Another scam ?

jake is right · 02-03-2019 7:46pm #1

Phone call from local number (will try to recover number), "Emily" tells.you that your WiFi will be switched off in 24 hours. Guess what..........the way to avoid this is to dial 1 to "speak with our technition"
I've had these calls daily for a couple of weeks.

Mrcaramelchoc · 02-03-2019 7:47pm

jake is right wrote: »

Phone call from local number (will try to recover number), "Emily" tells.you that your WiFi will be switched off in 24 hours. Guess what..........the way to avoid this is to dial 1 to "speak with our technition"
I've had these calls daily for a couple of weeks.

Yes hang up

Tom Mann Centuria · 02-03-2019 7:48pm

Definitely a scam, or possibly scamola.

odyssey06 · 02-03-2019 7:48pm

Total scam. Thousands of people have been getting those calls.
https://irelandstechnologyblog.com/eir-phone-scam-what-you-need-to-know-e75565853b7d

TheValeyard · 02-03-2019 7:50pm

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

Definitely a scam, or possibly scamola.

is_that_so · 02-03-2019 7:51pm

jake is right wrote: »

Phone call from local number (will try to recover number), "Emily" tells.you that your WiFi will be switched off in 24 hours. Guess what..........the way to avoid this is to dial 1 to "speak with our technition"
I've had these calls daily for a couple of weeks.

The number is spoofed and changes so it would make no difference. Not saying anything at all can cause "her" to disconnect as they are voice activated. Otherwise hang up immediately.

odyssey06 · 02-03-2019 7:52pm

Similar discussion here...
https://www.boards.ie/ttfthread/2057888561/1

Can see people giving up landlines cos of it. Don't bother contacting Eir about it as their call centre is a joke, and they are useless.

Pythagorean · 02-03-2019 11:28pm

I have had a bellyfull of these calls for the last month or so. The number always comes up on the caller id, but it keeps changing. I keep blocking it, but it keeps coming again, from a different number. The odd thing is, when I do answer, or dial 1, it just goes back to dialling tone. I don't see what the point of it is, if it is a scam it's a very ineffective one.

anewme · 03-03-2019 11:26am

My Mum( 72) pressed 1 to apeak to the Technician out of curiousity. It was a foreign oerson.

He said she had been hacked, but not to worry, all she had to do was switch on her laptop or tablet, key in what he told her and he could then remotely dial in and clear it.

She told him he was looking to clear her Bank account.

Shes no computer, laptop or broadband connection.