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Old 01-29-2024, 06:19 AM
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“ I did not give them anything. My computer was frozen if I am remember correctly and I was very suspicious about the person who answered when I called the number.

They said they would notify the bank and police but I never told them which bank nor which police station.”

Sorry to say this, but they probably have all of this info now because they told you to run a program that ran for 15 minutes.
I have always been an Apple computer user since the 70’s, used Linux at work since 2000. I used to hire people that did Windows and they spent 1 weekend a month applying security patches to their windows servers and windows still get 99% of all the hacks.
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