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  • Julia RezJuliaRez@chaos.social
    Apr 8, 2026, 8:43 PM

    @vees

    Excellent!

    The last time I had a 'your computer has a virus' call, it was quite easy to drop into 'Busy ops department':

    scam: 'yr computer, etc'

    JHR, tired: 'right. which one?'

    S: 'its running windows'

    JHR: 'do you have a service tag?'

    S: ' ... '

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  • John William David Thomsonjwdt@mastodon.social
    Apr 9, 2026, 7:09 AM

    @JuliaRez @vees I distinctly remember frantically searching for windows XP screenshots from Ubuntu to play along with that sort of scam, whilst acting as a half dead old man who needed everything repeating about 3 times and couldn't find his glasses for a few minutes.

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