Hi Steve I must mention that these scamsters target victims aged 50+ presumably with little knowledge of computers and under-informed of human psychology. Probably picked the wrong bunch at FRIAM :-).
Doug (from what I observe) takes care of himself very well. I'll ask my friends to devise a special scam for him involving peacocks and an Android app. Sarbajit On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 6:26 AM, Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > Sarbajit - > > And here we thought it was you! > > Pranking Nick is just mean, but maybe you could give Doug a ring and tell > him you can fix his Bluetooth/WiFi problem if he just gives you his credit > card and bank account numbers and the keys to his BMW Motorcycle... > > We could all have a party and help you spend out his accounts ordering > stuff online... Do you think he's gullible enough? > > - Steve > > > This scam has been around for years > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/18/phone-scam-india-call-centres > > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 1:33 AM, Douglas Roberts <d...@parrot-farm.net>wrote: > >> 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> >> * >> 505-455-7333 - Office >> 505-672-8213 - Mobile* >> >> ============================================================ >> 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 >> > > > > ============================================================ > 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 > > > > ============================================================ > 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 >
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