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CAUTION! Be aware of a phone scam!
Someone tried to scam me on the phone. A guy with an Indian accent phoned
and told me that his organization had noticed that when my computer
connects to the internet it generates a lot of errors. I knew it was some
kind of scam but instead of hanging up I stayed on the line to see what
he'd ask me to do.
He asked me to press my windows key and R and start event viewer.
Then he asked me to double click on "Applications". Next he asked me to
scroll down that list and tell him approximately how many red flagged
error lines there were in the list. I told him about 20 and he said "Oh my god!"
Then he transferred me to his "Supervisor" who asked me to double click on
"System" and count the red flagged lines there. I must have sounded
unimpressed because he asked me a couple of times if I understood what
the errors actually were. Their story was that the yellow warnings meant
that my computer could be infected with a virus at any time. At any time!
I told him that I never looked at that screen and did not know what anything
and then he put my on to someone else to talk to me about my warranty.
I was offered 2 year's warranty for only $170. What a bargain. Then I hung up.