There are two kinds of fool who respond to these scams.
Type one is the sought after non-IT aware individual who believes the scammer. All the publicity hasn't penetrated their skulls, there's nothing more to be done but leave it to Darwinism to eliminate them from the gene pool as a result of their ensuing financial ruin.
Type two is well represented here. Proudly detail how you scammed the scammer and bore everyone rigid in the process.
The bottom line is that if you engage with them at all then you have been scammed.
The scammers are based in a low wage economy, their targets are affluent. The scammer may be on USD1 per hour. Their targets (us) will regard USD10 per hour as poor. The time you are wasting by engaging with them in conversation and then boasting how much of the callers time you wasted telling the world adds up to hundreds of dollars of your and your bored audience's time wasted.
Put the phone down, do something constructive and shut the f*k up about how smart you were to scam the scammer.
(Type 3 is me wasting 10 minutes on this fully aware that nobody will take a blind bit of notice, far better use the call as an excuse to create a story to boost your own ego.)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
