[colug-432] "Interesting" Phone Call

Pat Collins pat at linuxcolumbus.com
Sat Jun 23 00:40:02 EDT 2012


On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:55:31 -0400 jep200404 at columbus.rr.com wrote

> I got an "interesting" phone this afternoon from someone who
> claimed that my Microsoft Windows computer was sending them
> messages with passwords and other nifty secrets, and that they
> were calling to help me remove the bad software that sending
> the secrets. He asked if I was in front my computer. I asked

I've gotten those before, one time when I told them they were trying to scam me
the person on the other end started going lalalalalalalala and hung up.  Not
sure which ones I hate worse, those or the "AVOOOOOOM get a cruise for answering
our survey" ones.

Pat




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