A Phone Call For Mr Sellan

The phone rang at home the other day, and when we picked it up a voice down a crackly line asked if a "Mr Sellan" was there. He then proceeded to discuss it me that a complaint had been rescued with my Windows computer. Having had identical calls before, we think we knew what was coming.

So instead of putting the phone down, we motionless to fool around along and record the call. The human at the other finish told me to go to my P.C. and sort in a intricate array of instructions.

Then he asked me if we was saying a particular fibre of letters and numbers. "Ooh yes," we said. That was proof, he told me, that my P.C. was sending out the blunder summary that his firm had received - and that had led him to call in the initial place.

So we then sought to find out what he was suggesting we do about my really bad putrescent computer.

"We will initial have to examine out the problems and what it will take to put together them," he told me.

That might cost nothing or only a minimum assign but if we longed for full insurance over a longer time that would be 159.

At that point, we motionless to exhibit that we had been stringing him along. we do not have a Windows P.C. at home, so we had not been typing in the instructions - even though when a coworker attempted it after that on a Personal Computer at work subsequent to the same commands, he came up with same fibre of figures and letters.

The human at the other finish was initial bemused, then rsther than cross. He indicted me of wasting his time and energy, then when we asked for a write number to meeting his firm's PR department, he consummated the call.

Now this is a well-noted scam, that can engage selling you program you do not need or even having your P.C. taken over for rouge purposes. There are lots of warnings from Microsoft and from safety experts that any call you obtain from someone claiming they know what is going on to your Personal Computer should be consummated rapidly.

But a few people are getting steady calls, and there contingency be quite a few who are disturbed sufficient to drop is to scam. My tourist - who appeared by the way to be entirely assured that he was gift a bona fide product - told me that his firm had lots of contented customers.

The other subject that we longed for answered was how the firm had got grip of my number - that I've listed with the Telephone Preference Service to be able to prevent getting these calls.

The tourist mentioned it was on "an general database". If that is so, then someone is entangled in a potentially unlawful traffic in personal data.

But as this firm - similar to many of them - was formed abroad they might not caring as well much about that. So it looks as even though we can all design to bring on getting these calls - and will have to select to disregard them, or maybe fibre them along for a whilst to waste products their time.