Teamviewer scam - beware

I'm sorry, but if a person believes it is Microsoft calling, out-of-the-blue, unsolicited, then in some ways, they deserve to be taken advantage of. That's hard for me to say, because I hate scammers as much as any other type of person, but it becoming the way I feel. People hide behind a lack of computing knowledge to cover up their lack of common sense and reasoning.

Hi

This is kiran from uk. i gone through similler kind of situation. now, my question is me and my firends living in same house. one of my firend desktop happen to install teamviewer software. he gave the userid and password and they show some scrap.
they told him because of that ur systeam not getting internet. and these conversation happen for 3-5 min. then he realised and close the pages. after 20 min he take off the internet wire from the systeam.

Now i am thiniking we all use same router. so is it gone make any problem for other pcs?

please answer as soon as early

Thanks

echrada said:

A customer of mine have just had someone pull this on them. Someone called her and said there is something wrong with your computer and we need to check it. (She is an oldie with no real knowledge of computer security).

She was told to switch on her machine and walked through how to download Teamviewer. Once they were in, with her permission, they could do what they liked. Luckily she does not do any e-banking. She does however use her card to do e-shopping.

When she was asked to pay for the service over a 'secure line' she did smell a rat and told them to get off her machine. However, they could have left a keystroke trojan in her machine. I have told her to switch her machine off and not use it until I can get there tomorrow to check everything out.

Please take note there are a lot of people out there ready to scam anybody - especially the vulnerable.

Hi there,

i seen ur answer...thanks for ur help... i have one more question..during the time is there any chance to install any kind of key stroke kind of softwares.

DocBrown said:

TeamViewer is safe when used properly. Normally each time the program is run it sets up a new random password needed. Unless you set it to run at windows startup with a permanent password. This can always be changed to a new password. As long as TeamViewer is not running, you should be safe. Careful who you give out the password to if you have it running.

See my TeamViewer Tutotial at the bottom of my SIG

Any questions, just ask.

Hi there

This is kiran chalasani i asked one question about teanviewer. now my quetion is, we are actually sharing router. so, does it make any problem to other systeam.

echrada said:

A customer of mine have just had someone pull this on them. Someone called her and said there is something wrong with your computer and we need to check it. (She is an oldie with no real knowledge of computer security).

She was told to switch on her machine and walked through how to download Teamviewer. Once they were in, with her permission, they could do what they liked. Luckily she does not do any e-banking. She does however use her card to do e-shopping.

When she was asked to pay for the service over a 'secure line' she did smell a rat and told them to get off her machine. However, they could have left a keystroke trojan in her machine. I have told her to switch her machine off and not use it until I can get there tomorrow to check everything out.

Please take note there are a lot of people out there ready to scam anybody - especially the vulnerable.

DeaconFrost said:

I'm sorry, but if a person believes it is Microsoft calling, out-of-the-blue, unsolicited, then in some ways, they deserve to be taken advantage of. That's hard for me to say, because I hate scammers as much as any other type of person, but it becoming the way I feel. People hide behind a lack of computing knowledge to cover up their lack of common sense and reasoning.

This of course is not a politically correct thing to say but I tend to agree with you....
WWW education, safety & all that implies is the responsibility of each person venturing into the ether.