"Jimmy Stewart ..." wrote in message
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On 03/03/2021 19:18, Rod Speed wrote:
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

Didnt realise you baptised little kids in your garden. Funky...

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....

Time to trade her in on a new bimbo.

what info were they after after they took over the computer ?

Whatever is on it thats useful to them like you banking details and
passwords etc.

but I have to put in my banking stuff manually...???

They arent to know that.