<p>I would have played along for a while, just so they'd get maximum phone bill wastage while generating absolutely no ROI from the call. Then after perhaps an hour, I'd tell them I was running Linux. The worst scam callers are the ones claiming to be from BT, demanding account details.<br /></p>
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<p>Quoting Neil Greenwood <neil.greenwood.lug@gmail.com>:</p>
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<p>Last time I had one of those calls, they couldn't cut me off quick enough when I said I was running Linux!</p>
<p>Neil.</p>
<p>P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 25, 2012 1:29 AM, "Neil Jones" <<a href="mailto:neil@nwjones.demon.co.uk">neil@nwjones.demon.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution" />
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This one will amuse you, I hope.<br />
I as at my parents' place recently. My father has a windows machine<br />
which I help him with occasionally. He has a phone extension next to it.<br />
I was sitting there actually preparing to run a virus scan on the<br />
machine when the phone rang. I didn't answer of course as it would be<br />
for my parents who were downstairs.<br /> <br />
A matter of seconds later my mother shouts up to me "Pick up the phone".<br />
This wouldn't be that unusual. Someone from the family , a friend<br />
perhaps? But no it wasn't. It was someone with an Indian accent spouting<br />
technobabble about malware.<br />
Of course I immediately knew what it was. Some scammer trying to get<br />
access to my father's computer. I took over the conversation. I asked a<br />
few questions, which he actually had difficulty answering, He wanted me<br />
to alter the Windows registry. At which point I confronted him. saying<br />
loudly. that I was an expert on computers and knew what he was doing and<br />
that he was a nasty, cheating scammer.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
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