Just had my first PC scam phonecall :D

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  1. DreemWarrior
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    Windows 7 ultimate X64
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    Me: "- sorry, do you mean left click with the mouse thingy?"


    LMAO!

    Wow thats crazy. I've never heard of that scam. Good job there man.
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  3. Phone Man
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    Anak said:
    Phone Man said:
    Anak said:

    REMEMBER: Cell Phone Numbers went Public last month March 1st.
    REMINDER..... All cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sales calls.


    All I can say is it came in an email from my Sister-in-law, It might have something to do with this: Over 2.4 Million Cell Phone Numbers Made Public in First Phase of New Phone Directory - Press Release

    I stand corrected, and will make a clarification.
    That is the problem with the Internet. Lots of phony e-mails and people just believe them and forward to their friends. snopes.com: Urban Legends Reference Pages is a good source to check them out.

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  4. geeve420
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    So my question is, what are they trying to accomplish with this scam?
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  6. Joan Archer
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       New #24

    I imagine to get control of your computer thereby stealing your particulars.
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  7. mickey megabyte
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    geeve420 said:
    So my question is, what are they trying to accomplish with this scam?
    afaik, they eventually talk you into installing teamviewer or similar, then once they're in control of your pc, who knows what they install onto it?


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    off topic: hey that's interesting - i typed 'a-f-a-i-k' (without the hyphens), but the forum spat out 'As far as I know,' - when i go to edit my post, i can still see my original a-faik.
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  8. geeve420
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    I see, guess I will wait to see if I get this call and confuse them by saying I have no orb or start bar because I run Linux. should be a good time :)

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  10. Jacee
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    mickey megabyte said:
    geeve420 said:
    So my question is, what are they trying to accomplish with this scam?
    afaik, they eventually talk you into installing teamviewer or similar, then once they're in control of your pc, who knows what they install onto it?
    Credit Card
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  11. johnwillyums
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    What's TPS Ciara?
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  12. z3r010
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    johnwillyums said:
    What's TPS Ciara?
    Come on John this is a must for everybody in the UK, stop all unwanted UK marketing/sales phone calls

    TPS Registration

    Also to stop junk mail

    MPS online
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  13. mickey megabyte
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       New #30

    telephone preference service - to stop junk calls.

    i assume.

    **oops, the other john got there first**

    now if only there was an eps for email...
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