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Re: I am calling from Microsoft and we detected an issue with your win installation

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Post by rinchik » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 10:33 PM UTC

ct0 wrote: post #6

rinchik wrote: post #5

Extremely inhumane and cruel! Similar to punishing poachers for barely making a living and not the black industry/market. Some poor man/woman on the other side of the line probably lost a day of work because of this! The best thing to do with these scammers is to ignore.

I disagree, they know what they are doing. Also, check out Kitboga https://www.twitch.tv/kitboga if you like this kind of revenge. He literally plays the old woman that the scammers, yes scammers are trying to steal from. These scammers have no morals and deserve everything coming at them.

Would you steal a loaf of bread to feed your family? Because these are the true conditions they work in.

Re: I am calling from Microsoft and we detected an issue with your win installation

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Post by sctb » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 10:38 PM UTC

Meepp wrote: post #10

Meepp wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i would downvote but a cant yet so let this be sufficient: Sir Rinchik, I cast my Downvote on you.

thank you for the downvote rinchik. i downvote you again.

Please none of this business here. Comment civilly and substantively or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: I am calling from Microsoft and we detected an issue with your win installation

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Post by mobiliakas1 » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 10:47 PM UTC

rinchik wrote: post #5

Extremely inhumane and cruel! Similar to punishing poachers for barely making a living and not the black industry/market. Some poor man/woman on the other side of the line probably lost a day of work because of this! The best thing to do with these scammers is to ignore.

I disagree. They said they have encrypted some files on the scammers computer by planting supposed banking credentials which they did copy without any consent. Having watched some similar experiences in YouTube I can say theft of banking credentials or personal data is commonplace. They probably did prevent misuse of some stolen banking or personal information.

Re: I am calling from Microsoft and we detected an issue with your win installation

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Post by mobiliakas1 » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 10:49 PM UTC

rinchik wrote: post #11

ct0 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree, they know what they are doing. Also, check out Kitboga https://www.twitch.tv/kitboga if you like this kind of revenge. He literally plays the old woman that the scammers, yes scammers are trying to steal from. These scammers have no morals and deserve everything coming at them.

Would you steal a loaf of bread to feed your family? Because these are the true conditions they work in.

If a person would steal my banking credentials there is absolutely no doubt I would do everything to prevent them using it.

Re: I am calling from Microsoft and we detected an issue with your win installation

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Post by DyslexicAtheist » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 10:57 PM UTC

module0000 wrote: post #4

More of this please!

here (old but gold DEFCON18 talk) Pwned By The Owner: What Happens When You Steal A Hacker's Computer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwpg-AwJ0Jc

Re: I am calling from Microsoft and we detected an issue with your win installation

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Post by 3R3130R » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 11:02 PM UTC

mobiliakas1 wrote: post #13

rinchik wrote: post #5

Extremely inhumane and cruel! Similar to punishing poachers for barely making a living and not the black industry/market. Some poor man/woman on the other side of the line probably lost a day of work because of this! The best thing to do with these scammers is to ignore.

I disagree. They said they have encrypted some files on the scammers computer by planting supposed banking credentials which they did copy without any consent. Having watched some similar experiences in YouTube I can say theft of banking credentials or personal data is commonplace. They probably did prevent misuse of some stolen banking or personal information.

its possible they unintentionaly gave a scammer a sample of ransomware code they could then reverse engineer. the results could be an asymetric irony. they could have made the scammer even more formidable.

Re: I am calling from Microsoft and we detected an issue with your win installation

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 11:08 PM UTC

rinchik wrote: post #5

Extremely inhumane and cruel! Similar to punishing poachers for barely making a living and not the black industry/market. Some poor man/woman on the other side of the line probably lost a day of work because of this! The best thing to do with these scammers is to ignore.

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Re: I am calling from Microsoft and we detected an issue with your win installation

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Post by ct0 » Wed, Jan 09, 2019, 3:50 PM UTC

rinchik wrote: post #11

ct0 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree, they know what they are doing. Also, check out Kitboga https://www.twitch.tv/kitboga if you like this kind of revenge. He literally plays the old woman that the scammers, yes scammers are trying to steal from. These scammers have no morals and deserve everything coming at them.

Would you steal a loaf of bread to feed your family? Because these are the true conditions they work in.

These people are not stealing bread from a baker/corporation, they are stealing bread from an individual who worked for that bread and is currently feeding their family with it. The situation the scammers create is based on lies.