Posted on 08/24/2017 4:32:18 AM PDT by Dad was my hero
wish I had seen info on that. Like I said, they had so much exact information that they convinced me that they were the company I dealt with last year to help me with computer work.
Yes it was a scam. $10,000 shows up in your account, you send $9,800 back, then the $10,000 turns up to be a bad deposit and you are out $9,800.
Scammers are doing this on Craig’s List and various other internet sales. They want to buy your stuff and transfer you more money than the cost and you refund them the difference. Their transfer bounces and you are out the change.
Also, NEVER let anyone who is not your known computer help desk run team viewer on your computer.
I get three or more new scams daily. Since Obama became president my junk phone messages has increased 100 fold. I am on the state and federal do not call list. No one pays attention to that anymore. It would do Trump well to reintroduce stiff penalties again.
I get the names and numbers of all callers displayed on my phones and my TVs. Thanks Cablevision. I only answer callers I know. All others can leave a message
Not to mention all the email scams that are constantly on the lurk and become more and more sophisticated.
This stuff is way out of control.
I really don’t think so. As I wrote, I ran a mal ware scan immediately after and had Apple support check the computer files too. I think I’m safe there.
You messed up. I would have a professional look at your PC. They likely left a something you can’t see. JMHO
Good point. While TeamViewer was active they could have been downloading files from the computer and looking for lists of accounts and passwords.
I hope TeamViewer is not giving access to your computer every time you turn it on.
I got something similar last year from the “IRS”. They said, in thick accents, that my 90 year old dad owed taxes from 1982 and would be taking him to court.
I repeatedly asked for someone “who spoke English” and kept getting transferred.
Finally still not sure if this was really the IRS or not, I told them “see you in court” and hung up on ‘em.
Felt good.
You didn’t download malware. You downloaded a legit tool to access your computer. You need to find that software and delete it.
I did, it went to the trash, then deleted.
Try “YouMail.com”
It is possible to block entire blocks of number and shunt these spammers and spoofers to cell-phone hell.
I’ve never had a business need to communicate with me to issue a credit card refund, much less share the viewing the transaction on my computer.
I wonder if the ‘access your computer’ BS was so they could replace the text reflecting your balance with balance+10000 just to help convince you the made a transfer. Did the business you recall having a transaction have ‘exchange rates?’
Also, if anyone ever calls you from Windows support, hang up.
No exchange rates mentioned. But my account balances are all secure as of today so they didn’t have enough time to do anything.
Never trust an Indian or a Paki dog.
Today may be too late. Good luck.
well that’s an easy one since it is an Apple product. though I’ll keep that in mind since I work from home on a pc on the other side of the room from the iMac. ;^)
I offered this information so others who had not heard of this offshoot of the Nigerian scam information so they won't get as far into it as I did. Had I read about it before I wouldn't have ever gotten this far either.
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