So my phone rings today, our landline, and a guy on the other end tells my wife that he is with a group of computer security experts and→[More:] they have detected something amiss with our computer.

He then tries to guide her through some Windows commands when my wife got flustered and told her to call me. Later, he did, and I asked him who he was, what organization and he says, "Computer Cops." Where? "Orlando, Fla."

If you know so much about my computer, what kind do I have? "It's a windows operating system."

Wrong. . .we have Macs and do not have any Windows OS's on them.

He says, "Well in that case. . ." when I cut him off and said thanks, not interested.

I mean, my wife knows not to give out info, but I wonder if (if we'd had a Windows box) they could have given her any commands to type which would have compromised our computer.

Of course it was a masked number. . .

Anyone ever heard of this before?