[SWLUG] Scam phone calls

[Neil Greenwood]

Last time I had one of those calls, they couldn't cut me off quick enough
when I said I was running Linux!

Neil.

P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone.
On Apr 25, 2012 1:29 AM, "Neil Jones" <neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> This one will amuse you, I hope.
> I as at my parents' place recently. My father has a windows machine
> which I help him with occasionally. He has a phone extension next to it.
> I was sitting there actually preparing to run a virus scan on the
> machine when the phone rang. I didn't answer of course as it would be
> for my parents who were downstairs.
>
> A matter of seconds later my mother shouts up to me "Pick up the phone".
> This wouldn't be that unusual. Someone from the family , a friend
> perhaps? But no it wasn't. It was someone with an Indian accent spouting
> technobabble about malware.
> Of course I immediately knew what it was. Some scammer trying to get
> access to my father's computer. I took over the conversation. I asked a
> few questions, which he actually had difficulty answering,  He wanted me
> to alter the Windows registry. At which point I confronted him. saying
> loudly. that I was an expert on computers and knew what he was doing and
> that he was a nasty, cheating scammer.
>
>
>
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