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Just managed to keep one on the line for almost 6 minutes with my iPad, before he got bored with me telling him I don't have a "4 flag windows key". Impressed that he kept going when I told him I don't have a keyboard, though I guess there are Windows tablets. Best bit was when he asked "do you know computer?", to which I very nearly answered "yes I'm an IT professional", but thought I'd try and string him along a bit more!
...really must get myself a VM ready for the next one. Any suggestions for what I should put in it to worry them when I give access to it? A background image saying something about scammers?
hang up before they start talking.
Why not give the machine a hostname like:
"NSA_HONEYPOT_SCAM_TRAP"
...or similar?
A background image saying something about scammers?
I doubt if that would do any good. I let them into a VM with a browser open on the Microsoft page about scammers; you'd have thought they'd get the message but they carried on regardless.
[quote=Rio uttered]I doubt if that would do any good. I let them into a VM with a browser open on the Microsoft page about scammers; you'd have thought they'd get the message but they carried on regardless.
That sounds like the sort of thing I'm after - not really worried about "doing any good", just wasting their time, and enjoying myself in the process. I should presumably be able to run Fiddler or Wireshark whilst I'm at it to log all the traffic from them (and maybe try and do something funny with it - I guess it might be possible to frustrate by stopping some of the packets).
You really have the time in your life for that?
It's not just wasting their time it is wasting yours, there are already far too many things in this world I would like to do and don't have the time for.
6 minutes that could have been used to make a really nice sandwich.
They'll trawl through your file system. A folder called something like "bank details" full of copies of EICAR might keep them amused for a while.
Lock it down, so they can't install software or run things like event viewer.
No, wait.
Linux.
make a cracking sandwich.
Another item added to the list of future ambitions, where will I find the time 😐
[quote=Jamie uttered]6 minutes that could have been used to make a really nice sandwich.
I had the phone on speaker whilst I did other stuff.
[quote=Cougar uttered]Lock it down, so they can't install software or run things like event viewer.
Hence a VM - no point if they can't do anything with it. Linux no good, as our conversation stalled on him getting me to press the "windows key".
6 minutes that could have been used to make a really nice [s]sandwich[/s] baby
I had the phone on speaker whilst I did other stuff.
I preferred it when I opined 🙁
I had the phone on speaker whilst I did other stuff.
left or right hand used?
Hence a VM - no point if they can't do anything with it.
Yeah, I know - I was suggesting wrong-footing them, making them work for it. Take a screenshot of the desktop, set it as your wallpaper and hid all the icons, that sort of thing.
Ah, I get you now - and a good idea, thanks! Though no point in going to far as they're clearly working from a script - just wondering if there's any way to get them to install something on their computer...