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I got a call this afternoon from "Vertex" at 310-599-9211. The voice sounded curiously from India or Pakastan, and I was expecting to hear, 'My name Peggy'.
The greatest virus is one where you actually get the computer owner to infect himself! Many fall for this because they don't expect a virus will be caused by a living person.
Anyway, 'Peggy' said he was from Microsoft and they were detecting worms coming from MY computer, 'that I don't know about'. Really! Then he 'led me by the hand' to go into "administration tools" to verify all this bad activity. He asked if I noticed my computer is running slow. I said, "No, it ain't slow..."
At this point, not only am I 'on to him' but I'm playing along to keep him employed for nothing, and I'm having fun. These people think everyone is an idiot, so I pretended to make typing mistakes by misinterpretation of his accent. "I am tinking... emmm... which keys again? This is confusing and my fingers are slippery like goat teats because my nervous hands are sweating!"
After awhile of this, we got to the good part where he commanded me to type, wwwdotammyydotcom. Now I KNOW this is a site to take control of my computer, and I know they want to sell me the antidote to reverse the process. These people are spineless sub-human scum who use our Internet to rob and pilfer. They have no conscience or morals and thy work full time to scam good folks.
I said, "Are you SURE this is ok? Because, all my passwords and bank accounts are on here. So are my access codes for dozens of web sites and servers. If these get into the wrong hands I could lose MILLIONS of dollars." I could hear the guy get real excited! His voice got higher as he said, "YES! YES! YES! PUSH ENTER button, right NOW! ... PUSH NOW and tell me what happening on your com-pU-ter."
I said, "Wait! Wait one minute! I am old and I need to pee before I embarrass myself. I'll be back soon, Mr. Microsoft, so do not go away."
...this guy is probably still waiting for me to return because I put the phone down by the speaker and opened a music site.
...and he doesn't know I have two phone lines.
The internet is full of warnings about this typical phone call. Folks from all over the world are warning about how they were duped, so do not get sucked in. I like this Youtube video:
- Dave
The greatest virus is one where you actually get the computer owner to infect himself! Many fall for this because they don't expect a virus will be caused by a living person.
Anyway, 'Peggy' said he was from Microsoft and they were detecting worms coming from MY computer, 'that I don't know about'. Really! Then he 'led me by the hand' to go into "administration tools" to verify all this bad activity. He asked if I noticed my computer is running slow. I said, "No, it ain't slow..."
At this point, not only am I 'on to him' but I'm playing along to keep him employed for nothing, and I'm having fun. These people think everyone is an idiot, so I pretended to make typing mistakes by misinterpretation of his accent. "I am tinking... emmm... which keys again? This is confusing and my fingers are slippery like goat teats because my nervous hands are sweating!"
After awhile of this, we got to the good part where he commanded me to type, wwwdotammyydotcom. Now I KNOW this is a site to take control of my computer, and I know they want to sell me the antidote to reverse the process. These people are spineless sub-human scum who use our Internet to rob and pilfer. They have no conscience or morals and thy work full time to scam good folks.
I said, "Are you SURE this is ok? Because, all my passwords and bank accounts are on here. So are my access codes for dozens of web sites and servers. If these get into the wrong hands I could lose MILLIONS of dollars." I could hear the guy get real excited! His voice got higher as he said, "YES! YES! YES! PUSH ENTER button, right NOW! ... PUSH NOW and tell me what happening on your com-pU-ter."
I said, "Wait! Wait one minute! I am old and I need to pee before I embarrass myself. I'll be back soon, Mr. Microsoft, so do not go away."
...this guy is probably still waiting for me to return because I put the phone down by the speaker and opened a music site.
...and he doesn't know I have two phone lines.
The internet is full of warnings about this typical phone call. Folks from all over the world are warning about how they were duped, so do not get sucked in. I like this Youtube video:
- Dave
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