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Re: [LUG] "I am calling you from Windows" scam redux

 

On 05/10/12 10:25, Peter Lloyd-Jones wrote:
> Hi
>
> I had a rather nasty one.  I was bored and played along, then got too
> bored and decided to stop.  Anyway my India "friend" really lost it,
> swore at me and said he had planted all sorts of viruses on my machine
> and hung up!
>
> So I am not so polite to them now.
>
> All the best
>
> Peter L-J
>
>
>

I had a call the other day.  English so poor I told the lady I could not
understand a word she was saying and hung up.

We need to get more people to simply HANG UP or tell em where to go then
hang up. However I know quite a few people who use windows , and
describe it as slow etc.   So its no wonder they fall for these scams, 
if they say something like " you have a virus which makes your system
slow,"  People would fall for it.

I had 3 in one day and 3rd time they were told to p*** off, i could hear
something about not needing to use that sort of language,  I can think
of another word beginning with p. as they are from india but anyway,  It
stopped em for a while.


Paul

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