Slow Computer Scam

[Brian Cluff]

I think the scamers are just playing the ods, and they know the likehood 
of someone at home having a windows computer that isn't running quite 
right is very high.  After that, all they have to do is sound like they 
know what they are talking about and they can't get people to do just 
about anything.  It's a lot like the study someone did where they found 
that people were much more likely to inflict pain on someone else if 
someone in a lab coat tells them to.

That also makes me think about a scandal that happened about a decade 
ago where a motherboard manufacturer was caught selling motherboards 
that they know would cause crashes, and they almost got away with it too 
since everyone just attributed the crashes to windows, since it tended 
to do that anyway.

It's just going after the low hanging fruit...

Brian Cluff

On 01/09/2013 04:28 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
> I guess they're counting on people too stupid to know the difference.
>
>
> On 01/09/2013 02:17 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>> I wish these people would think their scam throug.... Why would thr
>> transportstion security administration (or tourism and sports
>> authority) care if your computer was running slow?
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:44 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com
>> <mailto:klsmith2020 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     I just received a phone call where the caller ID said "private
>>     caller"  The guy sounded like he was from India.  He said he was
>>     from TSA and they had received an online report that my computer
>>     was running slow. When I asked how I could contact them he hung up.
>>
>>     Clearly a scam.
>>
>>
>>     ------------------------
>>     Keith Smith
>>
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