[SWLUG] Scam phone calls

[Michael]

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.

Quoting Neil Greenwood <neil.greenwood.lug at gmail.com>: 

> 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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