[Gllug] Phone scam?

[david at gbenet.com]

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Sanatan Rai wrote:
> Hi all,
>    I have recently been receiving some calls by people who are clearly
> running a scam.
> The modus operandi is asa follows:
> 
>    * You receive a call by someone claiming to be working for a PC
> support company
>       or a company that works with `your ISP'. They say that they are
> `seeing errors
>       from your computer' and can help you sort them out.
> 
>   * They then suggest you go to a website, usually of a vendor selling
> some kind of
>      free desktop sharing software (Eg. www.ammyy.com).
> 
> So far I have either told them off straight away or strung them along
> as far as I could.
> My guess is that they attempt to either a) gain control of your PC
> once the sharing software
> is installed, or they get your credit card details by offering you a discount.
> 
> I called one of the companies they claimed to be calling from to
> confirm the guess that
> neither that company nor the software vendor have any connexion with
> the scammer.
> 
> Have any of you experienced this?
> 
> Is there a way of reporting these people?
> 
> --Sanatan
> 
You can report to New Scotland Yard Fraud Office

David

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