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On 18/02/11 15:05, Roland Tarver wrote:
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I would be tempted to feign ignorance, let them guide me to download their application and then thoroughly stump them when they try to get me to run it... "it isn't running... it keeps asking me if I want to open WINE. Silly computer, doesn't it know that I don't drink alcohol.." (or something like that). Grant. ;-DPerhaps I should have got mum to take the call lol lol ;-) roly Things like this make me glad I have my mum running Ubuntu. She think she has a virus when those Windows XP style popups pretending to scan and find viruses pop up! On 18/02/11 14:33, Pete Hatton wrote: Sounds very much like this scam in action. I remember that scam from last year sometime. I recall some Mac users being smug about the situation at the time. Maybe they will port their software to Linux as I never get fun calls like this! Gibbs |
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