Now that is a worthy response, Mark!
Severin Crisp
On 08/12/2010, at 9:38 AM, Mark Secker wrote:
My 80+ year old parents got one of these calls a few months back,
after
the call ended my dad rang me to ask/tell me about it...
Apparently they kept telling him that his computer had a virus and
that
they (his "ISP's upstream provider") were about to disconnect his ASDL
connection.... But that for some fee (I think is twas about $90 or
$190
ish) via phone credit card payment he could purchase some cleaning
software that they would give him the link for and help him install.
He then told him that that would be fine but he would have to get an
internet connection first and buy a modem for his 1985 Amega 1000.
Apparently they hung up on him after that
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On 8/12/10 9:18 AM, "wyv...@iinet.net.au" <wyv...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
Thanks everyone for confirming exactly what I thought. Silly buggers
rang me on my phone line too, not the one i use for the net...~lol~
Yvonne
On 08/12/2010, at 8:15 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:
On 07/12/2010, at 6:14 PM, wyv...@iinet.net.au wrote:
hi guys
i have just had a strange call with caller ID showing as Overseas.
The woman asked for me by name and said she was from some company,
I couldn't quite hear it all but it ended with PC. She stated that
they have been getting error messages from my computer and wanted
to know if they could check something, asking me if i was able to
sit at my computer now.
Impossible. For this to be happening you would have to have caught
a virus. You're using a Mac, so you haven't. Goodbye. Hang up.
I told her i didn't believe what she was saying her reply was to
ask me why i did not believe her to which i asked her to describe
the messages at which point she hung up on me.
anyone know wnything about this or experienced the same?
Yvonne
Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 064 948
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