"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*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-672-8213 - Mobile*
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