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vanity- Heads up interesting spearfishing scam(computer security)
happened to me | 10/24/2013 | self

Posted on 10/24/2013 8:22:36 PM PDT by waynesa98

So I get a private call, dead air for a few seconds, then the phone rings back to the caller. Indian accented man answers claiming my computer is infected with a virus, no company name nothing. So I ask which computer. a few meaningless back and forth. Ask me to google teamviewer.com, instead of just going to teamviewer.com. wanted access to my system, wouldn't tell me the virus. did an off line scan anyway. So note to selfs, do not let anyone your not 100% sure is legit connect to your system with teamviewer


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: computers; security; virus
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To: kaehurowing

You still have a Wang?


21 posted on 10/24/2013 9:06:52 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: kaehurowing
I'm very partial to nixie tubes.

Though making a Freidan divide by zer0 is good sport too.

22 posted on 10/24/2013 9:07:46 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

People made some great airplanes with these.

23 posted on 10/24/2013 9:09:59 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: waynesa98

i know what they are and know what they do ima wondering how much job security there is for the IT guy cause it seems like hes been fixing lotsa more here lately and my 2 immediate overs are the smartest 2 men in the world and they are gonna fight till their is only one because there can be only one


24 posted on 10/24/2013 9:10:43 PM PDT by bigheadfred
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To: melsec
We had this a few months ago. They said they were from Microsoft and that my computer had a virus.

I had the same thing a couple of months ago. Some man with a strong Asian accent said he was from Microsoft and that they had detected that my computer had a virus that they needed to fix. He said I should go to a website and give him permission to access my computer in order to fix it.

I tried to draw him into a conversation by asking questions but he didn't seem to understand much English so I just hung up.

25 posted on 10/24/2013 9:12:03 PM PDT by oldbrowser (The debt limit is the emergency brake on government spending)
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To: oldbrowser

That happened to me once too. Sounded like India


26 posted on 10/24/2013 9:17:27 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: oldbrowser

They play the percentages - even if only 1% of calls let them in and they gain access to their banking details then it’s free money time!

Mel


27 posted on 10/24/2013 9:22:40 PM PDT by melsec (Once a Jolly Swagman camped by a Billabong.)
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To: Paladin2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S0BETniokI


28 posted on 10/24/2013 9:22:58 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: NautiNurse
We get these calls occasionally. I always tell them that we don't have a computer. "You don't even have a laptop?" Stifling my laughter, "What is that?"

When the clerk at the cash register asks for an email address I always say: "I'm not allowed to access a computer while I'm on probation."

That tends to discourage follow up questions.

29 posted on 10/24/2013 9:41:44 PM PDT by Pilsner
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To: waynesa98
This has to be a gag.
Nobody is that stupid!
31 posted on 10/24/2013 11:26:56 PM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
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To: cpdiii

I got into a swearing match with a caller from Africa and he kept shouting “I’m your father”. It was probably something vile in his native language but I started laughing at him and it made him even madder. I told him to call back when he had learned better profanity.


32 posted on 10/24/2013 11:27:35 PM PDT by alpo (What would Selco do?)
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To: Paladin2
I'm very partial to nixie tubes.

http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/wang720.html

33 posted on 10/24/2013 11:46:43 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Jack Hydrazine

“One would be to say that you don’t own a computer.”

I have 2 friends that don’t have a computer and don’t even know how to turn one on, they get along just fine.


34 posted on 10/25/2013 12:17:41 AM PDT by dalereed
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To: waynesa98; All
Lowbridge Scambaiting The 419 Email Scammers (FRANKLIN DUBE)

LOWBRIDGE RULES!

35 posted on 10/25/2013 1:52:11 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Paladin2
"People made some great airplanes with these."

Yes, but it wasn't easy. Sikorsky had rooms full of people, using these 8 hours a day, to solve a single rotor blade aerodynamic equation.

36 posted on 10/25/2013 5:15:23 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: cynwoody
We actually got to play with those calculators back in the day.

That's alotta tubes....

37 posted on 10/25/2013 6:39:24 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: kaehurowing

dam, my first corporate job was building a PBS tracking system on a wang mini, using minicalc. Can I come over to relive my ill begotten past?


38 posted on 10/25/2013 5:14:14 PM PDT by waynesa98
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