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Post by Elkay on May 14, 2012 11:26:17 GMT 1
I just received a phone call from a woman who spoke English, knew my married name and said she was going to connect me to a microsoft engineer as they keep getting error reports from our computer. She wanted me to go to logmein123.com but I 'smelled a rat' at that point and told her NO.
It is a bit scary that someone knows my name, knows I am English and actually had me believeing her for a minute or two - but then I realised (amongst other things) that the computer is registered in my other name (one of them, tehe) anyway, so if it was really microsoft they would have asked for me by that name!
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Post by troll on May 14, 2012 11:37:02 GMT 1
A bit worrying, Elkay, thanks for the heads-up.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2012 12:26:49 GMT 1
Sad thing is that there must be a lot of people who fall into the trap.
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Post by tinkerbell on May 14, 2012 13:33:21 GMT 1
definitely a scam.I got as far as the irish man passing me on to an indian gentleman? who told me it would cost 100euros to put it right.They called me 3 more times,once at 7.30am. There was a lot about it on AI-look up scams on there..Had the chap who installed my system in and he did a thorough 'clean'of my computer and laptop.Wish I'd sussed it sooner.
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Post by lib on May 14, 2012 14:06:14 GMT 1
Didn't think they were still using this scam. Goes back to at least 2010. Must be profitable and they must be not short of gullible punters.
Logmein is a perfectly respectable Company that sells and supports remote access to computer systems. They also allow a free version for non business users. I have used this for clients, along with other remote access programs, for many years.
Clever scam though as the security aspect of all these programs is that the computer 'owner' has to give permission to allow access; and the scammers are able to persuade people to let them in.
Would you give access to your home to a stranger and let them rummage about at will?
ps lots of personal detail about others are of course harvested from the files of computers scammed, so you can be contacted from data a 'friend' has on you from their contact / address book / email records.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2012 14:36:04 GMT 1
Another one.
Our daughter called to say somebody had telephoned me on her UK number, he said he needed to speak to me about the motoring accident I had in 2011, he said the accident was not my fault and they needed information from me to claim on my behalf.
My daughter asked when and where this accident occured as I did not own a car or have insurance in 2011 (at least not in the UK), apparently he got annoyed at her questions and hung up.
I am wondering how he tied my name to my daughters phone number, it can only be from me getting insurance quotes online when last in the UK.
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Post by hellfire on May 14, 2012 15:13:53 GMT 1
My elderly dad had a call from a man who said he was a Dyson engineer and they would like to come and service his cleaner.Dad has an upright and said right and a date and time was arranged. He did not sleep well that night and told my sister who instantly phoned Dyson HQ - they do not send engineers out under any instance.Dad was alarmed so he told the local bobby three doors down about it.However Dad had not been given any contact number but on the day the "engineer" had arranged to call, he rang to say he would be late.Dad told him in polite terms to FOff and that the police had been informed, needless to say he never heard another thing. My Dad is not easily sucked in but this one got him although fortunately before he was shafted of any money.
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Post by kattie on May 14, 2012 17:05:24 GMT 1
I also had the "microsoft" engineer call - in English to my French home number - I was a tad norty and played along - right to the point he was asking for bank details - at which point I said "Oh gosh, you'd better ring back and speak to my husband - he'll understand you far better as HE'S AN I T CONSULTANT" - strangely enough we got cut off.........  |
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Post by Elkay on May 14, 2012 17:32:57 GMT 1
I've got to be honest - this woman was so convincing at first that I fell for it. I was trying to do several things at once (including filling in French tax forms at the last minute - typical of us!) and I just didn't think. My first question to her was what would her advice cost me and she laughed so merrily that it made me believe her. We didn't get much further tho cos I realised that the name she called me by isn't the name the computer is registered under.
It does worry me though that she phoned my French landline and immediately spoke to me in English!
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Post by Madame Moorhen on May 15, 2012 8:26:05 GMT 1
I'm so untechy I would just have to pass it on to the Term anyway as even in English I wouldn't understand a word. ;D
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