On May 21, 8:03*am, Adrian Jansen wrote:
Interesting gambit:

Get rung up by a voice with a thick accent ( you can guess the origin )
claiming that my computer is generating errors and reporting them to
M$soft. *Offers to send a technician to help fix the errors and restore
computer to "full working order". *Cannot give details about which
computer is generating the errors. *Cannot send a transcript of the
error log to me - does not know my email address. *But has my name,
street address and phone number - which anyone can get by looking in the
phone book. *Assumes my computer is running Windoze, but does not know
which version. *Suggests I run the error log report using eventwvr,
which does show a few errors and warnings, but then I know about those,
and M$soft specifically says that errors from this log are never sent to
* M$soft.

A good way of getting a bit of work and money ?

An even better way of getting entry to a house with a view to casing the
joint ?

Maybe I'm just too suspicious.

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Regards,

Adrian Jansen * * * * * adrianjansen at internode dot on dot net
Note reply address is invalid, convert address above to machine form.

Probably not the same "scam", but interesting just the same

http://www.news.com.au/business/brea...-1225872326218

kreed wrote:
On May 21, 8:03 am, Adrian Jansen wrote:
Interesting gambit:

Get rung up by a voice with a thick accent ( you can guess the origin )
claiming that my computer is generating errors and reporting them to
M$soft. Offers to send a technician to help fix the errors and restore
computer to "full working order". Cannot give details about which
computer is generating the errors. Cannot send a transcript of the
error log to me - does not know my email address. But has my name,
street address and phone number - which anyone can get by looking in the
phone book. Assumes my computer is running Windoze, but does not know
which version. Suggests I run the error log report using eventwvr,
which does show a few errors and warnings, but then I know about those,
and M$soft specifically says that errors from this log are never sent to
M$soft.

A good way of getting a bit of work and money ?

An even better way of getting entry to a house with a view to casing the
joint ?

Maybe I'm just too suspicious.

--
Regards,

Adrian Jansen adrianjansen at internode dot on dot net
Note reply address is invalid, convert address above to machine form.

Probably not the same "scam", but interesting just the same

http://www.news.com.au/business/brea...-1225872326218

Yes, sounds like a variation on the same idea.

IMHO many so-called registry cleaners are not much more than this.

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Regards,

Adrian Jansen adrianjansen at internode dot on dot net
Note reply address is invalid, convert address above to machine form.