Phone Scam: Your computer isnt working properly

ITS_A_BADGER

Answered the phone to a women on the landline from a foreign woman claiming to be from windows 7 and that there was something wrong with my computer. She wanted me to go to the computer and give her access to it.
they are just looking to steal your personal info from your computer and infect it with virus. Im sure people are smart enough to know this is obviously a trick, But just inform people who might not be great at computers and go along with the person on the phone because they are from the computer crowd

Ghost Buster

ITS_A_BADGER wrote: »

Answered the phone to a women on the landline from a foreign woman claiming to be from windows 7 and that there was something wrong with my computer. She wanted me to go to the computer and give her access to it.
they are just looking to steal your personal info from your computer and infect it with virus. Im sure people are smart enough to know this is obviously a trick, But just inform people like your parents who might not be great at computers and go along with the person on the phone because they are from the computer crowd

Unless shes a medium my parents are quite safe.
As for myself I have a mac so it is always working just fine:p

Celly Smunt

Ghost Buster wrote: »

As for myself I have a mac so it is always working underperforming just fine:p

Nino Brown

That scam has been going for a while. They try to get you to give them access to your computer using logmein, and then try to sell you antivirus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuCFlR-YNdc

Micky Dolenz

Sounds legit.

.Henry Sellers.

Finally a sex chat that rings you up.

tricky D

Long thread on it

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055837564

griffdaddy

ITS_A_BADGER wrote: »

Answered the phone to a women on the landline from a foreign woman claiming to be from windows 7

She was from Windows 7? What was she, Microsoft Office or something?

ITS_A_BADGER

griffdaddy wrote: »

She was from Windows 7? What was she, Microsoft Office or something?

LOL yeah she said she was from windows 7 and my computer isnt working properly, She could have at least said she was bill gates at least that would have been a bit more on the ball but not by much

ITS_A_BADGER

tricky D wrote: »

Long thread on it

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055837564

ah apologies feel free to close this one so

Cee-Jay-Cee

I got a call from these scammers about a year ago. I knew of the scam and played along with them giving them bull**** answers to all the questions they were asking and playing real dumb. After about ten minutes of me playing the idiot and pretending that i couldn't get the mouse to work and yer man trying to talk me through it I said got it working, he spent about another 10 minutes trying to get my IP address, I kept giving him diffetent random numbers. I strung him along for at least 20 minutes in total at which point I told him that I was tired playing with him and I hope the call didn't cost him too much and that I wasnt even in front of a computer but sitting in my garage on a ride on lawn mower and hung up.

Grandeeod

I know my computer is not working properly.

nice_very

where is the "any key"?

o1s1n

ITS_A_BADGER wrote: »

claiming to be from windows 7

'you're calling me from inside my computer?!!?!'

Duggy747

Ghost Buster wrote: »

As for myself I have a mac so it is always working just fine:p

Well, that didn't take long to Apple up the thread....

gg2

Had a similar call about a month ago I asked where they got my number and they said I filled in a form when I bought my computer. I said I didn't. They argued a bit so I asked them what my name was. Patrick they said. Patrick.

My name isn't Patrick.

razorblunt

gg2 wrote: »

Had a similar call about a month ago I asked where they got my number and they said I filled in a form when I bought my computer. I said I didn't. They argued a bit so I asked them what my name was. Patrick they said. Patrick.

My name isn't Patrick.

If they said Paddy you'd have them for racism.

Shenshen

That one is hilarious, they rang me once or twice last year.

Now, my husband and me are a little on the geeky side, so there are more than one computer in the house.
None of them were running Windows at the time.

They usually fell at the first hurdle

Them : "Your computer isn't working."
Me : "Which one of them?"
Them : "Your computer..."
Me : "Fair enough, but which one?"
Them : "Your Windows isn't working properly"
Me : "Lads, you've got the wrong number. Thanks for calling."

Cungi

When they introduce themselves i pause and the let forth an unmerciful scream that sounds like Satan roaring from the depths of hell.

They hang up and my lungs n vocal cords get a good workout.

theidiots

CJC999 wrote: »

I got a call from these scammers about a year ago. I knew of the scam and played along with them giving them bull**** answers to all the questions they were asking and playing real dumb. After about ten minutes of me playing the idiot and pretending that i couldn't get the mouse to work and yer man trying to talk me through it I said got it working, he spent about another 10 minutes trying to get my IP address, I kept giving him diffetent random numbers. I strung him along for at least 20 minutes in total at which point I told him that I was tired playing with him and I hope the call didn't cost him too much and that I wasnt even in front of a computer but sitting in my garage on a ride on lawn mower and hung up.

I did this as well and they started call me an irish prick and abusing me, was quite funny

Where To

I always wheel out Blondie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWhkbDMISl8

spankysue

They keep ringing my workplace lately, and it's getting on all our nerves, me boss even whistled loudly down the phone at them yesterday.

I played along with them a few days ago though, let them give me the whole script about windows not working, asked them if they could tell if my PC was on, they said yes, then I told them "Well that's funny 'cause it's off being repaired", silence, then click