On 03/03/2021 14:47, charles wrote:
In article , The Natural Philosopher
wrote:
On 03/03/2021 13:04, charles wrote:
In article , Jimmy Stewart
wrote:
Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian caller
in a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow and she
could speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and couldn't
find her glasses so she hollered out the window to me in the font
garden to come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in and spoke
to her....she asked me if I had my computer on and what was the key to
the right of CTRL....I told her FN and she said to push the windows
key to the right of that......at that point I twigged it was a scam
and hung up....she phoned back imediately and I hung up again....I
assumed it was a scam but the scarry thing was The wife would have
fell for it....what info were they after after they took over the
computer ?

I had one of these calls a few months ago. When I said the key had a
cogwheel on it, there was a long pause. Then "Is it a Windows
computer?", to which I replied "No" and they hung up.

I did that some time ago..got them all excited wasted half an hour of
their time before they twigged i was running Linux.

I was running RISC OS, as i am now.


Well full marks for rarity, I don't think everything I need is on
RISCOS, sadly...



Unfortunately it also wasted half an hour of my time too.

+!



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