A feisty 68-year-old woman told off a fraudster who called to get access to her non-existent computer in a money scam.
Marlene Gabarretta, of Birżebbuġa, received a phone call on Wednesday from a woman “with an Asian accent” who informed her that her computer was infected with viruses.
“I told her, ‘why don’t you just go away and leave me alone. I know it’s a scam’,” she said.
The person on the other end of the phone remained unfazed and continued trying to persuade Ms Gabarretta to grant her access to a computer, apparently to tamper with it and then scam her into paying to get rid of non-existent viruses.
“But I don’t even have a computer or laptop. I told her this and just hung up on her,” she said, laughing.
Ms Gabarretta became aware of the fake virus scam after The Times published a story on Tuesday that a number of people had been approached by scammers.
It was the fourth phone call she had received from the scammers who were usually men with a “Filipino or Asian accent”.
“They’re stupid. I told the first person who called that I didn’t have a computer but they still kept calling.”
Ms Gabarretta expressed surprise that the fraudsters had her name and telephone number and...
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