I had a call from my mother-in-law this afternoon asking me to come round and sort her laptop out because there was something wrong with it. I popped round and asked what the problem was. I don't bloody know, she says, this man phoned up and told me to press all these buttons but I didn't know what he was talking about and told him he'd have to speak to you. Who was he from? says I. Well, I suppose he was from Sky, she says, they're changing their bloody emails so I think it's something to do with that.
So he calls back and says this is wotsname from Microsoft. From who? Microsoft! Oh ... OK, what's the problem then? Well the computer has been unable to install a very important update for Windows and we have detected this and need to make some changes to fix the computer. Well, I don't think so matey, that doesn't sound right to me, so I'll tell you what I'll do - I'll check Windows Update straight away and if there any problems I'll fix them myself. Thank you. Goodbye.
I was quite pleased - we're always hearing about these scams but I've never come across one before. Good job the mother-in-law is so useless - he obviously wanted to get remote access and between him with an Indian accent and her Glaswegian one, it was never going to happen. Anyway, warn your mothers-in-law and other vulnerable relatives!
Ian
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