I wonder how many of you have had this one?
"I'm from E Prediction Global" and we've got a message your computer has Errors" we'd like to fix this for you,
This call has been made twice to me,
"can you press CTRL WINDOWS and R we'll remove these errors for you"
Are you in front of your computer? - yes I replied,
What do you see when you press these buttons? A black screen I tell him
No no no something is wrong; he tells me
Oh? what? I ask
What can you see? I tell him I'm looking at porn. this throws him, it's not on his list of answers.
Try again mr Wally now what do you see? the same I tell him
Mr wally , you should have a box that allows us to access your computer.
where are you calling from? I ask
I'm in Glasgow city in Scotland.....
yeah right? who calls Glasgow "Glasgow city"?
Listen here, there's no way on god's green earth I'm giving you access to my PC now PISS OFF!
the last time they phoned it was
"I'm from Microsoft you PC license is about to expire, let me fix this?"
Erm no thanks, let it expire.
IMO they wanted access to steal private files, passwords and other stuff ....
take care
x
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"I'm from Microsoft you PC license is about to expire, let me fix this?"
Erm no thanks, let it expire.
IMO they wanted access to steal private files, passwords and other stuff ....
take care
x
Jeepers, no need for anyone to call to steal your files if you're using Microsoft software, your 'files/passwords are easy enough to pinch when you're online with their rubbish.
Microsoft? *spit*
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Quote by Joewally
I wonder how many of you have had this one?
"I'm from E Prediction Global" and we've got a message your computer has Errors" we'd like to fix this for you,
This call has been made twice to me,
"can you press CTRL WINDOWS and R we'll remove these errors for you"
Are you in front of your computer? - yes I replied,
What do you see when you press these buttons? A black screen I tell him
No no no something is wrong; he tells me
Oh? what? I ask
What can you see? I tell him I'm looking at porn. this throws him, it's not on his list of answers.
Try again mr Wally now what do you see? the same I tell him
Mr wally , you should have a box that allows us to access your computer.
where are you calling from? I ask
I'm in Glasgow city in Scotland.....
yeah right? who calls Glasgow "Glasgow city"?
Listen here, there's no way on god's green earth I'm giving you access to my PC now PISS OFF!
the last time they phoned it was
"I'm from Microsoft you PC license is about to expire, let me fix this?"
Erm no thanks, let it expire.
IMO they wanted access to steal private files, passwords and other stuff ....
take care
x
I had a very similar phone call went like this;
Ring Ring
Me, "hello"
Him, (sort of African type accent) "I'm from Windows repair service I think you have a problem with your computer"
Me, (deciding to play along), "yes, thank heavens you've called, its been driving me crazy"
Him (in a can't believe my luck type voice) "Are you in front of your computer?"
Me "yes"
Him, "press CTRL WINDOWS R"
Me, "OK"
Him, "Have you done that? what do you see"
Me, "A dialouge box has opened up"
Him (all exicted now) "what does it say"
Me "it says WARNING YOUR BEING SCAMMED BY A WANKER"
Him..................................
Sound of phone being replaced in Africa !!
John
Sex God
Aye, an increasingly common scam. The Windows-R just opens the Run dialog, they'll quite often ask you to key eventvwr here by all accounts which opens your Windows system logs. There are ALWAYS warnings and errors in Event Viewer, my Administrative Events is full of 'em, just the nature of the beast, which provides the 'proof' of the problems they're supposedly calling to fix.
I don't know they necessarily install trojans, key-loggers and the like, though they could as seems they usually ask you to start a remote session so they can 'fix' them, first asking for your credit card details of course, going rate reading around on this seems to be around the £75 quid mark. Nice little earner, even if only one out of every hundred falls for it.
Microsoft will never ring on a tech support issue without you instigating it first, and when they do they'll have your details from your support ticket. If they don't know to call you by your name it's a dead give away.
I don't know they necessarily install trojans, key-loggers and the like, though they could as seems they usually ask you to start a remote session so they can 'fix' them, first asking for your credit card details of course, going rate reading around on this seems to be around the £75 quid mark. Nice little earner, even if only one out of every hundred falls for it.
Microsoft will never ring on a tech support issue without you instigating it first, and when they do they'll have your details from your support ticket. If they don't know to call you by your name it's a dead give away. It's been going on for years. Google 'ammyy scam'. My record is 4 calls in a day, they sound like they're from the sub-continent but called John or Wayne. I've not had one for months now but it seems as if they are about to start again. I play with them, keep them talking and just bash random keys so they can hear me typing when they tell me to go to the ammyy site to install the remote control. When I get bored I tell them I've not got the internet or I've got an Apple. As an aside one of mrs nw friends did part with money to have her pc 'fixed' - I don't think anything bad happened apart from losing £70.
Sex God
Popular scam, though not exclusive to Windows as similarly played them along and mentioning Apple doesn't seem to interrupt some of them from their script.
This scam, which has been going on quietly since 2008 but has abruptly grown in scale this year.
Action Fraud, the UK’s national fraud reporting centre has its own page on Microsoft-related scams, , as does Microsoft itself .
In understanding how it happens, it's pretty simple as a British telephone number can be bought from companies such as for less than £4 per month and, of course, you don’t need to be anywhere near London to buy an 0203 telephone number. Simply conning one person into allowing them access to you computer and then charging you anywhere from £10 to £180 to remove something, when they are really usually installing Tojans and other Virus materials is pretty easy and profitable for them.
Sharon Lemon, deputy director of cyber crime at the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). "In recent cases, we have seen gangs employing 300-400 people to run their operations and using call centre-scale set ups to target victims en masse...... They can also be paying out as much as $150,000 a month (on a pay-per-download basis) to individual webmasters who are unwittingly advertising their fake software – this level of investment from criminals indicates that the returns are much heftier than this.”
You can see why it's a popular scam and one where Authorities led by the Federal Trade Commission – with some assistance from the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency – seized funds and closed down six cold-calling companies' operations following a global investigation recently.
Granted so long as people fall for this scam, they'll keep random calling people.
This scam, which has been going on quietly since 2008 but has abruptly grown in scale this year.
Action Fraud, the UK’s national fraud reporting centre has its own page on Microsoft-related scams, , as does Microsoft itself .
In understanding how it happens, it's pretty simple as a British telephone number can be bought from companies such as for less than £4 per month and, of course, you don’t need to be anywhere near London to buy an 0203 telephone number. Simply conning one person into allowing them access to you computer and then charging you anywhere from £10 to £180 to remove something, when they are really usually installing Tojans and other Virus materials is pretty easy and profitable for them.
Sharon Lemon, deputy director of cyber crime at the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). "In recent cases, we have seen gangs employing 300-400 people to run their operations and using call centre-scale set ups to target victims en masse...... They can also be paying out as much as $150,000 a month (on a pay-per-download basis) to individual webmasters who are unwittingly advertising their fake software – this level of investment from criminals indicates that the returns are much heftier than this.”
You can see why it's a popular scam and one where Authorities led by the Federal Trade Commission – with some assistance from the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency – seized funds and closed down six cold-calling companies' operations following a global investigation recently.
Granted so long as people fall for this scam, they'll keep random calling people.
I had that call..... as a Linux user...I knew it was a scam...so played along... needless to say It was sport for me and time wasting for them as much they asked me to do doesn't work on Linux... trouble is there are too many suckers out there... Microsoft and Apple have made it so many users accept their "locked down" systems that they feel disconnected when a fault or alleged fault occurs... oh well
Sex God
SG,
start talking about which Windows VM or other OS VM, and they can't hang up fast enough.
start talking about which Windows VM or other OS VM, and they can't hang up fast enough.
Warming the Bed
Using an I-pad successfully kills the call too 
