Unwanted files downloading

[edfair]

Just had a phone call from my computer's technical support site telling me my computer is downloading unwanted files.

So I asked him which computer he was talking about and he told me it was my Windows computer using 7.

So I asked him what files and he gave me a list and asked me to help him correct the problem.

So then I told him my computer was XP and he hemmed and hawed. Actually that was a lie but since the 7s are not active right now I feel sure I will be forgiven.

Then I asked him if he recognized that I was aware that he was a scam.

Click

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[goombawaho]

Point of this post?? Are you bragging about thwarting the scammers???!!!
You should have given them access to your machine but first set a very explicit pron picture as your desktop background. Yuks all around.


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Modern man's daydreams have turned into nightmares.

 

[edfair]

More to the point that the scammers assume that users are on 7, best bet currently, but not a slam dunk.

Had I been at the work area I might have given him a shot at one of the SE partitions.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[ANFPS26]

I get one of those calls about once a week from Indian call centers.

Jim

 

[goombawaho]

I never get any of those calls. I want one of those calls to have some fun. I never have any fun.

"Living tomorrow is everyone's sorrow.
Modern man's daydreams have turned into nightmares.

 

[ChrisHirst]

The last call like that I had lasted about 25 seconds and the final word spoken was "off"!

Chris.

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[goombawaho]

blast off
kick off
lift off
buzz off
oh............................ got it.

"Living tomorrow is everyone's sorrow.
Modern man's daydreams have turned into nightmares.

 

[xwb]

I normally pick up the receiver but I don't say anything. Quite a few of these callers just hang up if they don't hear you saying anything.