On a regular basis I seem to be getting phone calls, which by the accent and the level of echo on the call appear to originate in the Indian subcontinent. The caller is unfailingly polite and tells me that my Windows computer is sending error messages and they represent the Windows technical support group and they will help me sort out the problem if I will only switch on and supply them with copious amounts of information which will enable them to hack goodness knows what.<\/p>\n
Funny, that as I don’t even possess a Windows computer.<\/p>\n
Everybody I know in Switzerland seems to be being bombarded with these calls at the moment.<\/p>\n
They are so obviously a scam that I can’t imagine anyone in their right mind falling for this – unless they are very old or very naive, but even then I doubt it.<\/p>\n
I have two tactics – the string them along for as long as I can routine<\/em> – thereby incurring big international phone charges for the wretches – and the tell them I know it’s a scam and do they think I’m stupid routine.<\/em><\/p>\n While both can be quite satisfying, I can honestly say that these people are really, really annoying and they don’t get the message and keep calling back. I can’t even block their number because it never shows up.<\/p>\n What to do? Does anybody have a brilliant idea? And is it just Switzerland that’s being targeted or do you get these in other countries too?<\/p>\n Happy Maundy Thursday,<\/p>\n Helen<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On a regular basis I seem to be getting phone calls, which by the accent and the level of echo on the call appear to originate in the Indian subcontinent. The caller is unfailingly polite and tells me that my Windows computer is sending error messages and they represent the Windows technical support group and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQtrc-Vh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3553,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions\/3553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}