That might be a fun call for me because I have a Mac.


On Sep 4, 2013, at 9:03 AM, Fred Jensen <[email protected]> wrote:

> While OT, still important.  There is a new scam, prevalent on the US west 
> coast but might be elsewhere.  You receive a phone call from a fast-talking 
> dude who obliquely purports to be from Microsoft.  His pitch goes something 
> like, "blah blah this is windows support, we're getting error messages from 
> your computer.  Can you get to your computer now ... blah ... we can solve it 
> ... it's all very secure ... blah," at which point I hung up.  Have now had 3 
> more of them.
> 
> While there's probably no one on this list who would fall for this, it might 
> be wise to advise less-technically inclined family members of this and to 
> hang up immediately.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Fred K6DGW
> - Northern California Contest Club
> - CU in the 2013 Cal QSO Party 5-6 Oct 2013
> - www.cqp.org
> 
> On 9/3/2013 9:08 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
> 
>> Be safe and be aware, call the phone number on your billing account for
>> your ISP before sending email to any requests like that.
> 
> 
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