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Today The Hotel Owner and The Company's Accountant Will Get a Lesson | r/ProRevenge
About a decade ago, I had someone try to pull a scam on me. At that time, I lived in a 2 bedroom apartment that was in an old Victorian house that had been converted into 5 apartments. Our water and heat was included in the rent, per lease. So.... 1 Sunday afternoon I get a call from someone telling me that I owe $275.00 on my water bill. Yes, exactly $275.00. LOL!! He told me that if I didn't pay my bill, my water would be turned off. So I tell him to go ahead and shut off the water. I then hang up. I then called my landlord and tell him what happened. He laughed himself into what sounded like an asma attach. He was in his 70's at this time.
Do you mean Asthma ?
Yes, f'ed up that I misspelled it, I have it. Texting and beer don't mix. Sorry.
I used to be a raido announcer back in the 70's and have kept up my radio voice faily well. When I get those scammer, no caller ID, calls I answer, "Hello! And Welcome to Movie Phone!" in my most professional excited voice. And sometimes I will put my phone next to my TV or Radio Speaker and let it play in my phone like it's going into a Movie Commercial. Many of you know the routine! And 99 out of 100 will hang up right then and there and never call back. I save all scammer call to a Scammer ID file so that if they call again it ID's them as a SCAM call.
Kinda Fun!
My wife just bust out laughing when she hears me say it.
My friends know the trick and will say "Hey It's me, So and So" and we start talking.
Hi RedWheel hope you are well. Thanks for sharing. Hi everyone hope you are all well and safe to. Please have a great day. 🏴😷😁👍.
For those of us who remember those old days, and to simplify it, MSDOS was an operating system that you could run manual commands from your keyboard. Sorry, no mouse will work on it. I remember this because these were the systems I taught myself on, back during the 1980's. Deleting the root directory basically means "you're screwed" and you have to reinstall the OS from the original installation disks. Reformatting the hard drive just wipes everything from the PC and there is no "restore to a previous installation" feature available in MSDOS. Not even a boot disk will fix this problem. You would need to reinstall the original software from installation disks.
irst computer I owned ran MSDOS. I had worked with mainframes before in college programming classes, but at that point in 1984 I was at a Silicon Valley startup where virtually everyone who had a desk in an office or a cubicle also had a computer as well. All DOS. Plus the company had a 50-50 purchase plan; we could order a computer thru the company, pay hall the price up front, with the other half vested by the company over 2 yrs (it was treated as income for tax purposes). I got 3 different computers thru that company's 50-50 plan the 8 yrs I worked there, and the first two of those ran DOS. By the time I got the 3rd one, folks were running Windows 3.1. So yeah I knew what OP was doing with the commands..
Funny thing; at that company I worked for, we had a couple of cubicles that had 4 computers in them for some of the few folks to use who didn't have a computer of their own to use. And one gal who didn't know what she was doing wanted to format a box of floppy disks. These were the 5.25" disks at the the time; the 3.5"" disks weren't common yet.
So I vaguely watched when she went into the cubicle, sat down, and stuck a blank disk in the floppy drive and typed , at the C:\ prompt, 'Format,' then hit enter. She did NOT enter the drive letter for the drive where she had inserted the disk, and as old DOS hands will tell you, this automatically assumes the drive that the user is currently in the directory of. In this case, root directory of the hard drive. Took the floppy out, inserted another. Typed 'format' again and hit enter, nothing happened. She frowned and moved to another computer and did the same thing, this is when I REALLY noticed her, as my desk was across from the computer cube. Then I saw her get up and move to a THIRD computer. So I said, "Uh, what's happening?" So she told me.
I said, "stop right there" and put a call in to the IT manager. He groaned and came over, his install disks in hand, to reinstall DOS as well as the OTHER software the company had site licenses for on the computers whose hard drives she'd inadvertently formatted.
While he grumbled and reinstalled, I informed her what she'd done wrong--and she nearly died of embarrassment.
I learned enough just casually helping out or paying attention to anyone who worked on any computer I had issues with those few years, that one of the guys who always helped me later nicknamed me "Hacker" (I wasn't LOL, just someone willing to learn so I knew what any problem might be), and many years later that knowledge led to me being IT manager at a small software company in the Valley.
@@adriennegormley9358 I owned Commodore computers (Vic 20, C-64, and C128) to start with. My first PC was an IBM with two 5.25" drives and no hard drive. My BIL donated it to us since he had upgraded his PC to a newer IBM. My kids learned to use all the computers we had and they really enjoyed the experience.
Actually if you delete everything in the root directory, there is a way to restore the system without reloading and MSdos. If you have a bootable floppy disk with the same version operating system, just boot from floppy. Enter the following commands sys c:\ once the hard drive and floppy disk drive stop flashing and you can touch the keyboard and get a response then do this; copy command.com c:\ remove the floppy disk and reboot the computer. At this point you'll just have to retype your config.sys and Autoexex.bat I'm going to have to set up an MS-DOS system. I still have all the hardware. The way I beat the crap out of my computers with software and hardware figuratively not literally I add multiple option setup in my and config.sys. when I would turn the computer on it would prompt me to tell it how y'all was planning to use the computer. I had optimizations for gaming, graphics, sound editing, and windows 3.0/3.1/3.11. Windows 3x wasn't as spiffy as what we have today but I'd rather run it than the crap that passes for Windows today. I don't want an operating system that does everything. Believe it or not other people figured out how to burn CDs better than Microsoft ever has done it. Graphics are best done with a dedicated program. Music editing is best done with music editing software. If I wanted a freaking Mac I would buy a freaking Mac. I don't see the point in spending that kind of money when I can go and take an old PC and load Linux on it and get most of what's on a Mac for free. At least 40% of the software you pay for on a Macintosh or apple based computer, are licensed from a Linux developer and they put a new wrapper on it but the back side the guts of the software is the same. For example Safari, known in the Linux world as conqueror.
@@adriennegormley9358 what kind of mainframes did you work on? I worked on burrows and Unisys computers. Their medium system lineup B4800, B4900, V380, V510/30/60 CP3680(reskinned HP1000) HP1000 and a sundry of peripherals, keypunch, and a beast called a mitrom. From there I went to desktop computers from doss on up to Windows 3X, NT4, 2K and Windows XP. Then moved on to register systems and their peripherals and handheld equipment. I love the work up until my last job before I retired. That place was a hell hole of circular argument. It was the worst place I worked in my entire life. That includes doing dishes and a place called Morrison's cafeteria and international House of pancakes. I would rather do those two jobs and work at the last place I worked. I work for idiots that had no place in management and had no clue how to run an operation that size.
@@Harry-zz2oh my first computer was a Tandy model III 16 KB of RAM! Extended basic! Whoot! No floppy drives, no hard drives everything was done on cassette tape. I also had a Tandy line printer 7. Undirectional 9 pin printer without descenders. I was at a store and there was a closeout on Coleco Adam if you've never heard of that one it was essentially a gaming console that went rogue and decided to be a computer! It came with cassette tapes but they weren't like your normal audio tapes they ran like the mag tapes on a mainframe you know going back and forth. It was kind of weird how they did things on the tape the center of the tape would be the starting point and it would ride data equally to either side. So the tape was always spinning back and forth. A little slower than the floppy disk you know like five and a quarter double density. And then I found a Timex Sinclair that you can hook up to your TV for 10 bucks new in the box. And the rest is history. I've had a lot of Intel chips up until I discovered the AMD k62 500 for its time a really beast of a chip. From that point I always have Intel processors with very rare exceptions. Usually someone gives me a computer and it has an Intel on it and they don't want it anymore so I strip it down cleaning it up reload it after wiping the drive. Depending on the age of the system and its capabilities all either reloaded with whatever version of Windows was on it or I'll put Linux on it because Linux will run faster and software is not a problem. If a friend has a system go down I toss them a tower or a desktop and tell them it's all yours. I do the same with monitors and stuff but not so much now that I'm retired.
I'll have to remember that last one, sounds like a fun time! I just say they've reached the Criminal law office of ( such-n- such ) and bam they hang up quickly!🤣
Had one of those calls a few weeks ago and as in the story, pushed "1". I could hear them talking in to background, couldn't understand anything they were saying so I just stayed on the line for a few minutes wondering if they would realize the line was open. Never did. Just hung up and haven't received one since. Don't know if that would work for all the scammers but it worked for me. The robo call stated my Amazon account had been hacked. Don't have an Amazon account!
hmjmm . . . I'll have to keep the open line tactic in mind!
@@MedOKC I used to get the calls from the "IRS" saying I owed thousands in taxes. So I called the IRS and asked them about it. They said I was fine and it was a scam. When they called again I answered and got the guy on the other end so frustrated he was swearing and got really nasty. I just laughed and kept it going. Have never had one of those calls since. I love messing with them!
Well... That scamner story is one of best that i've heard 😂😂😂
yeah somebody with a great sense of humour.
Yeah...that was a good one! I wonder who walked in on the scammer....guess we'll never know.
@@ginalahue8694 😁😀
Ok I’ll
Yeah. I loved that one too. AK-47. I already have one. Lol
I will take three AK 47s to go, please
😎time for my nap. Thank you, Red Wheel for making our day. 🏅
Hello RedWheel, I loved the last story. You really bring out the fun in it. It made me laugh out loud 😄 x
I usually just hang up, however, that is one of the shortest and sweetest revenges on a scammer that I've ever heard. LOL
"you idiot! SLAP,, bip bip bip" that last one was a good one for sure hahaha
Last story. . . I'm in Australia and I get about 1 or 2 of these scam calls every month.
Mostly I can't be bothered - so I just start swearing at them in Hindi until THEY hang up on ME
(There are some EXCELLENT websites that have *ALL* the nasty words you need) YES! I DO have a little list of Hindi swear words next to my computer for just these occasions.
But occasionally I like to string them along.
The name I always give them is Bogan Rootrat (Bogan root-rat) "It's a traditional name in my family . . Yes, my father and grandfather were both bogans as well"
"We're all very proud to be Rootrats!"
All the Aussies will understand what that means. . . .
Who else (40+) is singing “Harper Valley PTA” in their head? 😀
So what if I am? You gonna gossip about me? 🤣
Anyway, OP's mom socked it to those "Harper Valley hypocrites." 😉
That was my first thought on that one. 😆
Hey I’m only 34
I'm 35, still love the song and the movie
@@pugsabi did you see the TV show as well?
I was actually just thinking of the TV show the other day, don't know why.
My favorite name on the credit card: Rufus T. Firefly.
Theatre people being asked to sign for things above their pay grade have a curious sense of humor.
Last story good on him for leading scanners on like that . My friend got supposed phone calls from the place .With a name like the river in Brazil which are on line only . Saying she owed them money . Well she un politely told them to f their faces . She got four calls and she said same thing each time . The calls have stopped. Lucky they only had her house phone number . But she's in her 70s no mobile phone laptop or Internet access . Wouldnt even know how to switch one on . Im gonna see if I can get her a whistle . As she's still shielding at moment Even though we're out of lockdown in UK now .. To blow down the phone that would blow the bs eardrums out .Serves the bs right. Oh and I put a warning out on Facebook for my friends to tell their elderly relatives and friends about this scam .
Good night in my country redwheel😀😀
That last one was PRICELESS.
Then again I do loves to mess with those scammers minds myself so...
9:45 Did OP's female friend who got the electrical company gang to come stay in the hotel ever get any reasonable portion of her dues?
Love your videos Red Wheel! Keep them up!
lol love the stories but especially the last one lmao 😂 . I had some thing similar happen to me a long time ago hadn’t had my computer for long got a call and some one said they detected a problem . I asked him how to fix it he said a couple things I acted like I was following his directions and at the almost end of the conversation he said so what is the screen showing I told him a picture of a jack butt just like him he hung up fast 😂👍 wasted time and money for him me I loved it 😂😐👍
Hey RW, thanks for another great post. Love you channel brother, my favorite story teller.
Happy new week all!
I love the sound of Redwheel in the morning/
The PTA story reminds me of Harper Valley PTA, and Ronald McDonald with an AK-47 reminds me of Weird Al's The Night Santa Went Crazy....
What a musical episode
Love, love, LOVE that last one!
The story about the hotel in receivership.
Being a mostly self taught IT nerd, I was engaged by friends of a friend to *fix* their POS system that had crashed.
Like the one in the story the "Server and the POS computer" were MS DOS machines. The backups were nonexistent as the last time the system had been backed up was at least 10 yrs prior when it had been installed. Fun fact magnetic storage media floppy disks or tape degrades over time and eventually the tape or disk drive either can't find anything or returns garbage.
I found a new POS System for less than $2000 and recommended they purchase that directly (so they would know I wouldn't be uncharging them) and, I would set it up for $15 hr.
Nope they bought a cash register with a barcode scanner and decided they would limp along with that.
I had a similar experience with another business that had been backing up their system regularly. The only problem was they were using one tape, the same tape that had come with the tape machine.
That tape had been reused to "backup" the system for over 10 yrs.
Love the PTA story.
We have 4 kids. We felt it was necessary for us to be active in our kids schools.
Best part... i ended up being president(lol)...and my name is Karen.
We raised enough money to buy school supplies, added a larger budget for free lunches, got money in every teachers' hand; for their individual classrooms.
So, yes; some PTAs are freaking toxic... Gets worse in in jr/middle and high schools... But... A few good people can make a difference.
Good morning RedWheel !
I'm old enough (just barely mind) to have had to use dos. Unit around 2006, windows had to be installed overtop dos and you could still do what OP did from dos. There were not, 'are you sure?' prompts because it was assumed that if you knew the commands you also were aware of any consequences. Honestly the IT people saying it was super hackers sounds more like they didn't want to admit they didn't know how it happened and suspected but didn't want to say they suspected a Pebkac error. (a fake tech jargon term basically calling the person an idiot. It stands for Problem exists between keyboard and chair)
LOL that last story! 🤣🤣
Good morning, Redwheel ♍️☮️💜
HAHAAH thank you for reading my scammer story!
A morning to be good on I believe RedWheel
Hello friends
RedCat has posted again!! :-)
Perfect way to start the day
LOL ! The last one was hilarious!
If you ever want to freak out a phone scammer, search for a scream sound clip and bookmark it. When the scammer starts their crap, press play wait until the scream plays and say, "sorry don't have time to chat, There is a pedo locked in my basement and I have to get back to cutting his toes off. Busy busy day." I don't get scam calls, but If I do, this is what I'd do.
Good job
That scammer story!!! Omg I think I cracked a rib laughing !!! My dogs are looking at me like, 'yup, mama lost it again '. LMAO
TGI McChillibees LOL
About the last story, I really had a good chuckle about it! Thanks RedWheel for your hilarious way to read them masterly👏👏👍❤️
The buffet story makes no sense. A place with that strong of a Union would have shredded the management for denying her bonus, specially if written in her contract. But it could also be BS.
Mwuh mah ah i strive to be #13. My plan is falling into place. Good morning Redwheel
I'm late for a very important date
Story time stamps in description plz
Lovely afternoon pro-revenge!!
Anyone who watches @ScammerRevolts knows the scammer's boss called him a "benchod."
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AK47😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hello
We need to purge all PTAs and HOAs
I don't understand the AK47 purchase..
It's a gun.
@@dizzysdoings no shit..
The scammer story was actually mine. Guy woke me up so i decided to have fun with him. I was going total improv on his ass and thinking off the cuff. He asked me for the latest purchase on my so called credit card so i popped off with the most bizarre thing i could think of- an AK 47 - like who actually has one of those outside of the military! LMAO. I kind of expected him to catch on at that point- apparently his boss had been listening because thats when the fun ended.
@@WaiferThyme I see, you must not be american.. an ak47 is the most popular rifle in the world, and buying one with a credit card is probably not uncommon. That's why I didn't get it.
@@patrickbateman3082 ohhhh haha no I'm Canadian!
Was it in Harper Valley ???!!
The shit was spends.....
Well, English are hard I guess.
I love the scammer call! Thanks for the laugh.
"Yes, that's the card sir. What was your last purchase?"
Your Momma.
*Surprise Pikachu Face*
Dam my ak is missing.
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Second
Lolllllll,that last one was AWESOME
in the last story for situations like this I always answer the phone with something different everytime and have as much fun with them as I can my favorite one is County Sheriffs Office Fraud & Cyber Division Detective Dover Speaking