It is estimated there are 7 Billion people alive on earth, I would like to think there is only one of me. Alas if only that were true. I think we are not unique and whilst we are products of our DNA, it does not make me the only one of me. For all my belief that I have something new and unique to say by blogging, I am not unique and my words are not new......they are just the random words mixed up in my head and then re-arranged into sentences posted on to this blog to make it sound like me.
Fraudsters think they are clever..... but the truth is they can be dumbfookwankers at times....
There I am sat at work..... brrrrng..... brrrng...... brrrrrng..... Me [intended victim] :Hello good morning, how may I help you ?.... Dumbfookwanker [intended scammer] :Good morning sir, this is Microsoft Tech support
Me [no intention of being a victim] :Oh, what do you want ? ..... Dumbfookwanker [not bright enough to be a scammer] : You have a problem with your computer sir....
Me [by this point it is clear, I am far from being a victim] :oh no that's terrible.... but what do you mean there is a problem with my computer ?....
Dumbfookwanker [by this point it is clear, that he is far from becoming a scammer]: We have detected a series of problems and virus on your computer.....
Me [ you get the idea]: ..... oh no that is terrible but how do you know ?
Dumbfookwanker [you get the idea] :we have been monitoring your computer and it's systems have warned us that we need to help you to get these issues resolved......
Me : oh no that's terrible... what do I need to do ? Dumbfookwanker:Please go to your computer sir
Me: It's in front of me Dumbfookwanker:Good..... can you look at your keyboard....
Me :Yes I am looking at it ..... {seriously this is how the conversation went}
Dumbfookwanker:Look down at the left hand side and there is CTL button.....
Me:Nooooooo I can't see it .....
Dumbfookwanker: FU ......
Me :FU ? Dumbfookwanker: Yes FU....
Me: Nooooooo I can't see a FU button on my keyboard.....
Dumbfookwanker: Fuuuuuuuck yooooou ...... {I don't think he realised it, but pedantically, he should have said to me FY not FU......}
The call didn't last much longer..... but had it done so, then the next thing I would have said..... errr my computer has the words ....... MacBook Air ..... printed on the screen surround...... what does that mean ?
But what is worrying, is that with 7 Billion people on the planet and every day a greater and greater percentage of those people on a computer, on line, and next to a phone..... these scammers can and do find enough gullible people to make this fraud work ........
I love my mother dearly...... but I know that she is one of those at risk...... If only she had decided to buy an Apple Mac.....
During the call, I did think...... I wish my phone had a button marked Taser..... so I could have sent 50,000 volts through the head set of the twat at the other end of the phone...... [who knows he might have been thinking that about me, by the end of the call]...... but between the two us there was only one fake....
for my Friday desert Island SoD slot..... I am wearing a radio head......
and a triple header too
from Rainbows to
Fake plastic trees*
whilst left high and dry inbetween...
* and so the story goes, that it was seeing My Elvis live that inspired them to get this song to it's finished format. You can easily see why that story may just well be the reflection of truth