In addition to the enticing emails (aka Somali emails), there have been many a call from Indian call centres (you can tell by their accent), as Gabe recently told us, telling you that they are from Microsoft, and that a very bad virus has been detected on the callee's computer. This used to happen some time early last year and was reported from a wide spectrum of people in Australia, in the papers. Don't fall for this ruse, if you do get called. One of my cousins fell for this as she was distracted and eagerly awaiting a call from her son in Dubai (which had troubles in neighbouring states at the time), and nearly fell into the trap when the guy calling asked her for her credit card details, when she wised up that she was being scammed. In the meanwhile, the guy had acquired full access to her computer via logmein (the guy told her to type this that and the other on her computer to demonstrate a pseudo-virus, and then walked her through the logmein process), but obviously could not locate anything of monetary interest recorded on the hard-drive. I had to travel an hour's drive by car on the freeway (motorway for the Brits) to get to their place and reformat the hard drive + reload all system s/ware as all access to MyComputer and Windows Explorer was denied. I had to use the command prompt screen to get their data and emails onto an USB drive before performing the reformat/reload. To be on the safe side, I also disconnected the computer physically from the ADSL modem. My wife and I were called a few times by callers purporting to be from Microsoft. Since they called us, we took them on a merry time-wasting exercise, feigning ignorance, before hanging up. This scam has, for now in Australia at least, fortunately stopped. Gabriel. ________________________________
From: Nelson Lopes <nellope...@gmail.com> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@lists.goanet.org> Sent: Sunday, 28 October 2012 12:40 AM Subject: [Goanet] enticing emails >Enticing emails >Many a gullible receiver of fraudulent emails is tempted by curiosity and >greed.
