Business Failures

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(10-10-2016, 12:37 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: nst the scammers. I've seen versions with both these fake "IRS" clowns as well as the fake "Microsoft" clowns. Some of them are very creative. Of course, the perpetual 13 year old in me likes the ones where, after stringing along the scammer for a half hour, one of those emergency aerosol can air horns gets placed right next to the phone mic and blasted.

My inner child strings M$ "support" by stringing them along with my Linux box.   They ask me to run some Windows app to share my desktop.  Since there is no such animal in Linux, I ask them where it is on my Unbuntu desktop.

Like this.

Them:  go to the start menu.

Me:  Uhhhh.... where is the start menu?

Them:  click on the bottom right of the monitor.

Me: Uhhhhhh.... I clicked, but nothing happened.

Them: <getting a bit annoyed> What's on your monitor.

Me: Firefox icon, Unbuntu application menu, Linux update icon, and Xterm.

Them: We'll have to disconnect you from the internet if you can't share the desktop.

Me:  You can't because I'm running Linux

Them: We're going to disconnect you from the internet.

Me: Fuck you, go ahead and disconnect away.

Them: <click>

I toss the IRS folks a SSN of 666-01-0203