You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I can't tell you how many times I've had to spell my surname to people over the phone.
The best one was that my mum answered a call from someone claiming to be from Microsoft and said that her laptop needed fixing. She said that she was loading it up and put the phone down on the staircase and shut the living room door and tidied up for ten minutes. She then went back, was told "what to do" by the company, and again put the phone down on the stairs and continued to tidy up. She then went to the phone and said "Actually, I'm from the police and we're trying to trace this call." The man on the other end said "You are copper?!" and slammed the phone down.
the amount of times my surname is mistaken for "Almond" (and around here often followed up with "are you related to The Almond Brothers???") is truly absurd
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You know what makes me feel rather uncreative? I just called Centralian currency "dollars" and "cents" by default...
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
my experiences talking to people in actual legitimate Indian call centres have been entirely positive
unfortunately most of the times i'm talking to someone in India they're scammers cold-calling us, we get those a lot . . . i'm sure they wouldn't take the job if they had other options but i feel disinclined to be sympathetic when they're lying to us and trying to scam us
Their level of awareness seems to vary...
I've seen at least one YouTube video where the caller was surprised when the would-be victim called him out on the scam, because he was just following the script he'd been given and he actually believed that, for example, the error messages in Event Viewer were legitimately harmful.
On the other hand, I've also seen instances where, upon the would-be victim refusing to hand over credit card details, the scammer got mad and used the TeamViewer access to trash the files on the PC. So, uh, it can go either way, I guess?
The ones we get often hang up if you indicate that you know what they're talking about and aren't going to be fooled.
The last one i had kept insisting that the zfsendtotarget file extension was my 'computer ID' even after i told him i knew what it was and that it was nothing of the sort
eventually he muttered something at me, which i didn't understand but you couldn't mistake the tone, and then he hung up
The best one was that my mum answered a call from someone claiming to be from Microsoft and said that her laptop needed fixing. She said that she was loading it up and put the phone down on the staircase and shut the living room door and tidied up for ten minutes. She then went back, was told "what to do" by the company, and again put the phone down on the stairs and continued to tidy up. She then went to the phone and said "Actually, I'm from the police and we're trying to trace this call." The man on the other end said "You are copper?!" and slammed the phone down.
tl;dr my mum trolled an Indian call centre
heh
mentioning the police or the word 'scam' usually gets them to hang up
Name and word mispronounciation is a comedy gold mine to me (having heard some truly fucking absurd mispronunciations of, for example, Italian names, from Anglo-Saxons) but I can understand it being a touchy subject for people who actively suffer for being minorities. (I remember reading about call centers, etc. giving, for example, Indian employees made up white names to make it easier on their clients a few years ago.)
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
@Tachyon: One of the more clever variants I've seen involves walking the victim through the commands necessary to find something called a CLSID. They then say "This stands for 'Computer License Security ID', and uniquely identifies your computer. Only Microsoft and its certified technicians have access to this code." Then they read you out the code they have, and it matches the one on your screen, thus "proving" they're legitimate.
Of course, CLSID really stands for "Class Identifier" and is the same on every Windows PC.
i did wonder about that, because the scammers we get always introduce themselves with English names and that seemed statistically improbable otherwise
Do you live in the States? I wouldn't discount the possibility that there are a shit-ton of white people trying to pull scams out there, especially if they involve tech in any meaningful way.
just adopt the whole fucking British currency with all its weirdness
4 farthings to a penny, 12 pennies to a shilling, 20 shillings to a sovereign which has a value of 1 pound, 21 shillings to a guinea because inflation is weird
4 pennies are a groat, 2 shillings are a florin and 5 pennies are a crown, so half a crown is 2 and 6
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
i did wonder about that, because the scammers we get always introduce themselves with English names and that seemed statistically improbable otherwise
Do you live in the States? I wouldn't discount the possibility that there are a shit-ton of white people trying to pull scams out there, especially if they involve tech in any meaningful way.
@Tachyon: One of the more clever variants I've seen involves walking the victim through the commands necessary to find something called a CLSID. They then say "This stands for 'Computer License Security ID', and uniquely identifies your computer. Only Microsoft and its certified technicians have access to this code." Then they read you out the code they have, and it matches the one on your screen, thus "proving" they're legitimate.
Of course, CLSID really stands for "Class Identifier" and is the same on every Windows PC.
they did that, yes
and i was like, 'but this is the same on every computer' and he was like 'did you try it on 2 computers?' and i'm like, 'no but i know what it is'
and he was like 'YOU ARE WRONG, it is unique to your computer'
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
When Anonus and I were driving around town I turned down Pearl Street and I said "and Pearl~" and she said "AND STEVEN!"
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
*gives Jane a sack of Centralian pennies*
I'll warn you though, some of those are old enough to have Jeanette's face instead of mine
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Tachyon have you watched "St. Olga's Reform School For Wayward Princesses" yet?
Jane have you watched ANY Star Vs. the Forces of Evil episodes yet?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The episode set on Pony Head's birthday aired on my birthday
Thus I can only conclude that Pony Head and I share a birthday
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Guys! Guys! I figured out the Headmistress's network password!
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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tl;dr my mum trolled an Indian call centre
NO ONE. EVER.
Not "S-neeeeell". Or "S-nelllllllll".
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
The last one i had kept insisting that the zfsendtotarget file extension was my 'computer ID' even after i told him i knew what it was and that it was nothing of the sort
eventually he muttered something at me, which i didn't understand but you couldn't mistake the tone, and then he hung up heh
mentioning the police or the word 'scam' usually gets them to hang up
Get a bit of anachronism in there.
I bet I did!
4 farthings to a penny, 12 pennies to a shilling, 20 shillings to a sovereign which has a value of 1 pound, 21 shillings to a guinea because inflation is weird
4 pennies are a groat, 2 shillings are a florin and 5 pennies are a crown, so half a crown is 2 and 6
and they always have a distinctly Indian accent
and i was like, 'but this is the same on every computer' and he was like 'did you try it on 2 computers?' and i'm like, 'no but i know what it is'
and he was like 'YOU ARE WRONG, it is unique to your computer'
(also ten pence was less than a shilling :p)
...food based currency could be pretty interesting actually, make its monetary value directly tied to its caloric value.
50 gil or no deal
i probably have a couple episodes to watch now, and maybe i think a Gravity Falls as well?
works for me, Jane
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
9 of those for 10p! i should have accepted
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead