[Elecraft] OT: Beware

[Eric Swartz WA6HHQ - Elecraft]

End of OT thread in the interest of reducing the list noise level.

73,

Eric
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On Sep 4, 2013, at 10:39 AM, Buddy Brannan <buddy at brannan.name> wrote:

> Actually, he doesn’t claim to be from Microsoft exactly, but the unwary could get that impressions he claims to be from “Windows support”. I had one of these a year or so ago.
> 
> Here’s a recording of someone winding up one of these fellas:
> 
> http://buddy.brannan.name/hacker.mp3
> 
> Sorry. I forget where I originally found this, likely on audio boo or something, but this isn’t me, of course.
> --
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> 
> On Sep 4, 2013, at 12:03 PM, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:
> 
>> While OT, still important.  There is a new scam, prevalent on the US west coast but might be elsewhere.  You receive a phone call from a fast-talking dude who obliquely purports to be from Microsoft.  His pitch goes something like, "blah blah this is windows support, we're getting error messages from your computer.  Can you get to your computer now ... blah ... we can solve it ... it's all very secure ... blah," at which point I hung up.  Have now had 3 more of them.
>> 
>> While there's probably no one on this list who would fall for this, it might be wise to advise less-technically inclined family members of this and to hang up immediately.
>> 
>> 73,
>> 
>> Fred K6DGW
>> - Northern California Contest Club
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>> 
>> On 9/3/2013 9:08 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
>> 
>>> Be safe and be aware, call the phone number on your billing account for
>>> your ISP before sending email to any requests like that.
>> 
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