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Personautopilot
01/9/2013 at 10:40pm
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Quote: Originally posted by GCMS2012 on 01/9/2013
Do what someone's done on the radio, (radio 2 last week)...

Have a premium number phone line installed to your house..

Not sure how it exactly how it works, but the guy's made a bit of money out of it so far.....


Read about this guy in the paper. An absolutely genius of an idea, I can't believe myself or anyone else had done this (maybe they did).

What he did was rent his own premium rate number (£10 a year) which directs to his usual phone. He gets 70% of the money (£1 a min or something). Then he went on to websites, such as PPI firms and registers the number. They call him and he pockets the money - hundreds of pounds I believe. He is not doing anything wrong, it's exactly what many companies (and government departments) do. If your smart and get the number registered on dodgy websites eventually you get lots of cold callers.


Personficklejade
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autopilot, read about this, too, but can't do that because of my Mum's telecare service. I want to murder these firms, the distress these cold calls make.

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My husband was nearly scammed earlier this year for 20k shares!
What is unbelievably frightening is we are young, intelligent, internet users

We are in our 40,s and have both used the internet for work for many years. It was extremely scary that a fake takeover bid nearly persuaded my husband to sell a lot in shares. They were very professional with fake websites and addresses. I only got worried when a holding fee was to be paid to a Hong Kong bank account.

I suppose Im only posting this to say beware and warn just quite how sophisticted the scams are.


Personrollsroyce
10/9/2013 at 10:36am
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what does the "windows" one do please, as i went over to my mates about 2 weeks ago and he was saying this guy rang him up about speeding up his computer, (i think he had control of his computer) my mate seems pleased about it, so what is the catch, so i can tell him, (oh he is a "know-all") ha ha.


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Quote: Originally posted by rollsroyce on 10/9/2013
what does the "windows" one do please, as i went over to my mates about 2 weeks ago and he was saying this guy rang him up about speeding up his computer, (i think he had control of his computer) my mate seems pleased about it, so what is the catch, so i can tell him, (oh he is a "know-all") ha ha.


Basically they phone saying they are from 'windows' and have detected problems on your computer. They then get you to open a command prompt which opens up the system hardware settings in control panel. If there are any (and there usually are) yellow exclamation marks, they say this evidence of virus etc.
Then they either get you to go to a website and sign up for a maintenance contract or get you to log in to a site that allows remote log in allowinng them to take control and install keyloggers etc.
Your mate could have been compromised.


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Personautopilot
10/9/2013 at 11:46am
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Quote: Originally posted by rollsroyce on 10/9/2013what does the "windows" one do please, as i went over to my mates about 2 weeks ago and he was saying this guy rang him up about speeding up his computer, (i think he had control of his computer) my mate seems pleased about it, so what is the catch, so i can tell him, (oh he is a "know-all") ha ha.


Oh dear me, as already said, he will now have key logging software on his PC - 100% for certain, that's what this scam is all about. They have full remote access to his PC, to secretly install malware and view his photos, documents and gain all his passwords. He needs to take action now and run a full virus and spyware scan. What a fool.


Personarmchaircamper
10/9/2013 at 6:14pm
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Well, I got an email today from a friend's email account and signed with her name, saying she had been robbed at gunpoint in another country and asking for money. Pretty obviously a scam but they were asking me to reply to the email. That's the bit which seems odd as they must have access to her email account because a reply would go to that address. There wasn't a link to click on or anything. So how does that work? Wouldn't she see the incoming replies?


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Personrollsroyce
10/9/2013 at 7:32pm
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thanks for the "windows" answers i have just rang him up,but he still thinks he knows better, didn't know why i bothered realy,but thanks all the same


Personautopilot
11/9/2013 at 10:56am
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Quote: Originally posted by armchaircamper on 10/9/2013Well, I got an email today from a friend's email account and signed with her name, saying she had been robbed at gunpoint in another country and asking for money. Pretty obviously a scam but they were asking me to reply to the email. That's the bit which seems odd as they must have access to her email account because a reply would go to that address. There wasn't a link to click on or anything. So how does that work? Wouldn't she see the incoming replies?



Classic. We have had hundreds like this.

Email addresses are easy to spoof, you just insert a fake header. Basically that just means making it look like another person sent it.


Personmadasaman
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just had one from paypal suspending my account till I insert my details to unlock it. WHAT am I going to do without my account? Sent it on to Paypal, and deleted it.


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Personarmchaircamper
11/9/2013 at 4:59pm
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Quote: Originally posted by autopilot on 11/9/2013
Quote: Originally posted by armchaircamper on 10/9/2013Well, I got an email today from a friend's email account and signed with her name, saying she had been robbed at gunpoint in another country and asking for money. Pretty obviously a scam but they were asking me to reply to the email. That's the bit which seems odd as they must have access to her email account because a reply would go to that address. There wasn't a link to click on or anything. So how does that work? Wouldn't she see the incoming replies?

Classic. We have had hundreds like this.

Email addresses are easy to spoof, you just insert a fake header. Basically that just means making it look like another person sent it.


Do you mean it's not actually coming from her account but just made to look as if it is? If I had hit 'Reply' it would have gone to them, whereas if I had sent a new email to her address she would have got it - correct?

She has changed her password and contacted her email provider, but perhaps that won't make any difference.

Apart from the ridiculous content, is there any other way of knowing that it doesn't come from her? It's actually quite worrying because they could ask for other more innocent-looking personal information and I might assume I was emailing my friend.

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With those 'Help, I've been mugged in the Philippines and need assistance'-type emails it's usually from someone you know well enough to realise they wouldn't be there anyway without telling you they were going, and the wording can be a bit off, too; grammar not quite right etc. Golden rule is don't reply' - you can always phone or email them to check.

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