My Commodore 64 Never lets me down…
I got a call today from 000-000-0000, a person with a strong accent says “Hello Sir, I am from Technical support. Our servers have alerted us that there is a virus on your computer”
Matt: “Oh, my really? A Virus what should I do?” < Said in my best non-technical dorky voice, which by the way was easy for me
Strong Accent(SA): “You must on your keyboard press Window Key R”
Matt: “So I press Windows Key R… Where is the windows key?”
SA: “Windows key is next to the Control key on your right side of your keyboard”
Matt: “Okay, Control, Control, Control Key, where are you…”
SA: “Did you Press it?”
Matt: “I don’t see a Windows Key… I do see a key that look like a C with an = sign, is that the one?”
SA: “No, its next to the CTRL key…”
Matt: “OH, CTRL, there it is… Okay Pressing C= and R… Okay a Blue screen open… it says LOAD”*”,8,1… Now what do I do?”
SA: “Did you press Windows R… you need to press CTRL and R”
Matt: “OH, CTRL and R… Okay… Pressing… Okay… Blue screen appears… Its says LOAD”*”,8,1…
SA: “Are you sure you pushed CTRL?:
Matt: “Yes, I did… the blue screen says… Commodore 64, 38911 Bytes Free…”
SA: “Are you on a Windows Box?”
Matt: “did you think I was using a windows PC, No I’m on a Commodore 64, its not prone to those Windows Viruses”
SA: “Oh, what is a Commodore 64?”
Matt: “it’s this really great system, that can’t divide by zero”
SA: “Oh….. Long pause… ”
Matt: “You should try one…”
SA: Hangs up…
Next time you call trying to scam a technical professional… Make sure they didn’t grow up with a Commodore computer!
