ARWadsworth wrote:
Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
"MuddyMike" writes:
A very nice Asian sounding man called Barry from Global UK working
on behalf of Microsoft! Keeps telephoning me and STWNFI insisting
that our computers are infected with a virus that is bombarding them
the internet with spam. He tried to convince me that our IP address
had been identified by the International Routing System and this had
alerted Microsoft to call in his services. I led him on a bit this
afternoon and he asked me to run EVENT VWR on my PC.
Oh, I'd love to get one of those.

All I seem to get at the moment are
"Sir, we've been told that you or a member of your family were
involved in an accident recently"...
which isn't true, so I just tell them they've been ripped off by
the person who sold them the data (and this sector is now a large
business, so it's not surprising people started selling fake data).

How odd. I was a witness to a car accident last week. I have had 3
calls/texts already about my claim! I managed to keep one woman on the phone
for 15 minutes before she realised I was making my injuries up and was not
involved in an accident.

Ah, was that the accident where your head became detached from your body?

As my wife said when asked if she could remember exactly when the
accident occurred 'No, I've lost my head and cant remember anything'