• US woman and scam caller

    From Scott@newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk to uk.tech.digital-tv on Thu Oct 16 14:48:36 2025
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    Can anyone give me a link to a video where a very entertaining
    American woman receives a scam call saying her computer has a virus
    and is about to crash, when she asks if she should wrap it in airbags?
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  • From Roderick Stewart@rjfs@escapetime.myzen.co.uk to uk.tech.digital-tv on Thu Oct 16 15:03:57 2025
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    On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:48:36 +0100, Scott
    <newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

    Can anyone give me a link to a video where a very entertaining
    American woman receives a scam call saying her computer has a virus
    and is about to crash, when she asks if she should wrap it in airbags?

    You might mean "IRLRosie" on Youtube. That sounds like the sort of
    thing she does. She's a voice actress who enjoys winding up scammers
    by wasting as much of their time as possible by pretending to be
    clueless old ladies or foreigners with impenetrable accents and so on.
    Rod.
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  • From Scott@newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk to uk.tech.digital-tv on Thu Oct 16 17:02:15 2025
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    On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:03:57 +0100, Roderick Stewart <rjfs@escapetime.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

    On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:48:36 +0100, Scott
    <newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

    Can anyone give me a link to a video where a very entertaining
    American woman receives a scam call saying her computer has a virus
    and is about to crash, when she asks if she should wrap it in airbags?

    You might mean "IRLRosie" on Youtube. That sounds like the sort of
    thing she does. She's a voice actress who enjoys winding up scammers
    by wasting as much of their time as possible by pretending to be
    clueless old ladies or foreigners with impenetrable accents and so on.
    Rod.

    It's not IRLRosie. I have seen her too. The one I am thinking of
    relates specifically to a call received where the caller says the
    computer will crash and the woman utters the unforgettable line about
    whether she should surround it with airbags.
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  • From Abandoned Trolley@that.bloke@microsoft.com to uk.tech.digital-tv on Thu Oct 16 17:05:48 2025
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    On 16/10/2025 17:02, Scott wrote:
    On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:03:57 +0100, Roderick Stewart <rjfs@escapetime.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

    On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:48:36 +0100, Scott
    <newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

    Can anyone give me a link to a video where a very entertaining
    American woman receives a scam call saying her computer has a virus
    and is about to crash, when she asks if she should wrap it in airbags?

    You might mean "IRLRosie" on Youtube. That sounds like the sort of
    thing she does. She's a voice actress who enjoys winding up scammers
    by wasting as much of their time as possible by pretending to be
    clueless old ladies or foreigners with impenetrable accents and so on.
    Rod.

    It's not IRLRosie. I have seen her too. The one I am thinking of
    relates specifically to a call received where the caller says the
    computer will crash and the woman utters the unforgettable line about
    whether she should surround it with airbags.



    is it possible that its not actually on youtube at all ?
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  • From Scott@newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk to uk.tech.digital-tv on Thu Oct 16 17:42:51 2025
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    On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:05:48 +0100, Abandoned Trolley <that.bloke@microsoft.com> wrote:

    On 16/10/2025 17:02, Scott wrote:
    On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:03:57 +0100, Roderick Stewart
    <rjfs@escapetime.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

    On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:48:36 +0100, Scott
    <newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

    Can anyone give me a link to a video where a very entertaining
    American woman receives a scam call saying her computer has a virus
    and is about to crash, when she asks if she should wrap it in airbags?

    You might mean "IRLRosie" on Youtube. That sounds like the sort of
    thing she does. She's a voice actress who enjoys winding up scammers
    by wasting as much of their time as possible by pretending to be
    clueless old ladies or foreigners with impenetrable accents and so on.
    Rod.

    It's not IRLRosie. I have seen her too. The one I am thinking of
    relates specifically to a call received where the caller says the
    computer will crash and the woman utters the unforgettable line about
    whether she should surround it with airbags.

    is it possible that its not actually on youtube at all ?

    I wasn't limiting my search to YouTube. I have certainly seen it
    before - somewhere - and I used Google Chrome for my search.
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