owre-weel Posted October 7, 2010 Report Share Posted October 7, 2010 I had a phone call yesterday from an exceptionaly poor english speaker, who tried to tell me that they needed to access my computer to check it for maintenance issues. When I started asking questions, they just hung up. Today my elderly aunt had the same call, she could not understand them and when she just said I dont work with a computer, they said that she had a laptop. Noo she does, but its never been out of the box since it was bought 2 years ago. When she started to ask questions, they again just hung up. I am assumming this is some sort of scam, so be carefull !!! The number that came up on my phone was 018774273368 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sludgegulper Posted October 7, 2010 Report Share Posted October 7, 2010 Yep, it's a scam. Just enter the number into google & it fetches up a whole list of complaints. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upnorth76 Posted October 7, 2010 Report Share Posted October 7, 2010 yep, i had the same phone call 2 weeks ago. Some guy telling me that "windows based pc" sent an error report to them and he had to have access to my pc.. I told him that i use an apple mac he went very quiet very quickly then hung up the phone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Para Handy Posted October 7, 2010 Report Share Posted October 7, 2010 Also watch out for the tax refund e-mail again, had 2 in the past 2 daysAll these scams are a pain in the proverbial human exhaust tube Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noodeyn Posted October 7, 2010 Report Share Posted October 7, 2010 Be very careful, these guys have managed to scam hundreds of people. They tell you that ur pc or laptop has various viruses and they can fix it over the phone for only £25 they remotely access ur computer by getting you to type in ur password then they tell you it's worse than they thought and it may cost in the region for £100 to fix. All the while they ask for your card details for payment, clear out your account and rape your computer for any other passwords saved etc and the fraud spirals from there. They have then totally knackered your computer and it has to be paid for to get fixed by a specialist. Beware they are very fast talkers, both sets of parents fell for it DOH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owre-weel Posted October 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2010 Yep, it's a scam. Just enter the number into google & it fetches up a whole list of complaints. Thanks for that tip, I didnt know you could just enter a number in google and search!! Min you learn something every day on dis computers! It's a pity that there are so many, who use it for the wrong purpose and try to scam folk. One post on the "who called me" site, stated that they had sent over 400 viruses to his computer and he was now getting more in an attempt to get him to buy there anti-virus software ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest posiedon Posted October 8, 2010 Report Share Posted October 8, 2010 I got the call a couple of weeks ago, the (Asian?) guys accent was so thick I could barely understand him so I just hung up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jps Posted October 8, 2010 Report Share Posted October 8, 2010 I get these calls every few weeks.I just tell them I dont have a computer or laptop they soon hang up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitzy Posted October 8, 2010 Report Share Posted October 8, 2010 Yes I have had the same, a couple of times - one Asian lady was very insistent - I told her that I had a very good IT friend who would advise me. Next time I got a call from an Asian gentleman same very thick accent and I said I didnt have a PC, so he hung up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArabiaTerra Posted October 12, 2010 Report Share Posted October 12, 2010 My old folks got the same call. Except the caller actually claimed to be from Microsoft. Luckily I was at the house at the time, it's just the sort of thing Dad would fall for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted October 12, 2010 Report Share Posted October 12, 2010 My old folks got the same call. Except the caller actually claimed to be from Microsoft. Luckily I was at the house at the time, it's just the sort of thing Dad would fall for. Got pretty much the same call yesterday (Monday). Had some fun for 10 minutes, or so, before the guy hung up on me. No problem, I didn't end my side of the call for about 30 minutes.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairislefaerie Posted October 12, 2010 Report Share Posted October 12, 2010 Had a call from them last night, asian accent claiming to be called Mark, straight away had me on guard, soon as the spiel started I did what I always do with these phone calls, lay the handset down on the sideboard and leave it for an hour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarotangel Posted October 14, 2010 Report Share Posted October 14, 2010 JPS - My Mam told them that she doesn't have a laptop or computer (she has neither, Dad does all of that) and the cheeky so and so questioned her about it and then asked her if she had a telly? I got that and told them I was an IT Analyst, which really stumped them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momo Posted October 14, 2010 Report Share Posted October 14, 2010 There is no getting away from these people anymore and they probably got your phone numbers from a company you trust. We were getting hounded by sales calls when we first moved to our new address here. We eventually registered not to receive sales calls etc with BT....a service they don’t exactly go out of their way to tell you about that we heard about from a friend. Although the number of calls dropped from half a dozen every day we still get a few every week. BT sells your number to anyone who wants a list of numbers to call unless you register not to have your number passed on. It was blatantly obvious it was them who passed on my details to the sales people because they miss spelled my surname badly when they set up my account and all the sales people & crank callers phoned up asking for this miss spelled name. We ended up buying an answer machine and screening all our calls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jps Posted October 14, 2010 Report Share Posted October 14, 2010 Got another of the calls yesterday.So just put the phone next to my computer speaker and let them listen to some pink floyd full blast lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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