Posted April 02, 2014
Are you remotely related to the guy who had a female friend with a printer?
LoboBlanco
Blue saber Jedi
Registered: Jun 2012
From Uruguay
Sufyan
I'm the 0.999...
Registered: May 2011
From Sweden
Posted April 02, 2014
If the story ended with a blood splattered Mickey Mouse standing behind you, this would make a pretty good creepy pasta.
Moonbeam..
Grey Havens
Registered: Jan 2010
From South Africa
TwoHandedSword
Sharp tongue, rapier wit, cutting sense of humor
Registered: Sep 2011
From United States
Posted April 02, 2014
1. Your motherboard was deliberately manufactured with a built-in kill switch which can be activated through a network connection.
2. Your PSU was deliberately manufactured to support the kill-switch function, and to commit suicide when it is activated.
3. Your ADSL router was deliberately manufactured to send the kill-switch signal to your computer under specific circumstances and can be triggered via the phone line.
4. The scammers who made the phone call know all of these things and have access to them.
5. The scammers have decided that anyone who doesn't fall for the scam should have their computers set on fire.
What are the odds of all those things being true?
Fever_Discordia
Don't Panic
Registered: Nov 2010
From United Kingdom
Austrobogulator
~
Registered: Jan 2010
From Australia
Posted April 02, 2014
WHO WAS PHONE?
TwoHandedSword
Sharp tongue, rapier wit, cutting sense of humor
Registered: Sep 2011
From United States
Posted April 02, 2014
Post edited April 02, 2014 by TwoHandedSword
timppu
Favorite race: Formula__One
Registered: Jun 2011
From Finland
Posted April 02, 2014
If the phone was an old fixed line phone, a bit like that happened to me back in the 90s:
- The phone rang, or at least made a bit of sound. I didn't answer it so no idea if there would have been a free Disneyland trip for me too.
- Almost at the same instant, my desktop PC crashed, and gave an electric fire smell, just like you described. I rushed to shut down the PC at that point.
I understood the reason a second or two later, when I heard a "brrm-brrrm-brrm" sound from the sky. A lighting had struck, and had sent an electric shock through the phone line, which also reached my PC through the modem, and had made the phone ring.
My PC somehow survived it, but my modem was toast. I am not fully sure if the "electric fire smell" came from my PC or the modem, but as said, my PC crashed too. I recall it vividly as I was playing Ultima Underworld at that point, fully immersed into the game. And suddenly that ogre would just stop and make odd noise.
- The phone rang, or at least made a bit of sound. I didn't answer it so no idea if there would have been a free Disneyland trip for me too.
- Almost at the same instant, my desktop PC crashed, and gave an electric fire smell, just like you described. I rushed to shut down the PC at that point.
I understood the reason a second or two later, when I heard a "brrm-brrrm-brrm" sound from the sky. A lighting had struck, and had sent an electric shock through the phone line, which also reached my PC through the modem, and had made the phone ring.
My PC somehow survived it, but my modem was toast. I am not fully sure if the "electric fire smell" came from my PC or the modem, but as said, my PC crashed too. I recall it vividly as I was playing Ultima Underworld at that point, fully immersed into the game. And suddenly that ogre would just stop and make odd noise.
Post edited April 02, 2014 by timppu
Fever_Discordia
Don't Panic
Registered: Nov 2010
From United Kingdom
Posted April 02, 2014
I felt like such a tool, noob that I was back then. D'oh.
Mentao
Skull Leader
Registered: Jul 2012
From Panama
Posted April 02, 2014
It was no coincidence. It was fate.
The phone call was to save your life from being terminated by the flames in your PC.
Had you not answered the phone, you might be dead or with serious injury by now.
You should be grateful to the Powers That Be that you are still alive, harmless, and that no member of your family is actually injured (at least not for now).
Then again, my condolenses since I remember once I saw how my monitor died. It started making a scratching noise like wiring burning inside, then the screen shrinks to like an inverted triangle from the top middle to the center were the base (top of it since it was an inverted triangle) was around 1/16 if an inch. It kept making that scratching noise and then triangle started to shrink until the screen went completely blank and it ended with smoke coming out of it with the scratching noise no longer being heard.
What I really hated was that the warranty had expired 3 days ago.
The phone call was to save your life from being terminated by the flames in your PC.
Had you not answered the phone, you might be dead or with serious injury by now.
You should be grateful to the Powers That Be that you are still alive, harmless, and that no member of your family is actually injured (at least not for now).
Then again, my condolenses since I remember once I saw how my monitor died. It started making a scratching noise like wiring burning inside, then the screen shrinks to like an inverted triangle from the top middle to the center were the base (top of it since it was an inverted triangle) was around 1/16 if an inch. It kept making that scratching noise and then triangle started to shrink until the screen went completely blank and it ended with smoke coming out of it with the scratching noise no longer being heard.
What I really hated was that the warranty had expired 3 days ago.
Lionel212008
Hedonistic pig
Registered: Jan 2011
From Other
Posted April 02, 2014
It was a warning. Did you see some obscure videotape with a strange looking 'oriental' woman and some ol' timey well and Mel Gibson prattling around in a bear suit?.....
Either way, it is good practice to watch 'What women'want' like around 50 times and you must also walk around the neighborhood in women's clothing (especially one with a thong) while attempting to solicit a policeman if you intend to ward off the evil spirits.
Otherwise you would be dead like within a week.
(p.s: I am very very drunk and coping with the loss of a pet)
Either way, it is good practice to watch 'What women'want' like around 50 times and you must also walk around the neighborhood in women's clothing (especially one with a thong) while attempting to solicit a policeman if you intend to ward off the evil spirits.
Otherwise you would be dead like within a week.
(p.s: I am very very drunk and coping with the loss of a pet)
Post edited April 02, 2014 by Lionel212008
XYCat
The Fox says:
Registered: Dec 2009
From Christmas Island
Posted April 02, 2014
Your computer just got overexcited about the trip to the disneyland
happens all the time
happens all the time
@('_')@
Registered: Sep 2012
From United States
Posted April 02, 2014
The phone call was just a inconsiderate telemarketer or con artist. The flames that were inside your desktop PC is most likely from too much overclocking, leading to extremely high temperatures. The reason why your computer shut off was your hardware was trying to protect itself from catching on fire. Turning on your machine after that, was a big mistake. :( You should of let your desktop cool down...
Post edited April 02, 2014 by monkeydelarge
TwoHandedSword
Sharp tongue, rapier wit, cutting sense of humor
Registered: Sep 2011
From United States
Posted April 02, 2014
*pa-pa-pow!*
...but fails to explain the timing. And in battle...
*chop chop shweee!*
...timing is everything.
*ka-thwack!*
@('_')@
Registered: Sep 2012
From United States
Posted April 02, 2014
So I brace myself, and answer it.... and it's a fucking recording announcing I've "won" a trip to Disneyworld in FL. So I hang up the phone and my desktop goes down. Just stops. No shutdown, just boom, off. So now I start to smell something, and it smells..... like electrical fire ya know?? Like something electrical burned. So now I'm really wondering what the hell is going on, so I look at my desktop, it looks okay.....
So I press the button to power it back on. And I can see flames inside, and immediately let go of the button, and now the smell is even worse.
WHAT IN THE FUCK HAS JUST HAPPENED TO ME?????
No, this is NOT an April Fool joke, god how I wish it were. What in the holy fuck has just happened?? Can the NSA send some kind of signal over the phone to fry a targeted computer??? WHAT IN THE HOLY FUCK??? HAS ANYONE EVER IN ALL THEIR LIVES HEARD OF ANYTHING LIKE THIS????
*pa-pa-pow!*
...but fails to explain the timing. And in battle...
*chop chop shweee!*
...timing is everything.
*ka-thwack!*
Post edited April 02, 2014 by monkeydelarge