I've had these guys on the phone dozens of times, though thankfully not for a few weeks. Sad to say, I've played along with them for a minute or so as it's so funny. They haven't told me that they were from MS though, just that they "had been monitoring issues with my Windows PC and they could tell that I was having problems with crashes and viruses".
Hey ho … Stephen On 30 Jul 2011, at 13:47, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote: > Hi All > > Just had the good fortune to have been at a client's house when he received > an interesting phone call from someone purporting to be from Microsoft, > asking to speak to him by name. > > He passed the phone over to me, the support technician explained, in a thick > Indian accent over a very bad quality VoIP line, that he was calling from > Microsoft and "my computer had downloaded some unwanted junk and malware > threats". > > I asked him to confirm exactly which threats, which he dutifully explained > were "very serious and unwanted". > > I then asked what type of computer I had, while staring at my client's mac > mini. He hung up. > > Never ever believe anyone who calls you telling you anything about your > equipment! > > Made my day. > > Regards > > Sam > > -- > MacAmbulance > Sam Mullen > 07747778022 > [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > When asked in 1997 what he would do to fix Apple's problems, Michael Dell infamously told a crowd of IT executives, "What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders." By the way, how ARE Dell doing these days? ... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
