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Old 01-21-2012, 02:59 PM   #61
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Got a call this afternnon from someone claiming my windows computer had alot of errors on it. I knew it was a scam but used the same technique Rory Cellan-Jones did with the caller he got. Click on the listen to the call and hear the interaction, it's quite hilarious. My caller get extremely upset when he found out I didn't own a Windows computer

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Our post on the Windows phone scam continues to get a lot of hits, suggesting that the scam is still around, and fraudsters are still trying to con PC users out of money for performing largely useless tasks on their computers
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However, they recently picked on the wrong person to scam; BBC technology correspondant Rory Cellan-Jones, who played along with them for a bit, and recorded the conversation, which was played out on Today on Radio 4 (listen to the call here).


Suffice to say, when Rory revealed that he didn’t in fact own a PC, the caller got rather annoyed, and accused Rory of wasting his time, as well as (unsurprisingly) refusing to give a contact number for the firm he worked for.


http://money-watch.co.uk/8888/micros...rus-phone-scam
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