Can any of you tell, from the accent of this English, WHERE it comes from?

Ned Turnbull · 2014-08-27T06:58:58+00:00

Can any of you tell from whence this caller came from, based on his English accent (as he attempts to 'repair' my home Windows PC)? Here is a 3MB 30-minute MP4 recording of an unsolicited call today that I received from the ?Microsoft IT? department, telling me my computer was "sending reports" to them (this file kindly uploaded by Marek): I realized it was a scam within the first seconds, but I was surprised, that, at the 21:30 mark, the increasingly frustrated caller threatens to f* up my entire family (explicitly threatening my sister, my mother, my daughter, etc.). That first tirade lasted more than two minutes, from 21:30 to 23:50. Miraculously, the caller calmly resumes his attempt to get me to execute the Microsoft file, even going so far as to attempt to remotely log into my computer! Despite the fact the caller calms down after the first set of invectives, within 10 minutes, the caller repeats the threats against me and my family at the 32:24 mark to about 33:29, which is essentially the end of the recording. Here is a truncated 400KB 5-minute recording with chirps inserted into the removed (boring) sections: The first web site they had me go to was the following: - http:// www (dot) windowscare (dot) us Which brought me to: - http:// www (dot) windowscare (dot) us/ (Calling the listed phone number, +1-845-241-1234, just gets a computer- generated recording identifying itself as "Thank you for calling Windows Support ... please leave a message"). The domain is registered to "windows tech support" (all lower-case), which has a New York, NY, postal address. The caller then directed me to click on the green "Get Support" button at that web page, which downloaded a Windows executable file (into my Linux / tmp directory), which actually came from: - http:// www (dot) ammyy (dot) com The postal address for the ammyy domain is in Panama. The downloaded file was 764KB file, named: - 764184 Aug 26 09:28 AA_v3.exe $ md5sum...

Aug 27, 2014 60 Replies

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Michael A. Terrell 11 years ago

Them seeing blood and pus running down your legs is even faster. :(

Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to have a DD214, and a honorable discharge.

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