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3. Bernie Madoff was only doing his job too....

Reply to Nye Bevan (Original post)

Mon Mar 31, 2014, 11:14 AM

Mar 2014

I wonder what their ultimate motivations are. To get access and install bad stuff on your system so you have to pay them, to install backdoors so they can use your computers in evil ways, to steal your personal information....

It would be interesting to reel them in on a test system to see how it plays out.

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Got the "your PC has been sending us error messages" scam call today for the first time. [View all] Nye Bevan Mar 2014 OP

I had that one recently myself. I was pressed for time, so simply laughed and hung up. Jgarrick Mar 2014 #1

I got that one as well TlalocW Mar 2014 #2

Bernie Madoff was only doing his job too.... penultimate Mar 2014 #3

I just say "I'm using 4 computers which one do you mean?" dipsydoodle Mar 2014 #4

Any person who criticized you Kelvin Mace Mar 2014 #5

I love stringing these scumbags along sharp_stick Mar 2014 #6

I received one of those calls yesterday. subterranean Mar 2014 #7

Stringing these criminals along is the only defense we have left seveneyes Mar 2014 #8

Small World Liberal_Dog Mar 2014 #9

My all time favorite to nykym Mar 2014 #10

pesky callers! crash101 Apr 2014 #11

Say "Oh No! Hang on, let me go start my computer up, so you can help me"... then leave the phone on Warren DeMontague Apr 2014 #12