> On Jul 22, 2015, at 10:18 AM, Leslie Bates (via tml list) <nobody@simplelists.com> wrote:
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> This email was sent from yahoo.com which does not allow forwarding of emails via email lists. Therefore the sender's email address (lesbates_traveller@yahoo.com) has been replaced with a dummy one.
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> I'm passing this along to everyone.
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> I just received a phone call from someone who identified himself as being from the Technical Department of Windows and he asked if I was the primary owner of my computer.  I would assume that a proper Microsoft employee would actually identify himself as be being employed by Microsoft.  On the basis of this I assumed that this was a scam and immediately hung up the phone.
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I get one of those nearly every week. I hear ‘hello, my name is <insert random american name, said in heavy indian accent> I am from the Vindows Microsoft technical department calling about your vindows computer”

Me “no you’re not!" click. I’ve just never had a throwaway VM ready on my mac to play along…

Here’s a good description of what they do:

<http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/i-am-calling-you-from-windows-a-tech-support-scammer-dials-ars-technica/>

--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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