Tag: virus
Watch out for a new scam.
by Andrew Macpherson on Mar.11, 2011, under Operations
As one might imagine, we are long-term exponents of open-source. We don’t use Microsoft product, so it’s quite amusing to be Phoned up out of the blue to be told we have a windows virus. Really rather difficult on UNIX systems 😀
To be fair to the gentleman introducing himself as Michael Narona he did call my private line, and thought he was talking to a domestic consumer, but he did have my name which is annoying. As it was immediately clear to me this was a scam I decided to see what information I might get to pass on to the police. Enjoy the audio recording
You’ll notice he introduces himself as being from
“The online technical support department of your computer”
and absolutely will not give me a company name, and is extremely reluctant to give me a number on which he can be called back. The incoming call had CLI suppressed.
If nothing else I kept him from scamming others for 6 minutes.
