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<blockquote data-quote="Sid Bonkers" data-source="post: 405310" data-attributes="member: 19121"><p>I've had loads of these RRB in fact until a few weeks ago I was getting two or three a week but I am home all day so here to receive them I guess.</p><p></p><p>I generally lead them on and ask them what the problem is and they always follow the same route when I ask what is the problem they ask me to follow a sequence of mouse clicks that opens a windows program called the "Event Viewer" this takes ages as I pretend that I cant understand them or dont know what they are asking me to do :lol: The event viewer is a windows program that records every event that occurs naturally and unnaturally on every windows PC, it is a useful program for trouble shooting problems, but it is perfectly normal for every PC to have a long list of "Events", they will tell you that they are a dangerous virus's that will steal your passwords, banking details identity etc etc but that they can fix it, all you need to do is pay them some money and they will upload a program to your PC to "fix it". All they are after is your money, I can string them along for an hour or so on a good day :lol: </p><p></p><p>Eventually I tell them I am a computer tech and wont be falling for they pathetic little tricks at which point they hang up but I have the pleasure of knowing that I have kept them on the phone for x minutes and that they are paying for the call from the other side of the world where 99.9% of all these calls come from.</p><p></p><p>Microsoft do not have a list of people who own they computers and would not know if you had a virus or not and neither would they care much either way, the one thing you can be 100% certain of is that they would never ever ring you up and tell you you have a virus on your computer.</p><p></p><p>The next time you get one of these calls just hang up, or tell them your calls are being traced by the police or do what I do and act dumb and string them along and at least get the satisfaction that you have wasted their time and cost them money :lol:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sid Bonkers, post: 405310, member: 19121"] I've had loads of these RRB in fact until a few weeks ago I was getting two or three a week but I am home all day so here to receive them I guess. I generally lead them on and ask them what the problem is and they always follow the same route when I ask what is the problem they ask me to follow a sequence of mouse clicks that opens a windows program called the "Event Viewer" this takes ages as I pretend that I cant understand them or dont know what they are asking me to do :lol: The event viewer is a windows program that records every event that occurs naturally and unnaturally on every windows PC, it is a useful program for trouble shooting problems, but it is perfectly normal for every PC to have a long list of "Events", they will tell you that they are a dangerous virus's that will steal your passwords, banking details identity etc etc but that they can fix it, all you need to do is pay them some money and they will upload a program to your PC to "fix it". All they are after is your money, I can string them along for an hour or so on a good day :lol: Eventually I tell them I am a computer tech and wont be falling for they pathetic little tricks at which point they hang up but I have the pleasure of knowing that I have kept them on the phone for x minutes and that they are paying for the call from the other side of the world where 99.9% of all these calls come from. Microsoft do not have a list of people who own they computers and would not know if you had a virus or not and neither would they care much either way, the one thing you can be 100% certain of is that they would never ever ring you up and tell you you have a virus on your computer. The next time you get one of these calls just hang up, or tell them your calls are being traced by the police or do what I do and act dumb and string them along and at least get the satisfaction that you have wasted their time and cost them money :lol: [/QUOTE]
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