Just had my first PC scam phonecall :D

[DreemWarrior]

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.

 

[Phone Man]

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.

Jim

 

[geeve420]

So my question is, what are they trying to accomplish with this scam?

 

[Joan Archer]

I imagine to get control of your computer thereby stealing your particulars.

 

[mickey megabyte]

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.

 

[geeve420]

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

Geeve

 

[Jacee]

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 :warn:

 

[johnwillyums]

What's TPS Ciara?

 

[z3r010]

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

 

[mickey megabyte]

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...

 

[metalmania31]

I didn't realize they've become so brazen.

 

[MWRed]

If I ever got one of these calls, I couldn't help myself......i'd play on until he either got fed up, or until I told him i'm not stupid and falling for ur crap.

Or.
"Sir, we've detected that your pc has a virus"


Me:
"Oh, that's scary.......considering I don't have a pc. Ah, wait, you mean my imaginary pc has a virus? Well, let's get it fixed then, right away!"

Of course, I do, but he doesn't know that.

 

[mickey megabyte]

i suppose it all depends what sort of mood i was in at the time.

i may play along, winding them up, or i may just tell them to 'go away', rather impolitely.

 

[johnwillyums]

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

This is great. Thanks for that John. I've now registered with both, I really hadn't heard of either service. If it works I will be really pleased.

 

[Kari]

I'm jealous, geeks! Why don't they call me? I really want them to call me! Please scammers, try me! I'm easy to convince! I promise I'll let you at least to first base! Please call me!

Waiting to hear from you!

Kari

 

[smarteyeball]

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 :warn:

Yep. The approach can vary, but ultimately it's to let them remote in, install keyloggers etc and then mine your PC for details.

The other scam is to claim that they have 'found the virus' and can remove it for you on the spot for a fee. All you have to do is give them your CC details over the phone... and then they often still install nasties

It is brazen, but it works.

 

[DocBrown]

I'm jealous, geeks! Why don't they call me? I really want them to call me! Please scammers, try me! I'm easy to convince! I promise I'll let you at least to first base! Please call me!

Waiting to hear from you!

Kari

Kari,


Didn't you get this one ????

 

[Kari]

Yeah, Doc, I got that once again on St. Patrick's, but it wont work for me. Or at least it's too easy, after getting it to my rig I just had to restore an image.

I want challenge! I would let them in to a vm, to see what they are doing.

Kari

 

[geeve420]

I want challenge! I would let them in to a vm, to see what they are doing.

Kari

That would be funny, even funnier if you could preinfect your VM, so when they logged into it, they would get a nasty virus. Then you could offer to fix it for them. LOL!

Geeve

 

[Borg 386]

Unfortunately, social engineering remains one of the effective ways to compromise someones computer.

You can't be too paranoid nowadays when it comes to computer safety.