This story was published 1 month 14 days ago - and there is loads of new stuff to view on this blog. Not saying the story will not be interesting (of course it is) but there is a wealth of new material available from the blog home page.Ring, ring.
“Hello, Ross Brown.”
Pause. Static. Click.
<thick foreign accent> “Hello, is that Mr Brown?”
“Who’s calling please?”
“My name is David James, I’m calling because we’ve received a number of error reports from the computer in your house – and I want to help you to fix them.”
“Ok… which computer precisely?”
“How many do you have in your house?”
“Well, you tell me how you’ve got information about errors on my machine and I’ll be able to tell you which one.”
“It is a feature of Windows, it alerts us whenever there is a problem with your computer.”
“Windows, you say…”
“Yes Mr Brown, it’s a great feature of Windows that lets us as a representative of Microsoft know whenever you have a problem with your machine.”
“That’s interesting.”
“It certainly is Mr Brown. So, let us run some software on your Windows machine to detect…”
“No, you misunderstand. I don’t own a Windows PC, I run exclusively Apple Macs in this house. So, er, you’d be a liar then wouldn’t you?”
“Er….”
<click, call ends>
Apparently this is becoming common – not the calls from David James but foreign call centres cold calling people to help ‘fix’ non-existent problems with their Windows machines. Please don’t fall for it.
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