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  • worried_jim
    worried_jim Posts: 11,631 Forumite
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    I had one of these scammers call me at work, line went dead when I asked him which one of the 250 pc's in front of me is the infected one? !!!!!!!
  • Neil_Jones
    Neil_Jones Posts: 9,540 Forumite
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    The technical background of these people is non existent, it's clearly all about the money. Last time somebody phoned up about this I pretended it was Windows 95 and I could tell from the way the guy was talking he didn't have a clue that his shiny new Ayama or whatever remote control software they were going to peddle didn't work on Windows 95 and AFAIK hadn't worked on anything earlier than XP since about 2003.

    Anyway I happened to mention it was Windows 95 and it didn't have a modem so how could it tell you had issues? Line went dead after that. But it was fun while it lasted.
  • esuhl
    esuhl Posts: 9,409 Forumite
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    worried_jim wrote: »
    !!!!!!!


    Blimey! That's quite an accusation!
  • COIAHLGW
    COIAHLGW Posts: 138 Forumite
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    I always ask them for the IP address these alerts they are receiving are coming from. That seems to shut them up!
  • Stoke
    Stoke Posts: 3,182 Forumite
    Ask them if it matters whether you're on a token ring or not... :D
  • abssorb
    abssorb Posts: 131 Forumite
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    Stoke wrote: »
    Has someone stolen the dots?
    Genuine LOL! Thank you for brightening my day :)
  • onomatopoeia99
    onomatopoeia99 Posts: 7,159 Forumite
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    Stoke wrote: »
    Ask them if it matters whether you're on a token ring or not... :D
    We threw our token ring hardware out when we moved office three years ago. Most of the interface cards were microchannel architecture so we didn't have anything left to plug them into :rotfl:
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  • Stoke
    Stoke Posts: 3,182 Forumite
    onomatopoeia99 wrote: »
    We threw our token ring hardware out when we moved office three years ago. Most of the interface cards were microchannel architecture so we didn't have anything left to plug them into :rotfl:

    Brilliant. It amazes me that Token ring is still used, albeit by a tiny number of people.
  • aldobranti
    aldobranti Posts: 1 Newbie
    A friend of mine , when she has got bored of playing with these people demands to know if the caller's Mother knows that he is working in such a fraudulent business
  • RumRat
    RumRat Posts: 5,002 Forumite
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    aldobranti wrote: »
    A friend of mine , when she has got bored of playing with these people demands to know if the caller's Mother knows that he is working in such a fraudulent business
    A bit pointless as she's probably sitting at the next call bay....;)
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