Change every password especially banking related ones immediately? Sent from my iPad
On 30 Jul 2011, at 14:47, carole cornish <[email protected]> wrote: > What are they trying to do, a friend of mine with a pc allowed them to access > her computor and saw them accessing files etc. after about 20 minutes of > saying they were sorting it out they asked is she wanted to pay £80 for a > service contract. She did not go any farther and put the phone down realising > she had been tricked. What did they want, money or to get her inforamtion. > She does no internet banking or ebay or any buying using her computor. > What should she do now? > > > Subject: Re: [sussex_mug] Scammers on the loose > > From: [email protected] > > Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 13:51:13 +0100 > > To: [email protected] > > > > I've had these guys on the phone dozens of times, though thankfully not for > > a few weeks. Sad to say, I've played along with them for a minute or so as > > it's so funny. They haven't told me that they were from MS though, just > > that they "had been monitoring issues with my Windows PC and they could > > tell that I was having problems with crashes and viruses". > > > > Hey ho … > > > > Stephen > > > > On 30 Jul 2011, at 13:47, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote: > > > > > Hi All > > > > > > Just had the good fortune to have been at a client's house when he > > > received an interesting phone call from someone purporting to be from > > > Microsoft, asking to speak to him by name. > > > > > > He passed the phone over to me, the support technician explained, in a > > > thick Indian accent over a very bad quality VoIP line, that he was > > > calling from Microsoft and "my computer had downloaded some unwanted junk > > > and malware threats". > > > > > > I asked him to confirm exactly which threats, which he dutifully > > > explained were "very serious and unwanted". > > > > > > I then asked what type of computer I had, while staring at my client's > > > mac mini. He hung up. > > > > > > Never ever believe anyone who calls you telling you anything about your > > > equipment! > > > > > > Made my day. > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > Sam > > > > > > -- > > > MacAmbulance > > > Sam Mullen > > > 07747778022 > > > [email protected] > > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > > > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]. > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > > > > > > When asked in 1997 what he would do to fix Apple's problems, Michael Dell > > infamously told a crowd of IT executives, "What would I do? I'd shut it > > down and give the money back to the shareholders." > > > > By the way, how ARE Dell doing these days? ... > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
