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Mr. Genius Man from “Windows Technical Support” gets nasty

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 11:00:03 +0000

I got another “Windows Technical Support” call on Friday evening. My caller ID said Minneapolis, and since I have coworkers in Minneapolis, I answered. But the guy on the other end was a long way from Minneapolis and probably doesn’t

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This “Computer Maintenance Department” sure doesn’t know much about computer maintenance

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:00:26 +0000

“Peggy” from “Computer Maintenance Department” (1-645-781-2458 on my caller ID) called again. Lots of people are aware of these phone calls. They call, make vague claims about receiving a report that your computer is running slow and giving you errors,

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Somebody just tried to hack me

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:15:43 +0000

Caller: “I calling from technical support. We found issue with your PC.” Me: “What company are you with?” Caller: “CSA is the name of my company.” Me: “What’s our business relationship?” Caller: “We found issue with your PC. Our technicians

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The circulating privacy threat warnings miss the boat

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:47:26 +0000

This week I’ve had multiple people send me warnings they saw on Facebook about a new privacy threat, which, after I read about it, really appears just to be something that aggregates information already available about you. Perhaps not coincidentally,

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