Network Poofing

[groo]

I have just received an email, purportedly from Microsoft, stating that my computer is infected with a variety of undesirable gremlins and is liable, among other things, to "network poofing". Now I'm pretty familiar with the concept of network poofing - it was, in the unenlightened past, pretty common in Oxford St Sydney, but I can't see what relevance it may have to my computer.

I will not be clicking on the link that promises to take me to Sakenhetskontroll. It may well have been a network spoof.

[Q-pee]

That gay agenda thing is getting out of hand.

[ozziegiraffe]

I got one in my work email from Micrasoft today!

[psw]

I get spam phonecalls claiming to be from Microsoft. I have a Mac. I just hang up.
Some caller-IDs are clearly spam, so I suppose I've skipped a lot and answered only a few.

[Webs]

You can click on the email to verify if it's from the company it purports to be from.

Then block that email.

[wombatrois]

Mar 27, 2024 10:38:04 GMT -5 psw said:

I get spam phonecalls claiming to be from Microsoft. I have a Mac. I just hang up.
Some caller-IDs are clearly spam, so I suppose I've skipped a lot and answered only a few.

This is happening to me too.

The only trouble with this is that when a call came through to my phone with a Queensland phone number the other week (the source of a lot of scams) I ignored it as usual and then noticed they'd left a message, which is highly unusual, so I checked it. It was the emergency call service for Dad letting me know that he had used the service and the ambulance was on the way :-O

They initially called my sister who had done exactly the same thing as me! I suppose they decided to call the next number on their list rather than leaving a message on her phone.

I am answering all calls now (even though Dad is in hospital, it still may be relevant).

[ozziegiraffe]

Yes , I’m answering calls in case it’s my insurance company, which has an Adelaide or Perth code. Yesterday, I got one with a man with an Indian accent saying he was from the Visa fraud department. Someone had spent $400 on Amazon. When I questioned him, he put me through to his “supervisor”, who also sounded suspicious. I wouldn’t tell him anything, but when I asked which bank he said ANZ? Followed by Commonwealth and NAB.
I don’t bank with any of them, I checked my visa balance, and hung up.

[groo]

You've got to be a little careful in your responses, however. I almost hung up on a thickly accented voice once, and asked "And what are you selling?".

Her response was that she was the anaesthetist who would be putting me under next day. At that point the conversation changed somewhat in its tenor.

[Phar Lap]

When the home phone rings, I don’t answer it because it is usually someone up to no good at the other end of the line. If it was important, they would either leave a message or call back. If they don’t leave a message, then they are not important or credible.

[sprite]

Thank you for this.
My last student of the day has not shown up yet, and I'm struggling to keep my smile muscles limber.

(We don't answer our home phone either.)

[Q-pee]

In my ex-ex job I occasionally came across the phone numbers of scammers pretending to work for our company - a Dutch financial services company.

I used to call them and speak only Dutch just to fuck with them.