[Ipg-smz] Today's spam/phish call...

Ellen Muraskin ellenmuraskin at gmail.com
Thu Jun 20 02:08:20 UTC 2019


I just tell them does their mother know what they do all day and to get a
real job.  And stop being a disgrace to India.

Ellen Muraskin

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On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 9:36 PM Stephen Satchell <ipg at satchell.net> wrote:

> On 6/19/19 6:30 PM, Daniel Dern wrote:
> > As I believe I've previously mentioned, I've taken to responding to
> > calls from "The Windows Department," "Technical Support," etc. by
> > excitedly/anxiously saying some variant on "I'm glad you called... I'm
> > having trouble with my graphics card, and I don't know whether I need to
> > re-install or update the driver, or tweak the BIO..." at which point
> > they usually have hung up on me.
>
> I had one of those calls, too.  They said that my firewall has been
> compromised.  I asked which IP address give the report --- and the guy
> hung up instantly.
>
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