I have received those calls here in Canada. My usual reply is to advise the caller to get a real job expressed in nautical terms (if you get the drift) On 2014-06-16, at 3:21 PM, w Simkins wrote: > Hello folks > > Some do say "Microsoft". One called my father's when I was there..."that will be difficult we do not have a computer" which was quite true for dad's home!! Rapid end of call. > > Jacqui > ________________________________________ > From: cheshire-bounces@rootsweb.com <cheshire-bounces@rootsweb.com> on behalf of Adrian Bruce <abruce@madasafish.com> > Sent: 16 June 2014 11:24 > To: 'CHESHIRE-L' > Subject: Re: [CHS] Non-gen - Another round of scam phone calls > > <<snipped>> I've had calls supposedly from Microsoft, telling me that there > was something wrong with my computer > <<snipped>> > > All sorts of lying ****** variants on this. I'm actually quite surprised if > they said that they were from Microsoft as that puts them at risk from a > real company - normally they say that they are from the technical department > of > - the World Wide Web (it's not an organisation so can't have a technical > department), > - the Internet (ditto), > - Windows (it's a product not an organisation so again it doesn't have a > technical department) > > Apparently they might tell you - if you let them near the machine - that > there are all sorts of error messages - and you then get worried because > those messages are there. Relax. Any PC will produce lots of messages as a > perfectly normal part of doing its job - that's all those messages are. > (Don't bother trying to understand the messages - the days are long gone > when any non-Windows specialist could understand the messages). > > Adrian > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CHESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CHESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > absence of evidence is not evidence of absence