Ring! Ring!
Me: IT Department, this is Daniel.
Caller: Hey, Dan! This is Steve, over at the pawn shop. Have you got a minute? I have a customer here, wanting to sell what he is calling a ‘Vintage’ laptop. Are 30 year old laptops actually worth anything?
Me: Steve, It’s not worth anything to you. It’s not even worth anything to the computer museums out in silicon valley.
Steve: OK. So this guys full of it? He’s telling me he upgraded it to support WIndows 10. Is that possible?
Me: Nope. It’s an 8-bit machine. Maybe 16-bit. Windows 10 requires a 64-bit processor to run. Get rid of him and give him some crap about arresting him for fraud if he ever returns.
Steve: Thanks, Dan. I appreciate the help.
Me: Anytime.
The lengths some people will go to, just to try to scam someone else out of their money.