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Beware of the Ammyy Scam

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  • #52
    Macumazan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34 ✭Macumazan


    Láidir wrote: »
    They rang me five minutes ago, the number began with 00253 which is a place called Djibouti. I've never heard of it. Told them not to contact me again.

    It's a very beautiful country in Africa. Sadly you get a lot of scammers there like in any country.

    If they call me I'll tell them I've been a Linux user for 5 years now, see how that goes down. :-)


  • #53
    Macumazan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34 ✭Macumazan


    syklops wrote: »
    Yes and no. While there are advanced anti-VM techniques out there, the chances of this particular piece of malware employing them is unlikely. In fact a lot of malware simply tries to detect if it is running on a VM and kills/exits itself if it does detect a VM because VMs are primarily used for disassembling and analysing malware.

    I run Linux natively, and then run Windows inside a VM, so even if my VM software somehow gets taken over, it is running as an unprivileged user and so can't change very much on my machine.

    Sounds very sensible. I have an old Windows laptop I keep for when guests come over and just have to use a Windows machine but always tell them it's at their own risk...!


  • #54
    Macumazan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34 ✭Macumazan


    chiefohara05 wrote: »
    Yep, the scam is still running

    I keep getting phone calls from these people who want me to go to ammyy.

    I keep them on the line as long as i can, i don't download anything, but i get them to explain everything over and over again. Just to frustrate and waste their time.

    Last time i pretended to be a one armed simpleton who kept having to put down the phone to type in the keys and deliberately misspelling everything i was asked to type.

    Today i went along with it for about 30 mins then told him the scam artist that i was a policeman and he was after ringing a policestation. He asked me if i was tracing the call, i said yes, he said where am i? I told him that he was in a gay bar. Guy got very nasty after that :)

    I use these scum as an opportunity to have fun

    Ha ha great :-) see www.419eater.com to record your success next time!


  • #55
    Mark.87
    Closed Accounts Posts: 91 ✭✭Mark.87


    Anyone like that calls me I just say dont have a computer, it gets them every time... they sound so puzzled and shocked!


  • #56
    Macumazan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34 ✭Macumazan


    Mark.87 wrote: »
    Anyone like that calls me I just say dont have a computer, it gets them every time... they sound so puzzled and shocked!

    Perhaps this an honest telesales outsourcing company who have been duped by a scammer into harvesting people's CC info? Might explain people's shock - or maybe it's just because people in India think every Westerner drives a Ferrari and has a laptop?


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