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Warning signals?

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  • 05-09-2015 12:51pm
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    hubluh
    Registered Users Posts: 69 ✭✭


    A person claiming to be from microsoft called my home phone and said my computer had warning signals and i should turn it on and give him a code, I hung up before he could go any further..

    What does this mean?


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    Kristopherus
    Registered Users Posts: 11,907 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    Scam, scam scam.


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    #3
    Fuzzy Clam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,293 ✭✭✭Fuzzy Clam


    hubluh wrote: »
    A person claiming to be from microsoft call my home phone and said my computer had warning signals and i should turn it on and give him a code, I hung up before he could go any further..

    What does this mean?

    It means he was going to try to scam you. NEVER do anything these guys tell you.


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    Digital Solitude
    Registered Users Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭Digital Solitude


    He was trying to scam you, ignore it


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    galljga1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,938 ✭✭✭galljga1


    "You have virus on your internets"


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    #6
    SpannerMonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 2,106 ✭✭✭SpannerMonkey


    common scam they are forever ringing my parents trying it .never got one myself . pity id like to get a call off them just to troll them :P


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    hubluh
    Registered Users Posts: 69 ✭✭hubluh


    Oh okay I was thinking the same myself tks.


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    AngryDiMaria
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 489 ✭✭AngryDiMaria


    You should string them along until they snap


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    #9
    galljga1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,938 ✭✭✭galljga1


    I used to give the phone to my son when he was about two and he would babble away to them. Eventually he refused to take the phone.


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