Microsoft Calls

[Tyler Aviss]

that's awesome! you know linux is getting traction when the scammers
actually take time to support it.

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 :-)
On 2014-09-26 5:50 PM, "Howard Gibson" <hgibson-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 19:24:30 -0400
> Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > I once got the helpful response that they were transferring me to one of
> > their Linux experts.  The software they use to take control of your PC
> has
> > a Linux version, so the scam could conceivably work against one of "our"
> > systems.
>
>    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.
>
>
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