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| Registered: March 10, 2009 | | Posts: 2,248 |
| | Posted: | | | | Got a phone call from the scammers pretending to be employees of Microsoft. They will know your name by using telephone directories.
There operation was targeting people in England but now seems there trying to target people in Scotland. All i can say is thankfully i picked up the phone round at my mothers otherwise she might have fell for this.
She is seriously terrible with computers.
Don't know if any of you guys have had this happing. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,946 |
| | Posted: | | | | A while ago I received a call on my fixed home line. A recorded message told me I was selected to win a trip. To participate I had to press *9 or some combination of that order. I just hung up. This type of actions allow scammers to make international calls at your expense. | | | View my collection at http://www.chriskepolis.be/home/dvd.htm
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  | Eagle | | Registered: Oct 31, 2001 |
| Registered: March 15, 2007 |  Posts: 563 |
| | Posted: | | | | It's reasons like this that lead me in the past to use a fake name for my directory listing. I haven't checked lately, but a while back it cost extra to have an unlisted number, but there was no cost for simply using another name for directory purposes. | | | | My phpDVDprofiler collection |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting cvermeylen: Quote:
A while ago I received a call on my fixed home line. A recorded message told me I was selected to win a trip. To participate I had to press *9 or some combination of that order. I just hung up. This type of actions allow scammers to make international calls at your expense. This is only a problem if you are on a PBX system, where you have to dial 9 to get an external line. It doesn't work on residential or cell lines. Snopes | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar | | | | Last edited: by TheMadMartian |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Eagle: Quote:
It's reasons like this that lead me in the past to use a fake name for my directory listing. I haven't checked lately, but a while back it cost extra to have an unlisted number, but there was no cost for simply using another name for directory purposes. For a couple of years while I was in the Air Force my phone number was listed under the name Dante Alighieri. Worked great until under Project Transition I was assigned to a radio station and the program manager decided my on air name should be Dante. So I went back to putting my phone under my real name. Fewer people know my real name than those who know my various pseudonyms. | | | If it wasn't for bad taste, I wouldn't have no taste at all.
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| Registered: January 27, 2009 |  Posts: 181 |
| | Posted: | | | | Here in New Zealand it has been a common problem for ages.
The best thing to do is "string" them along. One guy had them on the phone for over an hour until he tired of it and told them his system was a MAC.
Another good one I have seen done is to create a virtual PC that you give them access to, then log all the spyware and tools they install on it.
Their favourite tatic to "scare" people is to tell them to look in the event viewer. There are always errors in there, and you can scare people into thinking they are major virius etc. Then they get you to go to a website, that then downloads keyloggers, access software etc. |
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| Registered: March 10, 2009 | | Posts: 2,248 |
| | Posted: | | | | This is the women that phoned my mothers. Some guy stringing her along. Most ammusing  I contacted my local police station to warn them they where targeting the area. Lot of old folk round here. | | | | Last edited: by ShinyDiscGuy |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 5,734 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Skip: Quote:
Some guy stringing her along. LO | | | | Don't confuse while the film is playing with when the film is played. [Ken Cole, DVD Profiler Architect] |
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