[SWLUG] Scam phone calls

[Michael]

Interesting. The scam's been around for about 3 years now, so enough  
people must be falling for it. I guess you could try socially  
engineering the caller next time, you know, to reveal stuff about  
their network or email addresses.

Quoting Lyn David Thomas <lyn at cibwr.org>:

> On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:50:45 +0100
> Neil Greenwood <neil.greenwood.lug at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Last time I had one of those calls, they couldn't cut me off quick
>> enough when I said I was running Linux!
>>
>> Neil.
>>
>
> I seem to get these regularly, saying my windows machine is infected by
> a virus - that they are ringing from microsoft and offering to help
> me.  When I say that I am not running windows they say it was a mistake
> and they mean my Mac is infected, then I say I am running linux and
> they start spluttering, I usually hang up.
>
>
>
> --
> \/ Lyn David Thomas
> http://www.cibwr.org - not much here but keep checking to see if there
> is anything interesting!
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