Title: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: Girgy85 on November 24, 2010, 06:16:10 PM Just had a phonecall from an Asian guy saying he worked for MS Windows. He was saying he was monitoring my computer and said it was being attacked and my hard drive was being eaten up. He told me to open explorer and enter in the address bar www.amyy.com or something like that. I did it but didn't press enter to view the webpage then confronted him saying i had norton and i didn't trust what he was saying. I then said id contact my own PC advice if i had any problems, he hung up!!
Any advice was he scamming trying to access my files etc ??? Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: TightEnd on November 24, 2010, 06:18:24 PM Known recent scam.
Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: Girgy85 on November 24, 2010, 06:19:52 PM Known recent scam. What were they trying to do? Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: TightEnd on November 24, 2010, 06:21:38 PM Known recent scam. What were they trying to do? listened to a recent case of this on R5L yesterday. They Want you to sign up to fake antivirus software that then allows them to access your passwords/online banking etc the person who fell for it had to change all his cards, online details etc Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: paulhouk03 on November 24, 2010, 06:26:21 PM i dont even pick the home phone up these days
ppl who wanna contact mewill use my mobile Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: david3103 on November 24, 2010, 06:28:40 PM I got a call claiming to follow up ' a recent error report'
Told them to jog on Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: Girgy85 on November 24, 2010, 06:30:06 PM i dont even pick the home phone up these days ppl who wanna contact mewill use my mobile Was my parents phone tbh Nice fade by me then cos that would of been a pain in the ass to sort out!! Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: turny on November 24, 2010, 06:33:31 PM still baffles me how people can still be so gullible tbh how the hell did you go as far as typing the address in the pc before telling him to fuck off?
Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: bhoywonder on November 24, 2010, 06:36:43 PM There is a scam just now whereby a postcard drops thru your letterbox informing you of a missed delivery....phone. a number to rearrange delivery....boom...insta 300 onto your phonebill.
These scams are,getting better n better.... Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: Girgy85 on November 24, 2010, 06:40:04 PM still baffles me how people can still be so gullible tbh how the hell did you go as far as typing the address in the pc before telling him to fuck off? Sorry im not quite as perfect as you. Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: George2Loose on November 24, 2010, 06:41:23 PM still baffles me how people can still be so gullible tbh how the hell did you go as far as typing the address in the pc before telling him to fuck off? Would have said the same thing before a recent betting scam on here. Now I just keep my mouth shut! Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: turny on November 24, 2010, 07:02:37 PM still baffles me how people can still be so gullible tbh how the hell did you go as far as typing the address in the pc before telling him to fuck off? Sorry im not quite as perfect as you. lol please dont be so touchy mr girgy xx Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: celtic on November 24, 2010, 07:08:15 PM Ffs girgynator. We can't be bro's from another mo if you nearly fall for this shit. I lolled at... So I typed in the address bar. Come on.
Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: turny on November 24, 2010, 07:15:26 PM Ffs girgynator. We can't be bro's from another mo if you nearly fall for this shit. I lolled at... So I typed in the address bar. Come on. Sorry he's not quite as perfect as you either ;D. Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: Girgy85 on November 24, 2010, 07:42:27 PM FFS guys I'm stupid but not that stupid! I was just keeping him hanging on da fone till I could pounce on him with a verbal attack!!
Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: byronkincaid on November 24, 2010, 07:43:03 PM There is a scam just now whereby a postcard drops thru your letterbox informing you of a missed delivery....phone. a number to rearrange delivery....boom...insta 300 onto your phonebill. These scams are,getting better n better.... 300p maybe http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/pds.asp Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: paulhouk03 on November 24, 2010, 07:45:13 PM FFS guys I'm stupid but not that stupid! I was just keeping him hanging on da fone till I could pounce on him with a verbal attack!! shoulda kept stalling him then say oh a pop up came up saying gfy u fuking cock munching twat Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: bhoywonder on November 24, 2010, 08:11:25 PM There is a scam just now whereby a postcard drops thru your letterbox informing you of a missed delivery....phone. a number to rearrange delivery....boom...insta 300 onto your phonebill. These scams are,getting better n better.... 300p maybe http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/pds.asp That's the one...got a work email detailing this Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: gatso on November 24, 2010, 08:35:26 PM The bit that made me lol was that you had to open an explorer window. Why would anyone do that to their computer?
Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: Girgy85 on November 24, 2010, 09:13:02 PM The bit that made me lol was that you had to open an explorer window. Why would anyone do that to their computer? Tbf to myself I did ask if I could open firefox instead! Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: gatso on November 24, 2010, 09:25:49 PM Lol. What did he say to that?
Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: Girgy85 on November 24, 2010, 09:37:54 PM Lol. What did he say to that? Lol he just said open google left click in the address bar and type in this address... Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: sovietsong on November 24, 2010, 10:20:28 PM Glad you put the thread up girdy, my missus is a bit of a liability and she can't ignore a ringing phone so you might just have saved me £15.27.
Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: Cf on November 25, 2010, 02:31:13 PM FFS guys I'm stupid but not that stupid! I was just keeping him hanging on da fone till I could pounce on him with a verbal attack!! I did that once. I was bored and got a phone call from someone trying to sell me a mobile phone. It took him about 30 minutes until he realised I had absolutely no intention of purchasing what he was trying to sell me. He was not amused :D Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: Foggy on November 25, 2010, 03:44:49 PM Glad you put the thread up girdy, my missus is a bit of a liability and she can't ignore a ringing phone so you might just have saved me £15.27. Why will it have save you £15.27 dont follw that? Just had a call, picked up said "Hello" phone went dead!!! Seems to happen frequently, surely they cannot bill you for even answering the bloody thing? Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: keilan303 on November 25, 2010, 03:46:01 PM My mum got this call aswell, she was a bit quick and told them WTF are you on about Windows team, we have a Mac (which she doesn't) Guys hung up pretty quick...
A few months back a broadband user list was leaked on the net (including full personal contact details, so every monkey with a PC can get a list of broadband users in the UK to harrass) think it was just Sky broadband users....can probably expect more bs like this....useless fkrs that run these services... Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: rex008 on November 25, 2010, 04:47:38 PM My mum got this call aswell, she was a bit quick and told them WTF are you on about Windows team, we have a Mac (which she doesn't) Guys hung up pretty quick... A few months back a broadband user list was leaked on the net (including full personal contact details, so every monkey with a PC can get a list of broadband users in the UK to harrass) think it was just Sky broadband users....can probably expect more bs like this....useless fkrs that run these services... This was only a list of people that some law company was suing for torrenting copyright stuff. Mostly gay porn I believe. They may have got Girgy's details off that? Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: pleno1 on November 25, 2010, 05:18:44 PM My mum got this call aswell, she was a bit quick and told them WTF are you on about Windows team, we have a Mac (which she doesn't) Guys hung up pretty quick... A few months back a broadband user list was leaked on the net (including full personal contact details, so every monkey with a PC can get a list of broadband users in the UK to harrass) think it was just Sky broadband users....can probably expect more bs like this....useless fkrs that run these services... This was only a list of people that some law company was suing for torrenting copyright stuff. Mostly gay porn I believe. They may have got Girgy's details off that? and Kelian's mum Title: Re: Weird Phonecall just received. Post by: keilan303 on November 25, 2010, 05:47:57 PM Her net connection is four times faster than mine so I use it a lot....probably everything but gay porn tbh....
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