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zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 66287 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
I didn't know where to put this at, but over the last few days, I was getting a phone call from 760-589-2020, I'd say hello, and no one answered, after the 1st call this number kept on calling Me back, so I got an app for My phone to block or hang up on the guy, the app is called"Call Blocker", it's free, so I did a search after I put this app on My phone, and found out the caller was supposedly from Death Valley, which is unlikely as almost nobody lives there, in any case I blocked the number and after a few days of that, and the calls stopped. I'd love to post more about this, but I can't, the caller never said or did anything, besides call Me, that is, no sales pitch or anything, just dead air, quite weird really. Savoir-Faire is everywhere! The T1 Trust, T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, America's First HST |
JumpinJohnny Send message Joined: 27 Mar 13 Posts: 678 Credit: 962,093 RAC: 0 |
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James C. Send message Joined: 19 Jul 06 Posts: 642 Credit: 18,352,758 RAC: 11 |
I often get these calls on my Grandmother's land line. I enjoy the Monday approach a lot as well, although I am typically not as aggressive. I like to tell them that I am on crutches and it will take me a minute to get to the computer, and just place the phone face down somewhere near the TV so its really loud when they are waiting. Of course I have walked through with them up until the point where I am installing Team Viewer then immediately have to use the rest room and we hook back to the phone being face down near the TV. It's quite an interesting scam, and it's sad that they have likely compromised a lot of people's computers. -"Young" James "To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like." -Steven Hawking |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
My GF just got a call from "Windows technical department" as they usually say to us here. Yes. Not Microsoft. Microsoft does not make unsolicited phone calls to help you fix your computer. I wonder what company Windows is:) Still after all these years they trying to scam. And they speak English with a very heavy Indian accent. Subtitles please:) |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22504 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
"Do you know who you are calling"? "Errr..." "GCHQ" Click Brrrrrrrrr Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51477 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
I never had one..... But I am prepared. OH, thank you for finally calling............. I have been trying to get through for days now................ This virus seems to have been trying to get to your servers for days now, can you help me get through? I just need your password and I can get through your firewall. All I need to help you is It is............................click...............buz........................................... "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19365 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Just read that people are getting scam emails supposedly from ‘service@amazon.co.uk’, Amazon email scam could cost up to £750 - here's what you should look out for |
Kevin Olley Send message Joined: 3 Aug 99 Posts: 906 Credit: 261,085,289 RAC: 572 |
Just read that people are getting scam emails supposedly from ‘service@amazon.co.uk’, I got several that seem very similar from 'service @paypal.co.uk', Oct-Nov last year. The only button that I pressed was 'print'. I have not used paypal for at least 5 years and my card details have changed since then, but to be on the safe side I visited my bank. The bank said that they had had customers with problems with this particular e-mail, but only those that had 'clicked the link', but to be on the safe side they offered and I accepted a text messaging service that notifies me whenever a withdrawl over a certain amount is made from my current account. I must admit that my bank is fairly good, I have never had problems with money going out wrongly, but have on a couple of occasions had purchases delayed when the amount was higher than usual and 'outside my normal usage'. Kevin |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
I got an email the other day that purported to be from a law firm, claiming they had just received a parking ticket in my name and I should pay it right away. The bank that runs the credit card I use for pretty much everything has a text message fraud system that's easy to respond to, if I pay attention to it. It also occasionally has funny triggers. Sunday was the end of my cycle and I paid it off by Friday. The last use was Thursday, here in town. Tuesday morning, I tried to use it in the Coke machine at work (run by a company about 10 miles away) and they thought that was fraud. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3332 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
... I tried to use it in the Coke machine at work (run by a company about 10 miles away) and they thought that was fraud. Had similar thing happen to be some years back... Used my cc at a Red Box (DVD vending machine) less than 1 mile from house where I attempted to rent 2 DVD's and it was flagged as fraud. Odd thing was I had been using that exact cc at that same box for 3+ years with no problems. |
Carlos Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 30565 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157 |
Oh my goodness, it finally happened. I just got the Windows Service Department call. I was able to keep him talking for about 35 minuets before he hung up on me. Wish I had a recorder in my office. I was having fun. |
Blurf Send message Joined: 2 Sep 06 Posts: 8964 Credit: 12,678,685 RAC: 0 |
I got it this morning too. I had a wireless keyboard in my bedroom closet so I grabbed it and strung him along for about 20 minutes. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30980 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
New Twist. Left a message, my windows license is to be terminated, call a fraud number. As I write this on my Mac. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24909 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Just been checking my e-mail. Got this on Sat :-) |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11413 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
I got one today,I asked him which one was causing the problem. He asked me how many computers I had. I told him three which he had a hard time accepting. He told me to turn one on. I told him all 3 were on. He told me to go to any one of them and he would show me what was wrong. I told him they were busy doing astronomy and I would not interrupt the science experiment and he hung up. So sad, I was having fun. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30980 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
<computer voice> "Your Windows license key has been expired, to further information call Un-7 1-312-BIG-SCAM if you do not call your windows will be terminated over." </computer voice> |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30980 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
A new variation <female computer voice> 844-BIG-SCAM to renew your microsoft services. its 844-BIG-SCAM. </female computer voice> |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51477 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
I got one today,I asked him which one was causing the problem. He asked me how many computers I had. I told him three which he had a hard time accepting. He told me to turn one on. I told him all 3 were on. He told me to go to any one of them and he would show me what was wrong. I told him they were busy doing astronomy and I would not interrupt the science experiment and he hung up. So sad, I was having fun. LOL....then he would really have a hard time believing that I have 8 of them running. Bring it on, scammers, bring it on. Meow! "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." |
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