Hanging up may not always be the best solution. A while ago my wife was getting pornographic calls. I could tell it was the crank caller since he asked for her as Rose instead of Rose Mary. When I asked who was calling he got quite huffy and said he wasn't calling for me, he was calling for Rose. So I told him I'd get her and put the phone down. An hour later I could still hear his heavy breathing. But he finally gave up waiting and never called again.
We had a similar experience with prostitutes calling our room in Kazakstan claiming to be students studying English but that's another story and was more fun. 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 2:48 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > "Microsoft" is usually all it takes to get me to hang up as well. > > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Gillian Densmore <gil.densm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > Yes same here- I didn't give him the chance to get annywhere when could > bairly say Microsoft I just hung up. That virln(Roach) is probably scurring > around I doubt that the kind of person that goes to or is on the FRIAM list > is his mark. > > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Edward Angel <an...@cs.unm.edu> wrote: > 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 > > > ============================================================ > 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 > > > ============================================================ > 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 > > > > -- > Doug Roberts > d...@parrot-farm.net > http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins > > 505-455-7333 - Office > 505-672-8213 - Mobile > ============================================================ > 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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