Our friend Patti called and said someone called her and said they were from Microsoft Tech support. Supposedly, they had heard that she was having trouble with her installation of Windows. She started to give them personal information and then thought: “What’s up? Is this for real?” This is scary. And it happens all the time. Rather than spending any more time with the crooks on the phone, Patti hung up and gave Doug a call. He spent some time with her computer to verify that they hadn’t added anything inappropriate to her computer, but their scam is to convince …