<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"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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>
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