Ed-
Cutting in before Doug gets there...
It sounds like you get *all* the fun!
Maybe I should answer my phone even when I don't recognize the phone
number... that is MY solution... it works amazingly well, though the
false positives do irritate my friends and colleagues, though that is
what voicemail, txt, e-mail, etc. are for.
My mother recently moved into an assisted living apartment and inherited
the phone number that came with the apartment. The man who lived there
before her apparently got scammed out of quite a bit of money (4 figures
anyway) by phone and his number went out "on the wire" so she gets a
*lot* of calls from these losers... she seems immune to most of it, but
you never know when someone will get past her intuition... she's 86 and
recently widowed. Her Scotch blood and Appalachian roots seem to be
working for her so far. I don't understand why she answers the
phone... a lifetime of habit I guess.
- Steve
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
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Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico
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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 <mailto: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
<mailto: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 <tel:505-984-0136> (home)an...@cs.unm.edu
<mailto:an...@cs.unm.edu>
505-453-4944 <tel:505-453-4944> (cell)
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel <http://www.cs.unm.edu/%7Eangel>
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://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/>
http://www.cusf.org <http://www.cusf.org/>
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