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Posted on 10/21/2015 11:34:13 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Is it just my experience but are there an inordinate number of scammers out there recently? Its really shot up over the past year.
Popups and such claiming that your computer is infected is an old scam. However one is born every minute.
twice a month at my house:”microsoft windows here - we have detected a problem with your computer”
can barely understand them, the english is so bad
the long-distance switching and call-center pass off is so obvious
i tell ‘em I’m running Ubuntu - clueless
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twice a month at my house:”microsoft windows here - we have detected a problem with your computer”
can barely understand them, the english is so bad
the long-distance switching and call-center pass off is so obvious
i tell ‘em I’m running Ubuntu - clueless
Thinning the herd. Unfortunately, my wife would fall for one of these.
All apple users should understand that all such pop ups and items that appear to lock the computer should be shout down as follows:
Click the “apple” in the upper left hand corner of your screen. Select “force quit”. Select Safari from the listings. When Safari is re-opened, it may reload the same window grouping including the pop up. Force Quit again and then on re-start tell it not to open previous windows.
FYI—They have taken many of my elderly clients for money to the tune of at $600.00, in one case.. luckily they used a credit card, not a debit, and I was able to help them contact the CC company and get a refund...
Mine did but we got the charges canceled, the computer cleaned and a re-training session held.
Recently I had a guy with a think Indian accent (Pakistani?) identify himself as Dan Richmond with the IRS and tell me I was in big trouble if I didn’t cooperate and answer his questions. Which of course included what my SS number was.
“twice a month at my house: ‘microsoft windows here - we have detected a problem with your computer’”
I love it when I get those calls. It’s so much fun to goof on them, say I’m doing all the things they tell me to, keep them on the phone for 10 or 15 minutes. At some point they ask, “What do you see on the screen now?” I say, “I see the virgin Mary.” One guy screamed, “You see DA WIRGIN MARY?!?” I GUESS I scared him; he hung uP.
There are call centers everywhere in the Third World.
They can be used for good or evil. The equipment doesn’t change and often neither do the staff.
They rely on people’s tech addictions combined with ignorance, panic and lots of false but official soundng jargon.
I know of one poor sod who got a popup on his iPhone browser - a mere annoyance but he was convinced to call ‘Apple Support.’ Naturally, he didn’t even verify the 800 number matched the real support line. The scammer convinced him to connect his phone to his PC and THEN set up a remote session on the PC, expoaing him to untold horrors in keyloggers, spyware, etc. The usual Fear Uncertainty & Doubt routine followed along with a request for $270 to ‘fix the problem.’
Fortunately the phone owner snapped out of it in time but the scammer in Croatia, the Philippines or whereever had plenty of calls besides that one, I’ll wager.
We got the call about our daughter missing jury duty. I played along with the guy trying to figure out how they were going to get paid. He finally said “Come to the Sheriff’s department and we have a kiosk that allows you to pay via Paypal”. At that point I laughed and he knew he was done.
My wife’s “rich” aunt got taken for everything. She died penniless due to a Jamaican Lottery scam.
“mmm...what are you wearing, Dan? Mmmmm”
The Apple and Microsoft Windows brands don’t seem to take prompt action when someone is using their name for theft.
... Dan from BANGALORE.
You can’t get to them. They are using burn phones and number spoofing. The call we got was a local number.
“mmmmm...I bet it’s hot there, Dan. Are you hot? I bet you are, peeping in my Windows like that when I’m wearing my camisole. Mmmmm...”
Culturally, they have no idea how to handle a come-on from a guy.
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