MDchanic

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Seriously?


- Eric

stellar

Someone will go for it.

Olds64

I find that the spam messages telling me about my Nigerian prince cousin are more convincing.

MDchanic

My point exactly.

They didn't even bother to make it come from a Yahoo address.

- Eric

droptopron

I get the fake calls from Dell computer all the time. I got one at my parents house once. The guy is going on & on and I said "weird thing is you called a house without a computer"

VC455

I love to mess with those guys, sometimes I say the same

zeeke

I like to pretend I'm fighting with the wife make it sound violent then abruptly hang up. NRA is the worst. They farm out all kinds of people to solicit for them. Almost makes me not want to be member. Then there's bogus uniformed services that solicit by phone. Just heads up, police and fire organizations as a whole do not solicit by phone. We had one looking for money for the National Burn Center foundation out of Chicago. Trouble is # was from Brooklyn, NY. Turned that one over to the Fire Marshals.

Olds64

There was a "no call list" enacted by congress years ago (one of the nobler things our government has done). I wonder what happened to it given we live in an age of cell phones and very few land lines.

oldcutlass

Its not a spam message its a phishing ploy. The people who are most likely to respond are computer illiterate older people.

MDchanic

Six of one, half a dozen of the other.

The only people this one is likely to get are those with advanced dementia
(though I guess if you've got to take people's money, that group would be the easiest).

- Eric

stellar

What were we talking about?

MDchanic

m371961

I get it the mood sometimes and mess with the "We have discovered a problem with your Microsoft computer " people. The last one I kept on the phone for 30 minutes, asking which computer, give me address, which operating system, etc. Then said I only use DOS 2.0, and will check it out and call them back. Sometimes I tell them I only use a Mac.
Like the idea of staging a violent background argument.
As I use Facebook sometimes, also get the "You are being un-friended, click here mails. At least with spam and phishing you only have to hit delete.

RocketRonnie

i think by you just opening it can put your computer or identity up for risk, just my thoughts. these hackers are lazy and if they are good they can get you. don't open anything from unfamiliar sorces.