a new aproch to virus scaming

[vinnywright]

ran across this in this months e-Week

tinyurl.com/3ahmze8

or

http://securitywatch.eweek.com/rogue...the_phone.html

VINNY

[MoonRise]

Re: a new aproch to virus scaming

Wow! It takes all kinds but that is truly scary. the fact that they went through the motions I know a lot of novices would do. Amazing at the amount of information they wanted. Truly scary.

[vinnywright]

Re: a new aproch to virus scaming

ya not onley are thay gona max the card but then probebley try to sell your identety as well

and yes I can see some/allot of novices geting puled in to that if hit with it at the rong time/frame of mind.

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

Re: a new aproch to virus scaming

That's as bad as this one:

I trusted him because he was a DELL technician

A Sacramento woman says a tech support engineer in India managed to expose her secrets and make charges to her credit card after she called him with a desperate request.

She had nude pictures of herself (for her boyfriend) but she couldn't find them when she tried to email them. So, she called DELL's telephone support center (in India).

So she called Dell support for help with her new Dell computer and delicate problem. She was connected to a Dell support contractor in Mumbai, India named Riyaz Shaikh.
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She gave the technician permission to access her computer remotely and watched as he found the pictures and downloaded them.

"Oh yeah, I'm totally convinced. I watched him take the pictures out of my e-mail. I watched him," said Fitzgerald.

Shortly thereafter, 16 nude photographs appeared on a vulgar website created for the sole purpose of displaying her pictures.

BUT, you haven't read it all. Now look what happens!

In conversations that became increasingly personal, the support technician offered to help Fitzgerald remove the offensive website and somehow convinced her to ship him a brand new Dell laptop so he could work on her case from his home in Mumbai.


"And I'm telling myself, my conscience is talking to me saying, 'Tara, don't send this. What are you doing? Are you crazy?' I sent it anyways because I really believed in this guy. I really had faith that he was protecting my dignity," said Fitzgerald.

And then her disturbing experience with the tech support rep took an even more bizarre turn.

On Valentine's Day he told her he had fallen in love with a young woman in Tennessee who had also called Dell tech support.

Fitzgerald later discovered he shipped $800 worth of Dell computer gear to the woman's home in Waynesboro and billed it to Fitzgerald's Dell credit card.
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In several online chats between Shaikh and Tara, he acknowledged the improper charges as recently as this week.

This all happened a YEAR ago, but after repeated calls to DELL which got no where she's made a media event out it ... and exposed one other thing ... need I tell you? (This reminds me of the HP customer service tech story where he told a customer to box up their computer and take it back to the store because they were too stupid to use it.)

You can see a video news report made this week. It's at the bottom of the article.

[ccnjim]

Re: a new aproch to virus scaming

They called me 3 times to repair my computer a few months ago. The spooky thing about it was I was having trouble with my realtek drivers in win7 when the first call came. I told the caller, "I don't talk to people or do business over the phone that I haven't initiated." The next day he called back and I told him to quit calling me. He kept trying to convince me he was from microsoft and wanted me to talk to his supervisor Brian. The last call came the following day and I told him I didn't even use windows. I run Linux! I also said I had reported his calls to the phone company because this was obviously a scam. I never heard from them again.

[arochester]

Re: a new aproch to virus scaming

...But how do they know who has a computer and their contact information?..

We don't hear about people, who have no computers, getting phone calls to fix computer problems...

I've long had suspicions about some online games or software where you have to "register". Literally giving information away and asking for trouble.