What Happened
At 2.26pm, Saturday 7 May 2011, I received an anonymous phone call.
The caller had an Indian accent and there was lots of background
(typical-call-centre-type) noise. He was not easy to hear.
He represented that he was from Windows Operating System technical
support and was responding to a computer problem that I had 'logged.'
I said I had not done such a thing and that I regarded his call as
suspicious and a likely scam.
He suggested that I turn my computer on so he could show me how to fix
the problem. At that point, I said that I was almost sure the call was
a fraud, said 'goodbye' and hung up.
Speculation
Perhaps I should've followed the instructions to a certain point, to
see what happened? I suspect that I would've been asked to download
a patch (or some similar expression), which I would have declined to do.
However, had I persisted for a little longer, I may've got a clearer
idea of the complete modus operandi, to pass on, in an effort to
forewarn others.
Or maybe I should've said I used Linux or had a Mac, to see what happened?
At 2.26pm, Saturday 7 May 2011, I received an anonymous phone call.
The caller had an Indian accent and there was lots of background
(typical-call-centre-type) noise. He was not easy to hear.
He represented that he was from Windows Operating System technical
support and was responding to a computer problem that I had 'logged.'
I said I had not done such a thing and that I regarded his call as
suspicious and a likely scam.
He suggested that I turn my computer on so he could show me how to fix
the problem. At that point, I said that I was almost sure the call was
a fraud, said 'goodbye' and hung up.
Speculation
Perhaps I should've followed the instructions to a certain point, to
see what happened? I suspect that I would've been asked to download
a patch (or some similar expression), which I would have declined to do.
However, had I persisted for a little longer, I may've got a clearer
idea of the complete modus operandi, to pass on, in an effort to
forewarn others.
Or maybe I should've said I used Linux or had a Mac, to see what happened?
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