It must be scam time!!!

[roseyweb]

Got stung by your police mag a few years ago, I never paid but they sure tried hard to get there money including getting the debt collectors in

[detritus21]

The first one is typical yell.con territory

[Treewolf]

I use one of these - Trucall call blocker

 

Works really well on a domestic line.

[NFG]

Hi all,

 

Best one Ive had was a call from 'Microsoft Technical Support' (who never call anyone) to tell me my PC had a virus. This is a fairly well known scam.

 

Needless to say they got told to Foxtrott Oscar.

 

 

N

[Shane]

I use one of these - Trucall call blocker

 

Works really well on a domestic line.

 

Looks interesting, I like the idea of screening out witheld numbers - my phone supplier said they couldn't do that with their technology!

 

How much does it cost?

[Marc Lewis]

Hi all,

 

Best one Ive had was a call from 'Microsoft Technical Support' (who never call anyone) to tell me my PC had a virus. This is a fairly well known scam.

 

Needless to say they got told to Foxtrott Oscar.

 

 

N

 

My wife had this call last year while I was at work. She was told our computer had a virus and was in a critical situation and would crash imminently. Again told to switch on computer and started playing around moving stuff on screen in front of her. They told her they could fix it for a fee of about £150. She told them she wanted to speak to me first but they tried strong arming her saying 'it needs doing immediately'. That's when she realised something fishy maybe going on. My wife said she would wait to speak to me and take her chances before hanging up. They can come across very plausible until you start making life a little hard for them and then they can start getting a bit aggressive. For the record, I don't think Microsoft ever ask for money over the phone. The computer never crashed!!!!

[mendiplogs]

My wife had this call last year while I was at work. She was told our computer had a virus and was in a critical situation and would crash imminently. Again told to switch on computer and started playing around moving stuff on screen in front of her. They told her they could fix it for a fee of about £150. She told them she wanted to speak to me first but they tried strong arming her saying 'it needs doing immediately'. That's when she realised something fishy maybe going on. My wife said she would wait to speak to me and take her chances before hanging up. They can come across very plausible until you start making life a little hard for them and then they can start getting a bit aggressive. For the record, I don't think Microsoft ever ask for money over the phone. The computer never crashed!!!!

 

HI MATE well done you mate for not handing over your money mate theres some low lifes about mate thanks jon

[NFG]

My wife had this call last year while I was at work. She was told our computer had a virus and was in a critical situation and would crash imminently. Again told to switch on computer and started playing around moving stuff on screen in front of her. They told her they could fix it for a fee of about £150. She told them she wanted to speak to me first but they tried strong arming her saying 'it needs doing immediately'. That's when she realised something fishy maybe going on. My wife said she would wait to speak to me and take her chances before hanging up. They can come across very plausible until you start making life a little hard for them and then they can start getting a bit aggressive. For the record, I don't think Microsoft ever ask for money over the phone. The computer never crashed!!!!

 

Hi,

 

Very well done to your O/H for sussing the scam, top marks! correct MS will never call customers directly.

 

It did make me smile as we are Mac based & being a techie for many years they are rather well defended & sit behind a very strong two tier firewall.

 

N

 

N

[Treewolf]

Looks interesting, I like the idea of screening out witheld numbers - my phone supplier said they couldn't do that with their technology!

 

How much does it cost?

 

IIRC it was about £100.

 

I have a caller ID device on the line into the house (so it records all incoming calling numbers upstream of the Truecall), and it is is really interesting to see the number of calls which now never make it as far as the phone. Probably stops about 5 to 10 unwanted calls a day, and that's to a TPS-registered number. Best gadget I have bought in years!

[NFG]

Hi all

 

Ive noticed the increasing sophistication of some malware attacks, this one is not detected by a lot of AV software and is using the Zeus botnet to attack:

 

The link below is to Sophos

 

Information regarding the Cryptolocker ransomware Trojan making the rounds | Sophos Blog

 

The attack arrives in the form of an e-mail from companies house, encrypts files on your PC using asymmetric encryption then demands $300 to provide the key to unlock them, I suspect anyone's CC number will also be stolen if they submit & pay, the cypher is strong.

 

The problem here is if you remove the trojan your files remain encrypted & thus lost (unless the cypher can be broken).

 

Yet another good reason to control spam, use good AV & backup your data.

 

N