Nuts, as I am not new age savvy, I Had an encounter with some kind of Shill today by phone and PC.
My PC is very ill, every known problem known to man.
All the problems I have are reported to HP and Windows automatically and a few weeks ago we decided to just trash the PC and bought a new one.
Being a Yankee I decided to wait until my PC died out right before I replaced it. Today working on this very slow PC with all kinds of strange ads and pop ups I Received a phone call from someone claiming to be calling from Microsoft as they had 600 errors reported.
Very nice man but his accent was odd for someone calling from N.M. He asked me to turn on the PC and he would help me, guide me to fix my machine.
Very patient with me as I had a problem understanding him because of his accent and the fact that I am so ignorant of the beast.
So I sat back thinking well what harm in this. After following his instructions for 5 minutes I noticed my Pc Mouse was moving on its own, not me and when I asked what was going on he told me in order to help me he had taken control of my PC.
This did not set well with me, kind of gave me the creeps as when he pointed out all the nasty's that got through my security walls he would not tell me how to remove the problems.
Then he went into his sales pitch to buy Micro soft security and even when I told him I planned to replace my PC in a week or so and get security he kept insisting I could transfer to my new PC.
I thanked him for his time and hung up the phone. This man called me back 6 times and I put the phone on answer, only thing that that stopped the calls was when Hubby came home and answered the call.
Now the end of this bitch, I could not turn off or on my PC, had no control of the beast and Hubby just walked over and pulled the plug. 10 minutes later, I am back in control.
It is true that it is so good to have a man around the house, what would we woman do without them ?