I've gotten a few of those over the past few days from similarly accented people trying to tell me that my Windows machine was infected with a virus, but the callers' numbers were blocked.
No, I didn't bother to Linuxize them, although that would have been fun. --Doug On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Can anybody confirm this as a new form of pfishing? **** > > ** ** > > I got a call from a number in DC today, somebody with a strong Indian > sub-continent accident, telling me that my computer was sending error > messages to the network and offering to help me correct them. (I have the > number in my phone trap, and would report it if I knew where to report it > to.) The next step involved my going on my computer and connect it to > them, I assume. These guys were pretty bad at what they were doing,, but > I can imagine a more subtle line that I might have fallen for. **** > > ** ** > > Does anybody recognize this? **** > > ** ** > > N**** > > ** ** > > Nicholas S. Thompson**** > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology**** > > Clark University**** > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/**** > > http://www.cusf.org**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > -- *Doug Roberts d...@parrot-farm.net* *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-672-8213 - Mobile*
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