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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm
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BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones recorded a conversation with one of those PC scammers. It's quite funny in places. http://audioboo.fm/boos/737724-another- ... ttack-callDo YOU know your CLS ID number?
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm
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I got a recording of the last time they called me. I'll have to dig it out.
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:36 pm
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Location: /dev/tty0
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I'm sort of upset I've never received one of these calls...
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paulzolo
What's a life?
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Here's my experience from about a year or so ago. They got nasty when I told them that I didn't run Windows. http://hairydalek.posterous.com/windows ... department
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mikepgood
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:23 pm
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Meybe we should all just keep them hanging on with increasingly convoluted conversations for the public good......
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finlay666
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:40 pm
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Location: Newcastle
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http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/02/scammin ... -call.htmlTroy Hunt is always interested if you get a number they called you on
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bubbles
Occasionally has a life
Joined: Thu Apr 30, 2009 6:34 pm
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ive had about 5 of these
just say which computer, say you have 3, always fun.
today however I couldnt be arsed to waste my time with them, so I said hold on a sec while I "booted up my pc" aka carried on watching the battle scene from LOTR Two towers
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paulzolo
What's a life?
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And as some appear to be quoting a ‘CLS’ number at you, you can have fun trying to get that number out of them AND finding how to identify that on your computer. Which, of course, is not running Windows. 
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm
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I had one of these once, apparently my Windows PC had informed them that is was infected and wanted treatment, bless it. When I told them that couldn't possibly be true as I run Linux they said, quite genuinely, "Which version of Windows is that?"
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