24 Minutes : IT Skammer vs IT department. The day he tried to phone skam an IT expert… (feat music from Orbital)

“24 Minutes” – Please distribute to friends – don’t get caught out by this skam!

This is a very common IT phone Skam but unfortunately the phone skammer didn’t realise he was calling an IT department. We decided to play the “game” of a non-IT user before exposing him as a Skam. There is some information on the Skam itself at the end of the film.

Note: These skammers will invest a lot of time just to get what they want. Even with all the obvious jokes and blatant insults they still carried on trying. The phone call was a total of 24 minutes but we only started recording part way through. We had already had a conversation about a firewall, in which we related it to the wall outside the house. This person thought he was dealing with a complete thicko by this time.

p.s. There is a little bit of ORBITAL at the beginning and at the end of the film, from the forthcoming album WONKY

p.p.s. Yes that is Loopz doing the talking

http://www.loopzorbital.com/blog/?p=1316

Scam

Noun - A dishonest scheme, a fraud

Verb - Swindle

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Skam

Noun - A record label

lol @ "some bloody lottery"

a mate of mine had one of these calls in the latter part of last year. I've had to warn my mom about these calls because she would definitely fall for this.

lol skam

Hello sir, would you like some new Gescom. Just gimme your credit card number.

i hope you noticed the Skam logo appear in the video ...it's all part of the play on words :)

yeah, was good. shame you couldn't string him along more :p

  On 3/25/2012 at 12:59 AM, oscillik said:

yeah, was good. shame you couldn't string him along more :p

Yeah that was my only disappointment too - you revealed things a little too early.

If I ever get a call I'm gonna see if I get the guy to find his way around my OS:

Yeah, i wish i was in one of the meeting rooms but i was in an open plan office and people were coming to the department because of the laughing. I had to fess up by then :)

Well done this is hilarious

I always love these types of videos

The Indian man clearly has no idea what he's talking about. It's especially funny considering there are so many better ways to gain remote access than things like Ammyy or Teamviewer, etc. I was half expecting him to send you to some ratted java driveby link but Ammyy, come on lol amateur.

Computer security should probably be a mandatory topic in schools nowadays and more info should be spread around to the elderly as well who would easily fall for these scams