In article , The Natural Philosopher
wrote:
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...


Agreed; I also have a Windows10 Desktop. 2 Windows 10 laptops which can run
Virtual Acorn, a RISC OS laptop (used for society accounts) and an iPad Pro
on which I keep 'sheet' music.

All my DTP work is done on RISC OS. Laptops were originally for taking
proofs to 'customers' and, if necesssary, amending on the spot.


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

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