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Phone Scam: Your computer isnt working properly

  • 28-02-2013 05:57PM
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    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


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 Ghost Buster
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    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


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 Celly Smunt
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    As for myself I have a mac so it is always working underperforming just fine:p

    ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,507 Nino Brown
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    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 Micky Dolenz
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    Sounds legit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 567 .Henry Sellers.
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    Finally a sex chat that rings you up.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,698 tricky D
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,412 griffdaddy
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    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?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,232 ITS_A_BADGER
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    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 :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,232 ITS_A_BADGER
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    tricky D wrote: »

    ah apologies :o feel free to close this one so


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 Cee-Jay-Cee
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    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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,318 Grandeeod
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    I know my computer is not working properly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,723 nice_very
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    where is the "any key"?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,024 o1s1n
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    claiming to be from windows 7

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 Duggy747
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    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....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,082 gg2
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    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 razorblunt
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    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 Shenshen
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    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."


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 486 Cungi
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    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.


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    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 Where To
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    I always wheel out Blondie



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 591 spankysue
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    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 :D


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