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Agree Mike. When you ask them for license number or product number they babble. Then you ask what is my IP, what version of Windows am I on, more babble.

All these scams work on our human emotions, curiosity, greed and fear. Once they tell you someone is trying to hack machine the fear element has been established and they are just trying to set the hook.

This call has been rolling around town for years.

Thanks Mike, yes refresh works.

Going to the framing store with wife. They are clients so see what they are up too.

Talk later.

Wynona said:

That saying was around long before Mash ever existed. :)

Anyway, as Simrick said; either way gets the message across.

I know, MASH was around dating back to The 1950's , and yes both sayings apply, I never heard of the tooth pick one , a tooth pic looks like a lowercase l where a Hockey stick looks more like a upper case L

Good advice Andre, no beverages in the afternoon.

I must remember the 8.8.8.8 answer, just for an additional giggle. The longer you can keep them on the phone talking useless nonsense the better.

We get lots of calls here for air duct cleaning. They usually ask for the home owner. If they don't ask I ask them if they need home owner.

I yell out "Hey Frank it's for you" and put phone down. Come back several minutes later and ask if Frank joined. I yell out again. I do this till they hang up. Idiots.

paulsalter said:

Thanks All :)
Nice to get a win

I will share the special prize as soon as i receive it

Ooohhh! I can't wait! :)

Caledon Ken said:

Well Microsoft just called me because I'm a licensed user. Appears my machine has been causing problems on the Internet. Played with them for a while and then told them to .........

Lucky you! I don't get those nice calls anymore.....

Caledon Ken said:

Any body else notice, lots of posts, different threads, are posting twice.

Yeah, refresh solves it.

OldMike65 said:

Hit refresh button Ken, on your browser. :)

Maybe this is why the new site is under construction.:)

I doubt that was MS calling, it happened to me and I kept the nit on the phone quite some time, with my Ethernet cable removed.