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Mickymoody
I saw this in the teletext, and thought surely nobody would fall for that...
Then I get a call from my Mother, she was cold called, someone pestering her, you have several viruses on your computer, she needed time to compute, as this was early morning, they said they would call back..
Which they did, they convinced my mother to log onto the computer, make several changes, they then accessed her computer, installed virals on her computer, to buy antivirus software, said that AVG doesn't work, and that she is open to attack, then after an hour or so, finally came up with the creme de la creme, if you DON'T pay for this software, we will reinstall all these (fictional) viruses back onto your computer, that we just removed free of charge.
I presume the number left for a callback is also a premium rate number, as all of it is a scam.
They even installed a blatant web pop up, easily removed.. But I worry, about any hidden nasties they have planted.
I previously heard of this scam, being based on the Isle of Mann, and maybe someone arrested?
My mum is pretty tech savvy, but happy shopper, but I thought - not that naive...so if you have friends, family, that use a computer, but don't control it....Watch out for this scam.
This has been reported to trading standards.
People that post are generally more tech savvy than the people they know, so spead the word.
If someone rang me, saying my compy is fubar...cold calling, I'd be onto the Police immediately..but people close to me didn't see that, so how many other people have been hacked, without full knowledge, of what they did?
I'd willingly go door to door, for free and accept to restore their computer to hacker free. I'm sure thousands, if not millions worldwide have been affected by this scam?
Have you any experience of this scam? It was in the news? Then that kills spam. And fraud.
Then I get a call from my Mother, she was cold called, someone pestering her, you have several viruses on your computer, she needed time to compute, as this was early morning, they said they would call back..
Which they did, they convinced my mother to log onto the computer, make several changes, they then accessed her computer, installed virals on her computer, to buy antivirus software, said that AVG doesn't work, and that she is open to attack, then after an hour or so, finally came up with the creme de la creme, if you DON'T pay for this software, we will reinstall all these (fictional) viruses back onto your computer, that we just removed free of charge.
I presume the number left for a callback is also a premium rate number, as all of it is a scam.
They even installed a blatant web pop up, easily removed.. But I worry, about any hidden nasties they have planted.
I previously heard of this scam, being based on the Isle of Mann, and maybe someone arrested?
My mum is pretty tech savvy, but happy shopper, but I thought - not that naive...so if you have friends, family, that use a computer, but don't control it....Watch out for this scam.
This has been reported to trading standards.
People that post are generally more tech savvy than the people they know, so spead the word.
If someone rang me, saying my compy is fubar...cold calling, I'd be onto the Police immediately..but people close to me didn't see that, so how many other people have been hacked, without full knowledge, of what they did?
I'd willingly go door to door, for free and accept to restore their computer to hacker free. I'm sure thousands, if not millions worldwide have been affected by this scam?
Have you any experience of this scam? It was in the news? Then that kills spam. And fraud.