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Re: [LUG] Telephone call re my computer

 

On 31/01/12 17:00, Martijn Grooten wrote:
> They called me again yesterday. I played along for a while and before
> they were supposed to connect to my PC, I said I needed to go and
> would call them back the next day. By then I had set up a VM running
> XP.
> 
> Had great fun and it was interesting to see what happens if you fall
> for them. Interestingly, no credit card check is performed (so they
> record the number and presumably charge you later) and thus I got
> through to the "end". They would probably be convincing for the true
> computer illiterate but generally they were rather clueless - there
> were  a lot of hints that this was a brand new Windows installation,
> non of which they picked up.
> 
> I managed to take a lot of screenshots. As I had mentioned, I'm
> working on a presentation about this and I basically saw it being
> written before me.
> 
> Martijn.
> 
That is what I call sneaky. Love it!! I can't do likewise because I have
no access to anything Windows.

Neil

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