Just got the "Your computer has a virus" phone call last night.

[mxz600]

These guys are ruthless and relentless. Please do not fall for this crap.

They will start out by telling you they work for "Microsoft" or companies like "IT Solutions". You have just downloaded a virus on your Windows computer. We need access to your computer so we can see what's going on.

They will direct you to a wedsite to download a program that will allow them to view the contents of your computer. BIG red flag, this is where I hung up.

The guy was persistent and sounded convincing. When I said I owned a mac, which I don't, he said "you are lying to me, why are you lying to me". He also said he had my computer ID number. If he did or not, I don't know.

 

[bruiser]

Had this call awhile back. I just hang up.

 

[Bob Denman]

I give them the old-fashioned, tried and true" :gaah::cus::cus::banghead::cus::cus::cus::cus::cus: :lecturef_smilie::cus::cus::gaah::cus::cus:"
That usually discourages them...

 

[Chupaca]

Try this..!!

let me have your home phone so I can call you back..!! Or if you have my IP and know what I downloaded then you can fix it for me..click..!!:roflblack: But they work hard at it. Makes you wonder how much good they could get done if they worked in the legal world...:dontknow:

 

[revjvegas]

hackers are scum

Also watch out for bogus emails.


This one started going around Texas and we don't even have anything called EZpass.

Click on that link in that email and your PC is instantly infected and your personal data at risk.

 

[Bob Denman]

Works EVERY time...

 

[lwrydr]

computers

I like to talk to them....ask questions like, what is wrong, where are you, how do you fix it, and assorted other stuff. It helps that I worked over 44 years in the computer industry. They usually end up hanging up on me. :doorag:

 

[Bob Denman]

Tell them...
"Hang on a moment; I'm about to fix it right now..."

 

[billybovine]

I was getting those type of calls fairly regular last winter. Got none lately.
I did get an email from a fellow recently who said he was a friend of the late Saddam Hussein. He knew of at least a million dollars that was hidden and needed me to arrange to get it. You know I need the possibility of making a couple million before it's worth getting out of bed in the morning. So I did not reply. :roflblack:

 

[peterparker]

I don't hang up

Had this call awhile back. I just hang up.

I got one last night. Sounded like the guy had an Indian accent.

Are you near your windows computer? No, it is downstairs. Is it a windows computer? Yes, it is. Could you go turn it on? No, it is downstairs. Are there other computers in your house? Yes, my wife's. Are you near it? Yes. Is it on the same system as yours? Yes, we use Comcast. Tell me what you see on the screen of your wife's computer. It is black. The screen is black? Yes. Is her computer off? I guess so. Would you turn it on for me? I do not have her password. Would you go downstairs and turn on your computer? No, I have 2 broken legs and cannot walk. Does anyone else use your computer? Yes, my wife uses it sometimes. Could your wife turn on your computer to help us? She is not here. Where is your wife? She is at work. Oh, Lord!!!....When will she be home? I don't know. When would be a good time to call back to speak to her?

And this is when I explained to him that I have just wasted as much of his time that he was planning on wasting of mine and for him to never call my number again.:roflblack:

 

[Bob Denman]

 

[PrairieSpyder]

They must target different regions in a cycle. I have gotten those calls several days in a row, then nothing for several months. They're always on my dad's land-line, and he doesn't own ANY computer.

 

[Dan McNally]

I get them, regularly. Sometimes I play with them: "Thank God you called! I've been having trouble all day trying to make the bank deposits to pay my employees . . . I have almost three hundred thousand dollars that needs to be transferred and the system is acting up. That must be what you called about?" Other times I tell them what I think of thieves. Once, I had one of them screaming at me and cursing me. I had told him that I know that Micrtosoft has no service department monitoring my PCs and that while he is busy trying to steal my money, I hope some :cus: just like him is on the phone with his mother, stealing all her money! He went nuts! I laughed! :roflblack:

 

[ARtraveler]

Wow! Never had a call about stuff like this, but have had the usual e-mail warnings and notices.

I have always tried to jack around the ones offering me a million plus dollars. They have never showed up for the meeting I requested in Nome Alaska that I know of. :roflblack::roflblack:

If I were to get a phone call, I usually let them go through their speech, don't reply to them, and when they realize that I am giving them "dead air," they usually hang up. My usual procedure for sales solicitations and political surveys.

 

[bruiser]

That e mail about EZ Pass was a subject on our local news a few weeks back.

Most times we just hang up. That is if we even answer. I got a call this morning. A male voice says "Hi how are you today" "That's good".This is - - with - - security services. We'll be in your area today and we are giving away 20 free GE home security systems". Then you realize it's a recorded sales pitch.

Sometimes I'll answer "FBI Field Agent - what can I do for you?" or Sheriffs Department, Deputy -

 

[coz]

which phone?

cell or home? we ditched the landline. get nothing on the cell.:thumbup:

 

[bruiser]

Here's another response I thought of, "NSA we know who you are, how can we help you".

 

[YIRYDE]

I don't answer my phone when I don't recognize the number or name and it goes to voice mail. If it's a legitimate call I will return the call, most telemarketers don't leave messages.

 

[mxz600]

cell or home? we ditched the landline. get nothing on the cell.:thumbup:

It was the home phone coz. I will be getting rid of it within the next couple of months.

 

[tobor9]

I get them every so often and I do have Mac's ,so I just tell them to F**k off and hang up,they don't call much anymore but I do get Emails I know are BS and only show up on my phone,not email on my other computers(all share same mail accounts) don't understand that but ignore them.