Warning scam calls from Microsoft Server support.
After a call from my aged parents that they had received a call from Microsoft support last week saying their PC was sending emails to them. I
received one yesterday and wife had one today.
Yesterday :-
They terminated the call when I asked 'for the call reference no' and a 'number' I could call them back on when as I needed to
complete the following :-
switched on the 2 desktop PC's
found and switched on 3 laptops
switched in the 1 Mac Mini
got the Ipad from the wife
powered up the NAs drive
they hung up when I asked what was their IP address was so I could unblock my firewall <click>
Today ( wife took the call )
They got quite nasty insisting they were legitimate they hung up when she demanded a number to call them back on after checking there claims with our
Internet service provider.
There must be ways to stop these international scam calls !
anyway keep safe online tell your Kids, wife's and colleagues.
proper Microsoft advice is HERE
ATB Agriv8
[Edited on 30/7/14 by Agriv8]
[Edited on 30/7/14 by Agriv8]
screw microsoft go linux
This sort of scam has been going on for a while.... My gran had one a few years ago and was asked to go to some website which basically gave the
bar-stewards remote access to the machine...they found a load of "issues" and wanted her credit card details to fix them....
I guess a lot of people are too trusting of "experts" when it comes to technology they themselves know little about.... Shame on anyone
that takes advantage of that!
My record for wasting their time is 40 minutes so far. I will string them along, acting dumb before finally saying " you do realise I am using a Mac?" The streams of abuse after that are quite funny. I figure that all the while they are on the phone to me, they are not conning some old dear out of her money.
Sadly I discovered last week that my dad had handed over about £350 to one of these sorts of scams in the last few weeks so a timely warning, obviously they're active at the moment. Dad is 67 and had no idea that for £350 he could have thrown his current PC in the bin and replaced it with something brand new... A good prompt for people out there to check in with any 'older' people they know who might get ripped off like this...
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Originally posted by jps
Sadly I discovered last week that my dad had handed over about £350 to one of these sorts of scams in the last few weeks so a timely warning, obviously they're active at the moment. Dad is 67 and had no idea that for £350 he could have thrown his current PC in the bin and replaced it with something brand new... A good prompt for people out there to check in with any 'older' people they know who might get ripped off like this...
My best shot was 35 minutes and 3 call backs - I kept therm going with booting up my computer and the need for long, very misunderstood (by me) explanations of what to do until just before i gave them access to my Computer then said - wait a minute a visitor has just arrived could they call back - then at the call back I replied that visitor was still there - then on final call back kept them going a while getting my computer booted up etc and then said that visitor was my son and that he had told me they were scam artists and that i was to hang up - which I did.
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Originally posted by Agriv8 I have programed Mum and Dad the stock answer is "my son fixes my laptop give me your number and a call reference and I will get him to call you back"
I normally ask "WHAT ARE YOU WEARING" in a Moe Szyslak voice.
I normally turn it round on them. :-
Oh hello, just for your information I must let you know that your phone call IS being recorded for legal purposes and I am to understand that you wish
to make use of my patronage of your company. For this I have standard fees of £50,000 in the first instance and then monthly return remittances by
your selves of £10,000 per calender month until the expiry of my standard 5 year contract. Any photos or graphics that can be attributed to me are at
the rate of £250,000 per use and any written lineage at £25,000 per standard column inch. All I need now is for you to make a verbal agreement to this
over the phone now by you as a representative of your company giving me a recorded verbal agreement to the affirmative of this and your details WILL
be traced by my legal team and any and all recompensed WILL be pursued by my legal team with a track record of 100% in ALL courts of law. Now, do you
agree to these terms and conditions. .............
Some times I've managed to keep them going for half and hour trying to get them to say yes, before they hang up, it IS so funny.
I posted a little while back asking for prople's views on the effectiveness of the BT call blocker phones.
I have since acquired one, it helps a little, but the system will only take a message from 'unavailable' numbers.
What would be ideal is a call blocker that will simply block all 'withheld' and 'unavailable' numbers.
As it is, all the 'Vault' and other scammers numbers that regularly pester me are at least on the blocker list.
It's endless, criminal and simply wrong that the amount of scammery I have to endure simply to have a phoneline.
TPS is simply not working.
I know that this may sound a bit geeky, but, I decided to have ago with a Linux package astlinux, it is a pbx system, an old thin client HP-T5700 is
the computer 512 Meg ram and 512 meg flash. Anyway, I have it as a home pbx system, it now answers all incoming calls and plays a message of
'Please hold while we try to connect you', then will start ringing internal phones (SIP Based).
The amount of day time and night time callers from companies like window sales men, British Gas etc we pick up to has dropped to zero. They still
ring, but clear down as soon as they get the message as they think they have a commercial number or they think they have an automated system on the
line. It was a challenge to learn how to use but has had this wonderful benefit.
Adrian
we have caller id and panasonic phones. when someone in our phone book calls it rings and says their name, if they are not in the phone book it calls out the number or says private caller if its withheld. if we don't know it we let the answer phone pickup.
I've started doing this by going.. (shouting as if in a hurry)
HELLO TRANSPORT!..
Hello can I speak to Mr. Coozer please...
YOUR THROUGH TO TRANSPORT CAN I HAVE YOUR REFERENCE NUMBER?
Errm, can I
REFERENCE FOR YOUR DELIVERY!
Oh, sorry we must have the wrong number I'll remove it from our system...
This all came to me as I was trying to get into the Tescos RDC in Livingston.. because I couldnt find the correct number he just went 'good
bye' and hung up leaving me stuck at the gate with a Q of Stobarts wan.... err, drivers behind me
It all helps that this is in fact the transport office so all above board so they say...
Loads of baiting of these scum on youtube...
this one had me laughing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhqxOFH2rmI
Cheers,
James