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The Meat Dimension
Mar 29, 2010

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Hello thread there's a dude who called my mother one time about her computer security and now he can remote into her computer. Wrote him out a personal check and sent it in the mail. Apparently he has some kind of "security" thing with Microsoft. This sounds sketch as gently caress right?

Am I in the right place?

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The Meat Dimension
Mar 29, 2010

Gravy Boat 2k

Unguided posted:

Stop payment on that check immediately.

OSI bean dip posted:

That sounds sketchy as hell. Was this cheque written recently?

Yeah this happened some time ago. It's long gone.

Segmentation Fault posted:

That is 100% a scam. I've seen this happen before several times.

The thing is that it was about a year ago. I told her it was a scam then and she said "we'll see" and so far she hasn't been locked out of her computer so this guy is on the level, supposedly. I guess what I'm looking for is advice on how I convince my mother (an Excel wizard) that continuing this relationship is a bad idea

E: I won't continually pester the thread with updates on "this didn't work" or "that didn't work", I'm just at my wits end here. Can I point to something on the Internet for her to look at?

The Meat Dimension fucked around with this message at 04:21 on Aug 19, 2015

The Meat Dimension
Mar 29, 2010

Gravy Boat 2k
Thanks, really appreciate that.

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