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01 Wolverine, Especially for the unsuspecting.
Ive had two of these calls in the last twelve months, claiming to be Microsoft techoes and they are insistent, clever and devious characters. One claimed I had a Virus on my system and it would shut my system down in less than one hour, unless He was allowed to fix it for me.
I played along to see what he was up to. First he asked me to check my system log files for errors and warnings, Well we all get them from time to time, no bigee.
He then asked me to open a command prompt and tried to get me to key in a list of executables. I new it was a scam, cause Microsoft don't contact no one to fix OS problems of this nature.
If they can get you to do their bidding, they can lock your system, with monetary demands to put things right and unlock your OS.
I told him he had picked on the wrong guy, and gave him S**T for his troubles. He became quite indignant realizing I had wasted 1hr of his time but it was amusing.
Im glad they finally got them, cause its been going on in Australia now for a couple of years.
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HeHe, I just watched the Vid, brilliant, long but entertaining, Steve Wilson, a name to remember!!!
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