papermint tiger
OH MY GOD fuckign SCAMMERS
papermint tiger
I woke up to an email from 'Mcafee' telling me my account had been 'chosen' for an autorenewal
papermint tiger
to the tune of $399.99
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naturally i called them right away (i am not the best at critical thinking when i first wake up okay)
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and some Indian guy answered which was my first hint... adn then he said the wrong number of years when i gave him the 'confirmation number'
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also now that i think about it he didn't pause before he said it, usually they have to look up your info
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or say my name/email either
papermint tiger
anyway i finally noticed the email was from Mcafee-24 and not Mcafee,com
papermint tiger
fucking scammers
papermint tiger
i likely wouldn't have been so easily fooled but my computer came with a Mcafee account i've been ignoring almost since i bought it and they've been trying to get me to 'reup' past the free trial it came with
𝔯𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔟𝔬𝔴 𝔭𝔦𝔯𝔞𝔠𝑦~
yeaahhhh
𝔯𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔟𝔬𝔴 𝔭𝔦𝔯𝔞𝔠𝑦~
I get a bunch of those scams :/
𝔯𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔟𝔬𝔴 𝔭𝔦𝔯𝔞𝔠𝑦~
I'm glad you didn't give them any personal info tho it's easy to do
papermint tiger
yeaaah, luckily i wised up
papermint tiger
the guy wanted me to get on my computer and open my browser and i'm very leery about doing that crap
tronja307020
See, that's when I woulda started fuckin' with 'em. But I can understand not having the patience.
papermint tiger
I do not have the patience nor the skills to lie about this stuff lmao
gᥲtᥱkᥱᥱρᥱr
oh I don't lie I just put them on hold
gᥲtᥱkᥱᥱρᥱr
last time this sort of thing happened to me they called me while walking my dog. I was almost home. I told him that. then I sat down on a bench and waited.
gᥲtᥱkᥱᥱρᥱr
you don't need to be very smart or quick to waste their time, just act dumber than them.
papermint tiger
I just hung up on him tbh
gᥲtᥱkᥱᥱρᥱr
that's a good choice
tronja307020
Yep. There's no sense in dragging it out if you don't enjoy wasting their time. lol
gᥲtᥱkᥱᥱρᥱr
I like to do it because I've noticed I don't hear from them again after. I used to get off the phone as quickly as possible and they'd call me several times a week
tronja307020
I tried for a while. They didn't stop much. It would abate for a day or so before they would be back to calling me. 20 times a day.
tronja307020
And I work overnights.
gᥲtᥱkᥱᥱρᥱr
yikes I've never had it that bad. at least not ones I've answered. I get those "scammer likely" calls but I just don't answer them since I never use my phone as a phone anyway
tronja307020
ah yeah, see, I was getting those a lot, and got fed up, so I started answering them to see if they'd get the hint. Nope. It got worse. So I just blocked all "scammer likely" calls.
gᥲtᥱkᥱᥱρᥱr
yeah I just don't answer them. I was dealing with this before phones did that and now I just don't answer my phone unless it says mom. everyone else texts me lmao
papermint tiger
The one I've been dealing with the longest is a racket that was trying to ask for donations for cops, veterans, firefighters, a few other things
papermint tiger
They finally seem to have stopped but that was just because I stopped answering the ones with those area codes
papermint tiger
I also gave them money a few times so they clearly saw me as an easy mark
papermint tiger
I mean I hope they got taken down entirely, but I don't know
gᥲtᥱkᥱᥱρᥱr
yeah you giving them money puts you on their list
papermint tiger
Yeaaaah. I was fooled by those for a while until I realized that a. They all had the exact same script, just replace the name of whatever they were asking money for
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And b. One of them told me that I had given money to them 'last year' and then argued with me when I was like no, it was just a month or two ago
gᥲtᥱkᥱᥱρᥱr
was it January.
gᥲtᥱkᥱᥱρᥱr
LMAO
papermint tiger
Nah it was like. September