I am getting clients ring me every day about this problem. Today I had a laptop brought in to check whether they had put anything bad on his machine. And when I got home this evening I got a call from a client asking me whether this was a scam. Fortunately these two were not caught. But, a few weeks ago I had a really naïve gentleman who finally decided to ask for help after spending over £800 with them. They told him that they would check his computer every few week and only charge if they found something wrong. On the last occasion they told him that they had removed AVG antivirus as it was not compatible with windows 7 and installed the best antivirus in the world "Google Chrome" He asked about 100 people in his works canteen and none could tell him whether this was true, most had not heard of it. The only thing I can find in common with these clients is that they had all used BT help desk sometime in the previous week. (BT is our largest phone company and uses an Indian call centre."
I like Johns suggestion and will be telling my clients about this in future. Cheers Peter Peter Hart Computers -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Weller Sent: 26 July 2011 18:26 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NF] SPAM down 82% from last year I suspect that we in UK are so used to having calls from Indian call centres that we are less likely to think them odd. John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 > I've not heard of anyone in the States here having this happen, but > perhaps it has. Surely there's several unsuspecting, easily-duped > folks in every nation who just figure that those good, hard-working > Indian computer folks are legitimate. I don't know if anyone else is > surprised, but I kind of am. In my travels, I've heard that folks > totally distrust the Russians, but I've never heard something like > this of the Indians. > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
