Attempted Indian phone PC hacking scam

thelawnet

Just called by a man obviously in some kind of boiler room in India.

'I am calling from the PC support centre. We have been receiving a lot of error messages from your PC'

Obvious scam, but I played along

He got me to press win+r (run), then 'inf junks'. This opens the Windows inf directory, quite normal.

'These are all the errors on your PC'

He then asked me to do win+r, then eventvwr, and said that the, again, perfectly normal, errors in Windows Event Viewer, were proof that my machine was damaged.

He then said to do win+r, and go to ammyy.com. This I did. He asked me to go to the download page, I did, and to download the software. 'No thank you', I said, and hung up.

He called back 'We are from the Microsoft support centre, we need to fix the errors on your computer' 'I'll get it checked out locally, thanks' 'They cannot do it there, we are the Microsoft certified professionals'. 'Actually I used the computer shop before, they are pretty good, goodbye'.

I could have just told him he was a fraudster, but it was more fun to play along....

bod1467

Another one?

There's been quite a few threads here about this.

tibawo

i had these guys a few times..

1. i'm either deaf and eventually they give up

2. i ask which computer as i don't have one

3. i have a pear,, no no i mean apple

thelawnet

He would have been more convincing if he didn't have such a comedy unintelligble Indian accent.

PHARR

Such a popular scam. Just to think though some poor people actually fall for this. Did you note the number and report to Microsoft?

thelawnet

No caller ID.

loracan1

or they fake the number.

spannerzone

Goog to see these daily occurances are still being reported.....hopefully make everyone aware of these tricky scamsters

real1314

I've just spent 25 mins keeping one of these morons occupied.

This on claimed to be from "Windows Support" but denied having anything to do with microsoft.

I played along for 5 mins then I spent about 5 mins telling him he was a liar, a thief, a disgrace etc etc, i asked if his mother was proud of him and told him he was a shameful disgrace to his family.

Then he plodded on, like it was water off a duck's back, so I played along again to keep him off someone else's back.

He asked me to go open up System Information and to use "Find What" to look for "viruses". My PC took a while searching and came back with nothing, which left him a bit stumped. I guess he mis-read his script!

He gave me a made up address, website and phone number, so I had a bit of fun getting the phone number wrong about 30 times before he eventually hung up. :cool:

redux

I just had one of these calls, saying my internet connection was running slowly, etc, all that stuff

I played along for a bit, pretending I was just starting the PC, she asks me what browser, what does it say in the address box. I said about:blank.

She told me to type in that website. I said what happens then, is it some kind of remote access. No, why would I do that, she said. Then she said that their engineers can run tests on my PC, so I say oh it is remote access then. No, just go on that page, we need to check your anti-virus, she said. I can do that online with companies I've heard of before, I said, like MacAfee or Norton. But those are no good, ours is better, she reckons.

Which company are you calling from, I eventually asked after a load more waffle. We work on behalf of British Telecom, TalkTalk, Virgin Media ...

Yes, but you haven't mentioned my internet provider. What's the name of your actual company?

I'm ringing you from the f_cking internet connection, she said

I see, the f_cking internet connection, just so I haven't misheard you?

Yes, she said, and hung up.

Lincoln_Imp

tibawo wrote: »

i had these guys a few times..

1. i'm either deaf and eventually they give up

2. i ask which computer as i don't have one

3. i have a pear,, no no i mean apple

Used number 2 a few times