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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 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq