It is a scam. Ignore them, report them to the telephone preference service, tell them to hang on a second and just leave them on the line. It's a complete fraud.
----------------- Rob Beattie Freelance writer and book author www.robbeattie.com 07769 902820 Twitter: @robbeattie On 18 January 2014 12:44, Keith Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > Can anyone tell me whether or not the repeated calls I get from "Microsoft > Windows" telling me they are getting signals from my computer that I have > downloaded a malicious file? > > Thay attempt to get me to key in a 6 digit number which they claim is a > temporary way of allowing them to inspect my Mac from Safari site " > www.Support.me". > > This displays a warning, which I heeded and went no further. > I do not remember ever initially having been given a 6 digit number by > Apple, which they claim. > > I had been tempted to follow their advice this time as I am fed up with > repeated calls from these Indian guys, whose speech is barely intelligible. > > > I will be very pleased if anyone can give me some idea of whether or not > this is a scam. > The only problems I have recently had repetedly on my PowerMac running OSX > 10.4.11 + Classic OS 9 are with Facebook which repeatedly hangs on incoming > emails when my email has to be "Force Quitted" and the incoming email > binned. > > > Keith > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
