[Calvin Locke]

The "I'm from MS, and your computer has been comprised" scam has been going on for a long time.

SF LSM types are only just now learning about it?

[JimSEA]

Yeah, I get that “Windows” call every three or four weeks. They even have my name. I’ve had Apple for the last five years but I figured they got my name from one of the anti virus programs I had downloaded to my late but unlamented Windows machine.

[Rodd OB]

I must have had a dozen or more calls using this scam. Lately I have fun with them. I pretend I’m somebody important and turn the tables on them.

Remember the radio dj scam on the telemarketer saying he was investigating the murder of a flaming homosexual.

I try but I’m not that good.

[DannyTN]

When my brother was in college a long time ago, it was " I'm from the phone company, and I need you to pull the slack out of the cord in the wall. Just pull your phone cord kind of hard. Pull it harder... harder..."

[Ken H]

The "I'm from MS, and your computer has been comprised" scam has been going on for a long time.

A scam??? Aw, S*%^!

[daniel1212]

The "I'm from MS, and your computer has been comprised" scam has been going on for a long time. Indeed, "My name is [Indian] from Microsoft Technical support..."

Ask for their call back phone #, and telling them where the Bible places those who love to lie usually makes then hang up.

[smokingfrog]