<p dir="ltr">that's awesome! you know linux is getting traction when the scammers actually take time to support it. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I always wanted to take build a VM machine that had dirty popups and a sick background image (tub girl / goatse perhaps) and grant them access to that if they called to scam me :-) </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 2014-09-26 5:50 PM, "Howard Gibson" <<a href="mailto:hgibson-MwcKTmeKVNQ@public.gmane.org">hgibson-MwcKTmeKVNQ@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 19:24:30 -0400<br>
Christopher Browne <<a href="mailto:cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">cbbrowne@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I once got the helpful response that they were transferring me to one of<br>
> their Linux experts. The software they use to take control of your PC has<br>
> a Linux version, so the scam could conceivably work against one of "our"<br>
> systems.<br>
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If I am online when the call comes, I play stupid and I tell them I cannot find the "Start" button. Someone did manage to get to a website with remote terminal software that had a Linux version.<br>
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