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On Wed, 7/22/15, Bruce Johnson <johnson@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] A Possible Scam
 To: "tml@simplelists.com" <tml@simplelists.com>
 Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2015, 10:51 AM

 > On
 Jul 22, 2015, at 10:18 AM, Leslie Bates (via tml list)
 <nobody@simplelists.com>
 wrote:
 >
 > 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.
 >
 > I'm passing this along to everyone.
 >
 > 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.
 >

 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/>

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The date on the article was OCT'12!

WOW!

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