While I was at my parents just the other day I got this exact same phone call about an "my computer being infected" when I picked up their phone, apparently they are getting it about once a week.
Not half an hour later I answered their phone again and got a different scam call. A woman purporting to be from a delivery company had a computer with (my fathers name) for (my parents address) but it was short of delivery fee by just $10 and that it couldn't be delivered without full payment and if I'd like to please give them my credit card details so that it could be delivery, oh and it's a really expensive looking Sony Viao so it would be a shame for its delivery to be delayed just because it was short on delivery payment. My guess is that they were trying to get people to think "ohhh mistaken delivery of expensive laptop! Mine for just $10! whooot! " or for less dishonest folk maybe that it was a christmas gift from a relative/friend. After I asked them to deliver it C.O.D. and hung up my parents said that they were getting that one every couple of weeks sometimes for Apple products, sometimes for Sony products. ________________ mark.sec...@uwa.edu.au Mark Secker (Ba. Bus. IS/IP, ECU) Teaching Facilities Administrator Business School IT Services The University of Western Australia - CRICOS provider number 00126G M261 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009 Phone 6488 1855, Fax 6488 1055, On 8/12/10 9:46 AM, "Severin Crisp" <sevcr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > >Now that is a worthy response, Mark! >Severin Crisp > >On 08/12/2010, at 9:38 AM, Mark Secker wrote: > >> >> My 80+ year old parents got one of these calls a few months back, >> after >> the call ended my dad rang me to ask/tell me about it... >> Apparently they kept telling him that his computer had a virus and >> that >> they (his "ISP's upstream provider") were about to disconnect his ASDL >> connection.... But that for some fee (I think is twas about $90 or >> $190 >> ish) via phone credit card payment he could purchase some cleaning >> software that they would give him the link for and help him install. >> >> He then told him that that would be fine but he would have to get an >> internet connection first and buy a modem for his 1985 Amega 1000. >> >> Apparently they hung up on him after that >> >> ________________ >> mark.sec...@uwa.edu.au >> Mark Secker (Ba. Bus. IS/IP, ECU) >> Teaching Facilities Administrator >> Business School IT Services >> >> The University of Western Australia - CRICOS provider number 00126G >> M261 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009 >> Phone 6488 1855, Fax 6488 1055, >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On 8/12/10 9:18 AM, "wyv...@iinet.net.au" <wyv...@iinet.net.au> wrote: >> >>> >>> Thanks everyone for confirming exactly what I thought. Silly buggers >>> rang me on my phone line too, not the one i use for the net...~lol~ >>> >>> Yvonne >>> >>> >>> On 08/12/2010, at 8:15 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 07/12/2010, at 6:14 PM, wyv...@iinet.net.au wrote: >>>> >>>>> hi guys >>>>> >>>>> i have just had a strange call with caller ID showing as Overseas. >>>>> >>>>> The woman asked for me by name and said she was from some company, >>>>> I couldn't quite hear it all but it ended with PC. She stated that >>>>> they have been getting error messages from my computer and wanted >>>>> to know if they could check something, asking me if i was able to >>>>> sit at my computer now. >>>> >>>> Impossible. For this to be happening you would have to have caught >>>> a virus. You're using a Mac, so you haven't. Goodbye. Hang up. >>>> >>>>> >>>>> I told her i didn't believe what she was saying her reply was to >>>>> ask me why i did not believe her to which i asked her to describe >>>>> the messages at which point she hung up on me. >>>>> >>>>> anyone know wnything about this or experienced the same? >>>>> >>>>> Yvonne >>>> >>>> Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services >>>> FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer >>>> Perth, Western Australia >>>> Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 064 948 >>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >> > >________________________________________________________ > Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP > 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. > Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) > email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au >________________________________________________________ > > > > > >-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
