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Answer» This is a WARNING about a phone scam to try and get into your PC. Nice link, Harry. I see they have our group photo. Thanks Geek, i'm the one on the right maybe the link will help someone.That's me on the left. Quote from: Geek-9pm on November 22, 2011, 01:38:35 PM That's me on the left. Then who do you think the other 3 are This scam has been going on the UK for a while now, at least a year. I have been getting about 3 or 4 calls a week recently. They always say "I am calling from the Microsoft Security Centre, and we have detected a malware infection on your computer." I have developed a variety of ways to waste some of their time. Usually they direct you to the Event Log (which will always have some "errors" listed, but the last guy said that to prove he was genuine, I should do Run - cmd - Assoc and look at the bottom of the list for a code starting ".zfsendtotarget" He then read this out:=CLSID\{888DCA60-FC0A-11CF-8F0F-00C04FD7D062} and said that "proved" he was genuine... I said "Oh No! What shall I do?" I was able to string him along for 15 minutes before I told him I knew it was a scam. He let loose a string of obscenities, thus awarding me my prize. They are told to say their name is something like "Jim Smith" or "Bill Jones". I say "My name is Rabindrinath Bramaputra" which never seems to FAZE them, although you'd think it should. Quote from: Salmon Trout on November 22, 2011, 02:20:05 PM This scam has been going on the UK for a while now, at least a year. I have been getting about 3 or 4 calls a week recently. They always say "I am calling from the Microsoft Security Centre, and we have detected a malware infection on your computer." I have developed a variety of ways to waste some of their time. Usually they direct you to the Event Log (which will always have some "errors" listed, but the last guy said that to prove he was genuine, I should do Run - cmd - Assoc and look at the bottom of the list for a code starting ".zfsendtotarget" I got one of these ages ago. WELL, actually I got two. The first time I just hung up, but those guys can be persistent. Or maybe somebody else had the number come up or something. Anyway, I decided to mess with them, much as you did. My goal was to get them to hang up on me without calling them out DIRECTLY. It went something like this: Them: OK, I Need you to go into Event Viewer (instructions for opening event viewer, start-Run, etc) Me: I don't have a start menu. is it like this thing here? 'Program Manager'? It has a File->Run Menu Them: Yes, try that Me: It says fdisk wasn't found Them: Did you type eventvwr? Me: No I typed fdisk. Them: I said to type E, V,E,N,T,V,W,R Me: I know but I like F,D,I,S,K better. Different strokes. Them: Well if you don't get rid of this malicious malware your computer will be slow Me: Is that bad? Them: err... Yes Me: OK, so what do I do in fdisk? Them:I need you to run eventvwr Me: Should I run it from a bash prompt? and so on. I didn't actually meet my goal of having them hang up on me. I ended up getting bored. They were persistent though. I thought surely the references to different operating systems would phase them. (At one point I also recall asking if I was supposed to run fdisk under multifinder...) Quote They are told to say their name is something like "Jim Smith" or "Bill Jones". Or Bill Richardson.... |
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