Security expert scams scammers

[masraum]

This is awesome!!!

Security Expert Fools, Records Fake Antivirus Scammers - Dark Reading

Phony AV scammers posing as Microsoft dialed the wrong number when they inadvertently phoned a security researcher at home -- he exposes their obvious lack of technical know-how

[crustychief]

Nice.

[speeder]

Apparently these types of scams are a real problem. I had never heard of these until this week when my sister told me about getting a call from one. She decided to play along for a bit while he explained that he was from "Windows" and that her computers were infected. When she finally told him that they had all Macs, he abruptly hung-up.

She said that she has heard horror stories of elderly people in particular who fall for it and give up passwords, etc.