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Thread ID: 113917	2010-11-09 20:22:00	Ring, ring: It's your con artist speaking.	Trev (427)	PC World Chat

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1151673	2010-11-09 20:22:00	Here. (www.nzherald.co.nz) :)	Trev (427)
1151674	2010-11-09 20:52:00	Got one of those calls last week (Indian accent). Interestingly, she knew my first name, and that's not in the phone book... I ended up asking her for her credit card number, which really put her off balance. Told her to **** off before I asked her how she knew: 1. that I had a computer 2. that I had a virus on it Kicking myself now - would have been amused to hear the answer... forums.pcworld.co.nz	johcar (6283)
1151675	2010-11-09 20:56:00	SWMBO had a call on the phone a couple of nights ago where she was informed she had won the jackpot in Las Vegas. As she was there a couple of months ago, she got a bit excited!! She was then informed to key in the following numbers, starting with 9..... At that point she hung up on the caller. Good SWMBO!!!!!!! Ken	kenj (9738)
1151676	2010-11-09 23:47:00	My mother-in-law got one of these calls the other day. She said she new nothing about computers and to call me and gave them my fone number. Needless to say they never called..	paulw (1826)
1151677	2010-11-10 03:11:00	Sigh.............Mrs T is a sucker for "free offers" and more than once has signed up for some shonky eye-candy offer. Her standard response is to say "how do you know it's a scam?" and then get very grumpy when you point out ten or so good reasons why it is not kosher. She was "the lucky 10,000th visitor" to a webpage recently and 'won' $10,000. Fortunately my son caught her halfway through entering her details. I shudder to think what would have happened if they then asked for her (our!!) bank account number to deposit the cash prize. Of course they would have needed "additional information to confirm your identity" etc. :badpc: Cheers Billy 8-{) :eek:	Billy T (70)
1151678	2010-11-10 14:24:00	SWMBO had a call on the phone a couple of nights ago where she was informed she had won the jackpot in Las Vegas. As she was there a couple of months ago, she got a bit excited!! She was then informed to key in the following numbers, starting with 9..... At that point she hung up on the caller. Good SWMBO!!!!!!! Ken I've gotten that one a few times. It just tells you that you were too slow.	ubergeek85 (131)
1151679	2010-11-11 09:37:00	When I read the title of this thread, I thought it would be about Ken Ring, the dingaling who reckons he can forecast everything from weather to earthquakes from the Moon's orbit. He preys on gullible people who don't understand that chaos prevents us from forecasting weather more than 7 days ahead because the weather next week is critically dependent upon small fluctuations in the conditions today. Yet he reckons he can forecast the weather a year ahead! He calls himself a mathematician, but actually he doesn't have any such qualifications. Except that he was a High Schools maths teacher for a while. He should be locked up in either in jail or in an asylum.	TideMan (4279)
1151680	2010-11-11 20:37:00	Ken Ring isn't the topic of this thread, but I bought one of his books a couple of years ago (bargain bin!). I then noted on each page for every day of the year whether he was on the money or not. His predictions were no worse (and actually somewhat better) than MetService, wacky as his theories may sound. /off topic	johcar (6283)
1151681	2010-11-13 05:15:00	I got phoned twice by a couple of Indian accents a few months ago, saying my PC had some viruses. I lead them on for a while, then told them to get a real job. But what really worries me is that they may catch older (?) (I'm 60) people who are not up with the play on this sort of thing and suck a few of them in. I think that ISP's world wide should be made to report these people to each other and close these places down. It would be easy if they wanted to.	Digby (677)
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