{"id":11749,"date":"2011-10-23T11:39:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T15:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11749"},"modified":"2011-10-23T11:41:16","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T15:41:16","slug":"what-to-do-when-tech-support-calls-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/10\/23\/what-to-do-when-tech-support-calls-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do when &#8220;Tech Support&#8221; calls you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/talesfromtechsupport\/comments\/kmi4p\/i_had_tech_support_call_me_today\/\" target=\"_blank\">crshbndct<\/a> recounts the heart-warming story of his recent call from &#8220;Tech Support&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Good Morning Sir, I am calling to inform you that you have serious issues with your pc and that we can help you fix them&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Really? I just got it working today (had been having a nightmare of a time with video drivers)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, Sir, but do not worry, we can help you to fix this problems&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Realising its a scam, but willing to play along)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh OK well that&#8217;s good. How are you going to do that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell Sir, Your computer runs a thing called Windows XP, which has many viruses and malware and rootkits and things like this which infect your master root on your CPU and slow it down and causes problems with your computer which can cost a lot to fix. We can help you fix this really cheaply\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cReally cheaply?!?! That sounds fantastic!! How do I do it?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>crshbndct recounts the heart-warming story of his recent call from &#8220;Tech Support&#8221;: &#8220;Good Morning Sir, I am calling to inform you that you have serious issues with your pc and that we can help you fix them&#8221; &#8220;Really? I just got it working today (had been having a nightmare of a time with video drivers)&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,9,15],"tags":[109,194,301],"class_list":["post-11749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-law","category-technology","tag-computers","tag-fraud","tag-newzealand"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-33v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11749"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11753,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11749\/revisions\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}