I got the call a couple of months ago. He tried to give the impression that he was working for Microsoft and they were doing the monitoring. He got very flustered when I pointed out that I had only Apple hardware and didn't run Windows. That didn't stop him from continuing his pitch. I finally had to shut him up by telling him what crook he was and hanging up. Actually I probably didn't shut him up but only moved him to the next one on his robodialer.
Ed __________ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel On Mar 15, 2013, at 1:55 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > Can anybody confirm this as a new form of pfishing? > > I got a call from a number in DC today, somebody with a strong Indian > sub-continent accident, telling me that my computer was sending error > messages to the network and offering to help me correct them. (I have the > number in my phone trap, and would report it if I knew where to report it > to.) The next step involved my going on my computer and connect it to them, > I assume. These guys were pretty bad at what they were doing,, but I can > imagine a more subtle line that I might have fallen for. > > Does anybody recognize this? > > N > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > Clark University > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > http://www.cusf.org > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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