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Rodus
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Joined: 13 Dec 2006
Posts: 3685
Location: Back under the cold shower
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Tue Feb 23, 2010 6:18 pm |
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Just a heads up for UK based folks. These guys (computer maintenance services) seem to be phoning around people telling them that they are contacting them about a previously raised computer virus issue. They claim to be London based but are not (probably India), they refuse to give out phone numbers, contact details or the name of the person who allegedly contacted them about the problem. Needless to say, this is a scam so tell them to get lost, at best they will rip off your card details, at worst they will direct you to a site which hosts a trojan (masquerading as anti virus), infect your machine and nick all your logins, so beware. |
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Technomancer
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Joined: 08 Dec 2009
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Location: Sailing the infinite sea of the Net
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Tue Feb 23, 2010 7:37 pm |
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Grr... It's creeps like this that give legit freelance computer techs a bad name.
Any way to bait/hurt these guys? |
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Happy_Slacker
419Eater is my life
Joined: 09 Apr 2007
Posts: 291
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Tue Feb 23, 2010 7:46 pm |
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I am sure there is. Why not 'go along' with the scam; act like you are 'following' their directions, and they think that you are 'installing' the trojan virus. Listen to how frustrated they get when they are unable to connect to said victims machine for 'helping' out, and then blame THEM for their crappy directions.
That is if thats what they are offering, if not either way, just act like you are going along with their scheme, and when the call ends, maybe they will try to rack their brains on WHY they can't take control of the victim's computer they think they just compromised.
It may not be long lasting, but it would still waste their times a bit. |
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r2d2
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 19 Apr 2009
Posts: 796
Location: in a galaxy far far away
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Tue Feb 23, 2010 8:07 pm |
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curlyearl
419Eater is my life
Joined: 29 Aug 2009
Posts: 299
Location: Desert Rose Barstool
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Tue Feb 23, 2010 10:26 pm |
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Happy_Slacker
419Eater is my life
Joined: 09 Apr 2007
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Tue Feb 23, 2010 10:35 pm |
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How about this (this would be considered juvenile, but I think it would work well), act like you're in the restroom having a nice 'bowel movement' (to put it lightly), and certain times when you are talking to said scammer, suddenly strain your voice, also if you can find some 'fart' effects on the computer to accompany your 'straining'.
I know childish, but remember THEY called you, so... |
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john26
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Joined: 26 Mar 2010
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Fri Mar 26, 2010 8:44 pm |
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they also have a website http://www.techonsupport.com, which helps it look like a legit business.
UK number but it puts you through to the call centre in SE Asia.
the use prefetch to try and tell you its downloading dodgy programs and they use eventvwr to try and show that your computer isnt working properly.
they get you to download a logmein client . No idea what happens after that
£55 for one year.
I was talking to 3 different ones for for 40 mins today ! |
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Tigbitties
419Eater is my life
Joined: 15 Aug 2006
Posts: 402
Location: location, location
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Sat Mar 27, 2010 7:52 am |
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Happy_Slacker wrote: |
act like you're in the restroom having a nice 'bowel movement' (to put it lightly), and certain times when you are talking to said scammer, suddenly strain your voice, also if you can find some 'fart' effects on the computer to accompany your 'straining'. |
That’s uncanny Happy Slacker because I had exactly the same idea a few months ago.
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Happy_Slacker
419Eater is my life
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Sat Mar 27, 2010 5:02 pm |
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act like you're in the restroom having a nice 'bowel movement' (to put it lightly), and certain times when you are talking to said scammer, suddenly strain your voice, also if you can find some 'fart' effects on the computer to accompany your 'straining'.
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That’s uncanny Happy Slacker because I had exactly the same idea a few months ago.
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