On 20/07/2018 14:22, Mayayana wrote:
"Ed Cryer" wrote

| I've used a technique with spam callers who start with something like
| "Hello. And how are you today?"
| It consists of completely monopolising the conversation. They're paying
| for it; you can have a captive audience.
|

The only problem with that is that it's likely you're
talking to someone in India who's being paid pennies
and will gladly keep you on the line for hours if there's
a chance of getting you hacked. In the meantime, it's
not really their time you're wasting. It's yours.
It might be a good strategy for elderly people
living alone, though.



IME they're mostly not trying to hack you. They're trying to convince
you that your PC is dying/seriously infected and that you need to pay
them money for them to fix it and look after it in the future.

--

Brian Gregory (in England).