
Re: I let the scammers in once...
The game was up when they pressured me for a credit card and I refused. I should have had a disposable card number ready from privacy.com, see how much money they would try to take.
I watched a YT of a Brit security researcher who had a VM ready-n-waiting for calls like this. (He even made sure the VM had different icons and shortcuts all over so as not to arouse suspicion.)
The "jewel" of them all was an icon of a JPEG file. The JPEG file was a trojan horse. Click that and the worm will spread throughout the network and encrypt every friggin file. And to make it worth the scammer's time, the JPEG file was called "creditcard".
One day, he got a scam call. As proof of payment, he sent the "picture of my credit card" to the scammers. The last thing the Brit heard from the scammer were "oh, no. What is going on? Why did you do that? What did you just sent me?" And the line went dead.