WARNING for ALL Home Computer Users!!!

[RacerX]

I thought I would post this up because it's getting to be rampant really quickly. We've seen this 6 times now with our customers within the WEEK!

If someone cold calls you and says they are Microsoft or any company for that matter and claims you have computer problems and they will fix it, it's a SCAM!! Microsoft will NOT contact you. These people are actually talking people into allowing software into your computer and then remotely taking control and leading you to a site that ends up asking for credit card info, etc. People ARE falling for it!!!

This scam hit Australia in 2010, the UK in 2011 and it's here.

http://www.microsoft.com/australia/presspass/post/Microsoft-issues-warning-on-phone-scam

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/microsoft-callers-scam.shtml

[BODYMAN]

Always amazes me how people fall for stuff like this.

[guspech750]

Screw the warnings. You can't change stupid. So let the stupids get taken advantage of. Maybe they will get so mad, they will jump from a bridge. Thus ending stupid.

Just say'n.


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[Rockettman]

Screw the warnings. You can't change stupid. So let the stupids get taken advantage of. Maybe they will get so mad, they will jump from a bridge. Thus ending stupid.

Just say'n.


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:lol: Awesome!

[MOTOWN]

Theres one born every minute!

[kernie]

I have had those calls several times over the last few months. Always the same Indian accent with a hundred other voices pitching in the background. My elderly mother recently joined the online world. I have repeatedly warned her about scams but despite her being a vibrant intelegent senior i could see her falling prey to these vermin.

If you know someone who you think could fall prey, give em the heads up.

:beer:

[Ms. Denmark]

I have had those calls several times over the last few months. Always the same Indian accent with a hundred other voices pitching in the background. My elderly mother recently joined the online world. I have repeatedly warned her about scams but despite her being a vibrant intelegent senior i could see her falling prey to these vermin.

If you know someone who you think could fall prey, give em the heads up.

:beer: Sounds like my Mom. (Except she wouldn't agree to the "elderly" reference.) She is vibrant and intelligent but a bit too naive. She bought an Apple, but I think her granddaughters use it more than she does. ;) Anyway, good advice!

[marauder410]

well if you use a APPLE you SHOULD know that apples DO NOT get viruses and if some1 calls and says that you got a virus you can tell them to kiss my A*Z :lol:

[Marauderjack]

well if you use a APPLE you SHOULD know that apples DO NOT get viruses and if some1 calls and says that you got a virus you can tell them to kiss my A*Z :lol:


Just give it time and you "Apple guys" will be numerous enough.......ZAPPO!!:eek:

[burt ragio]

Thanks for the heads up. I will pass this to a few who are not to savy in the tech dept.

[wannaMM]

i'VE TRIED NUMEROUS TIMES TO "SLIP" OVER TO THE DARK SIDE.....(Oops-sorry about the caps-was drawing/detailing)...Apple builds one Hell of a good machine, but I can't justify what a pain it would be for me to try & re-learn all the querks that Auto-Cad (written for OS 10) would provide...All my nesting (production) programs would have to be massaged to play nicely also, so , for now, I'm just going to continue to put up with MICROSUCKS.....:)

[MrBluGruv]

Apples aren't immune to viruses, it's just that their home computer market share as well as their large business market are so infinitesimal that no one bothers to code viruses for them as it's not worth the effort compared to a Windows PC.

Computer viruses aren't inherently evil things, they are just pieces of code, in the same way that your email program, your internet browser, your microsoft office products, and so on are just code. It just so happens that the way those bits of code affect our lives in the real world are negative.

[MrBluGruv]

Also, a lot of people that have time to kill when they've gotten these spam calls have taken to screwing with them right back:

Rvn6mCzRRpU

[RacerX]

well if you use a APPLE you SHOULD know that apples DO NOT get viruses and if some1 calls and says that you got a virus you can tell them to kiss my A*Z :lol:
I clean viruses off of Apples here in the store. An Apple IS a PC and the only reason you don't hear about viruses much is because of the very small marketshare they've had for many years. I do Apple hardware repair and data recovery, etc. also. It's a PC...

P.S. I use/repair both equally. :D

[Mr. Man]

Computers are inherently evil machines that suck the life out of you. I remember a day not so long ago that the only evil machine in the house was the TV.

Back then if someone asked me question and I didn't know the answer I would say 'who the F knows' and return to the TV and my beer. Now I get up and Google it and then get sucked into YouTube for an hour.

Note to self: Keep beer closer to computer so it doesn't get warm while I'm being sucked into YouTube videos of people doing stupid things.

[JoeBoomz]

Also, a lot of people that have time to kill when they've gotten these spam calls have taken to screwing with them right back:

Rvn6mCzRRpU

That's a great video. The fun starts at 27:10 :D

[boatmangc]

Screw the warnings. You can't change stupid. So let the stupids get taken advantage of. Maybe they will get so mad, they will jump from a bridge. Thus ending stupid.

Just say'n.


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Yeah but then you would be left with more scammers....with money

[Ozark Marauder]

Computers are inherently evil machines that suck the life out of you. I remember a day not so long ago that the only evil machine in the house was the TV.

Back then if someone asked me question and I didn't know the answer I would say 'who the F knows' and return to the TV and my beer. Now I get up and Google it and then get sucked into YouTube for an hour.

Note to self: Keep beer closer to computer so it doesn't get warm while I'm being sucked into YouTube videos of people doing stupid things.

I can relate....:lol:

OZ

[Serge]

I had a few clients fall for that scam. One lost a few grand. I even gotten a couple of calls from them at home. It's fun to mess with them and let them spend all their money on long distance calls.

Pretend to be really stupid and start asking them retarded questions like where is the "any" key. Or tell them to hold cause you got something on the stove. Then put some lame song on in the background and leave them on hold for like 15 minutes.

The way these idiots operate is they connect to your PC then go into event viewer and show you all the errors that occurred. Every single PC will have at least one error. I got a PC sitting in the basement which I use mostly for testing which gets wiped out frequently. I put a redirector virus on there when the guy called me. He was trying to go one of his sites and it kept redirecting him to porn sites. Eventually he gave up and told me to take my PC to get it fixed.

[babbage]

Have you guys heard of the goodtimes virus?


Goodtimes will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it will scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream goes melty. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, screw up the tracking on your television and use subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you try to play. It will give your ex-girlfriend your new phone number. It will mix Kool-aid into your fishtank. It will drink all your beer and leave its socks out on the coffee table when there's company coming over. It will put a dead kitten in the back pocket of your good suit pants and hide your car keys when you are late for work. Goodtimes will make you fall in love with a penguin. It will give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will pour sugar in your gas tank and shave off both your eyebrows while dating your girlfriend behind your back and billing the dinner and hotel room to your Discover card. It will seduce your grandmother. It does not matter if she is dead, such is the power of Goodtimes, it reaches out beyond the grave to sully those things we hold most dear. It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you can't find it. It will kick your dog. It will leave libidinous messages on your boss's voice mail in your voice! It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve. Goodtimes will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the toilet seat up. It will make a batch of Methanphedime in your bathtub and then leave bacon cooking on the stove while it goes out to chase gradeschoolers with your new snowblower.

Be ware!

[jerrym3]

Screw the warnings. You can't change stupid. So let the stupids get taken advantage of. Maybe they will get so mad, they will jump from a bridge. Thus ending stupid.

Just say'n.


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Don't know if I'd call people that get sucked in by dirtbags "stupid", but if you say so....................

Older folks tend to believe that most people are basically honest.

But, you were just kidding around anyway, right? You really don't want people jumping off bridges because they got "scammed", do you?