Ian Thomas wrote:
I’ve had several calls like this in the last couple of years (and my
wife had one just yesterday), but this overseas call from an
(Indian-accepted) “Computer Maintenance Department” was spun out to 7
minutes by one of the SMBIT guys who received it today. It lightened
my mood considerably
Put all your computers in your …
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht51A_AbHOY&feature=youtu.be>
Received a call today from "Computer Maintenance Department" trying to
tell me my computer was faulty and I needed to give them access to
"fix it" it for me. Decided to have a bit of fun. The ending was
unexpected and hilarious.
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Ian Thomas
Victoria Park, Western Australia
LOL.
Some people hang up on them when they make the call, I'd recommend
everyone playing a game of "how long can I keep you on the phone." If
everyone who wised on to them tied up their time, it would work somewhat
like a scammer-DDOS.
Something else worth doing: if you are being phished via email, check
that the URL has no identifying details (so they know it came from your
email address) and fill out the form with fake info. If everyone filled
out BS in those forms, it would once again eat up the time of these
people, and perhaps help the banks see suspect logins when there are
several failures on non-existent accounts from a certain IP address/range.
http://www.419eater.com/ is a website where the scammer gets scammed.
Somewhat amusing if you have the time to take a look.
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Les Hughes
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