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Originally Posted by Ann Drysdale
Tell them your computer's a Mac. That's what I do.
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Ah, but the predators remain just as aggressive, even when I tell them I have a Mac (which I do--my husband made me switch when he got tired of wiping my hard drive every few months, because my lovely but flaky poet friends kept sending me so many viruses).
I also point out to the callers that their scam has been repeatedly outed, both on the Internet and in the mainstream press, and I remind them that cheating and stealing are despicable behaviors.
But there is no magic bullet--apparently their script requires them to keep hammering away at their "our records show that your computer is at risk" mantra, no matter what anyone says. And when I hang up they keep calling back, from unidentifiable numbers I can't block.
Why? Because their aggressive scare tactics succeed with enough victims that they're going to stick with them, no matter how hard the authorities try to crack down, both
here and
elsewhere, and no matter how well-publicized the scams are.
I guess I should probably change my home phone number anyway, now that election season is almost upon us. Sigh.
Oh, well. Thanks for listening to me rant. It's been therapeutic.
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