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I had a moment with one of these around 2010. Car insurance scam and these weren’t in the news all the time. Much lower pressure and I still had my card in my hand before I thought to ask what model car I had. He hung up.
I had the complete opposite experience with a client where the scammer kept telling me to click on the Start menu even after I goaded him by telling him we were on a Mac. No ability to shift the scheme.
The scams are run by professional call centers. Sometimes as a side business of an otherwise normal call center. The people working there are call center workers. They have a script and they follow the script. They could have no knowledge of the underlying tech at all.
Next time when you're done with them, call them bhenchod. It means sisterfucker, very versatile swearing word in many Indian languages.
Because it's unexpected?