We've had these sorts of calls in Australia for last 2-3 years. My wife had fun playing sport with one about 6 months ago. I usually hang up straight away - like Doug said, there was no point mentioning that we're a Linux (mostly) household.
I remember reading a blog by an internet security consultant, who spun up a virtual machine whilst on the phone, and let them into it, just to see what they did. Needless to say, they were not particularly sophisticated, and hang up immediately he revealed to them how he'd conned them. I don't have a reference, and Google not really helping at present... Cheers On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 01:55:42PM -0600, 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 <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 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ 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
