Am 22.04.2015 um 17:09 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
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On 2015-04-22 14:51, greg.freemyer@gmail.com wrote:
If this isn't happening with opensuse users, it is a testament to the awareness of our users, not the inherent security of Linux.
Oh yes, it happened to me. At least they tried. :-)
But you see, they said that I had a problem in my Windows. I did not phone, they did. And I got no popup.
There were several strange things. One, they were speaking to me in English (bad English), and I live in Spain. They knew my name. And they did not know how to cope when I said that I had no Windows, but Linux. They insisted, so I hanged the phone.
(ie, their "staff" were not trained to cope with Linux systems)
Apparently, they had a list of Spanish phone subscribers with English names, and they phoned them. Many of those (I think) are folk that come to Spain for retirement, so they are old, supposedly easy prey.
They were phoning from India or thereabouts. I asked in the forum and they told me that it was a quite common occurrence, only that they were now going round Spain.
They tried me several times, then the calls stopped.
This happened just a few weeks ago to a friend of my mama, in Switzerland. She was called from "Microsoft" and told, that she has more than 1000 viruses on her computer (which, b.t.w. seems average to me for a win pc that has run for more than 30 minutes...). They asked her for access data and ... she gave it! Next day her PC was unusable, everything deleted. Only then she realized that she had to change all her online passwords for banks etc., to her luck her accounts stayed untouched... My mother received an e-mail with an .exe-file (within a zip) and opened it, because the message said: we just charged your bank account for 2000 Swiss Francs. Because exe-files don't execute on her linux box, she called me desperate "But I had to click it, when they take so much money from my account!". ... I guess there are two generations that are easy to cheat: the elder ones who only use a PC that their children or grand children have installed for them, and the very young ones who do not have any idea what happens inside a box. They just touch their screens and think they are computer geniuses. -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Barcelona http://www.daniel-bauer.com room in Barcelona: https://www.airbnb.es/rooms/2416137 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org