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

[Logan Harbaugh]

Most of them are probably beyond reforming, and I don’t want to spend the time trying to teach them something – I just hang up immediately. 

 

 

Thanks, 

Logan G. Harbaugh
logan at lharba.com
530-243-1346
1547 Magnolia Ave.
Redding, CA 96001
www.lharba.com <http://www.lharba.com/> 

 

From: Ipg-smz [mailto:ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org] On Behalf Of Ellen Muraskin
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 7:08 PM
To: ipg at satchell.net; ipg-smz at netpress.org
Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] Today's spam/phish call...

 

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

High-Tech Stories in Low-Tech Prose

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973-734-1972

973-479-7598 (m)

 

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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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