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2014-10-27 -Lurid Crime Tales-
US court SHUTS DOWN 'scammers posing as Microsoft, Facebook support staff'
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Posted by Fred 2014-10-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 What is their kickback arrangement with ATT and calls.
Posted by 3dc 2014-10-27 00:36||   2014-10-27 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 My parents are under strict instructions to keep these people on the line as long as possible while changing nothing.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-10-27 05:55||   2014-10-27 05:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Ah, the beauties of open borders...
Posted by Rob Crawford 2014-10-27 06:56||   2014-10-27 06:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Do they work for NSA??
Posted by AlanC 2014-10-27 07:34||   2014-10-27 07:34|| Front Page Top

#5 However, the court is fine with scammers masquerading as MoH winners or Navy SEALS to gain influence, positioning, money, et al all for personal gain at the expense of others.
Posted by Procopius2k 2014-10-27 08:52||   2014-10-27 08:52|| Front Page Top

#6 When they call - ask them if they know how to get fresh blood stains out of carpet.

Usually solves the problem.
Posted by Bangkok Billy 2014-10-27 10:05||   2014-10-27 10:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Demand if they knew the deceased and where were they 30 minutes ago. Remind them anything they say can be held against them.
Posted by Shipman 2014-10-27 13:24||   2014-10-27 13:24|| Front Page Top

#8 How do you get fresh bloodstains out of a carpet? By strange coincidence, that information just became really interesting.
Posted by SteveS 2014-10-27 13:34||   2014-10-27 13:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Been getting calls from these p*f*rs for months - judging by the consistent accents, they might be part of the Patel crime family.
Posted by Clem Cheans2431 2014-10-27 13:52||   2014-10-27 13:52|| Front Page Top

#10 Your system was infected when you installed Windows on it.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-10-27 15:07||   2014-10-27 15:07|| Front Page Top

#11 #10 Your system was infected when you installed Windows on it.

That's more true than you might know. My computer came with Windows 8 installed. I did my usual and downloaded and installed a couple of free software protection products. They found a major trojan horse in the "recovery" partition. Took me forever to get to where I could keep it from loading. I just hope I don't have to re-install my software any time soon.
Posted by Old Patriot 2014-10-27 15:42||   2014-10-27 15:42|| Front Page Top

#12 Free software protection products? You get what you pay for. In my experience some of the free so called virus protection packages that you can download from the internet are viruses in their own right.

Go to a reputable software/techie store and plunk down some actual money for a reputable software protection product. Get only one of them. Remove, if you can, the free products. If you have more that one of these packages they will go to war against each other and make your computer unworkable. Unfortunately, I don't know any of them that will protect you from Microsoft.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-10-27 17:00||   2014-10-27 17:00|| Front Page Top

#13 Some of the 'paid-for' virus protection software are just as bad as Viruses. You have 'on access scan' which, along with Windows search bringing your system to a crawl - and then 'full scans' which beat your disks for hours - during the day.
Posted by CrazyFool 2014-10-27 17:49||   2014-10-27 17:49|| Front Page Top

#14 Just today I got a Microsoft call and an IRS one. The gov didn't succeed in shutting down anything.
Posted by 3dc 2014-10-27 18:15||   2014-10-27 18:15|| Front Page Top

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