivaldi.net]

@zerodime @neilk for sure. He was just SO adament he knew what I had better than I did.

[zerodime@equestria.social]

@commonst @neilk because his victims are normaly unaware what kind of system/OS they have. "I have a computer, no I don'T have Windows." Rarely they get to someone who knows what's up and then it can get funny.

[c_dan4th@mstdn.social]

@neilk legend!

[senseexception@phpc.social]

@neilk That's a good one.