“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflections.” — Thomas Paine

As more and more people become acquainted by the tricks used by internet scammers and cybercriminals, so they are pressed to find new social engineering tricks in their hope of tricking the unwary.

One of the schemes we have heard of involves unsolicited calls via Skype, where an automated message (what I like to call a “Digital Dorothy”) warns you in a semi-robotic voice that your computer’s security is not up-to-date.

A Naked Security reader has pointed us to the following YouTube video, showing just such a scam call caught on camera. Fortunately, in this case, the recipient of the bogus call about his computer’s security was wise to the scam and knew not to act upon it.

Warning: Some of the language used in this video is a little fruity.