[nfbwatlk] warning

[Prows, Bennett (HHS/OCR)]

Oh darn, and here I was going to ask you for your bank account number to help you blind folks manage your account. Everybody knows blind people can't manage their money. (grin.) And, just kidding Jake! 

/s/

Bennett Prows

That's really terrible, thanks for the warning.


-----Original Message-----
From: nfbwatlk [mailto:nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Becky Frankeberger
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 3:12 PM
To: wcb-l
Cc: 'NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List'
Subject: [nfbwatlk] warning

June 10, 2013, about 2:45 PM 

 

I just got a call from a lady from Windows, first red flag. There have been for four weeks dozens every day of error messages from my computer to them, second red flag. They will help me get rid of the errors, third red flag.
This guy who called me back had no idea about screen readers, fourth flag.
So just be ware and do not let anyone take over your computer.  By the way they said they will shut down my Windows in a few hours. He said I was lying as blind people can't use a computer.  I asked him if he ever heard of Narrator, just in case he was actually from Microsoft.  He had not. He had my address not quite right, which I would not confirm. He asked if I had
windows 8. I said you opt to know which windows program I had.   

 

So anyway do not be fooled by this fishing scam to get information from you or sell you something. By the way they called me back after I hung up the first time as you saw above. Determined little creeps.

 

I ended up laughing at him by the way.  When he got nasty I hung up and told him I was bored.

 

One spitting mad blond and her guard dog.

 

Becky and Jake  

 

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