Home Support Scam - Page 2

Eric55 · 22-10-2010, 18:35

I have had two of these calls in the past couple of days, I just put the phone down and leave them to talk to no one.

Rainman · 22-10-2010, 19:07

Jayster,,,, I like this one, I can see there's going to be a lot of murders at my house and a lot of gay Mexican suspects passing off as telesales persons.
Great I'm looking forward to the next call, if not I got the air horn

Andrewcrawford23 · 22-10-2010, 21:20

if virgin did phone thr person would indetify themself as from digital home support that the only department that woudl deal with it but you would have had to be in contact with them in the first place for them to phoen oyu back

as for the company i ahd them phoen me just sat and play fora while gave them a load of micne information and they went on to tell me i am infected and they will log in and clean at whih point i told them firstly if you know anytihng oyu knwo the ip 600.20.1.30 is fake and secondly no company would phone you and tell you have a virus they wouldnt know the only one that might would be the hacker that put it there and the phoen went dead

pip08456 · 22-10-2010, 21:27

Not perfect but well worth signing up for

http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/what/

Octal · 22-10-2010, 22:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by pip08456

Not perfect but well worth signing up for

http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/what/

That's a great service, but it doesn't stop calls from outside the UK unfortunately.

Kymmy · 23-10-2010, 08:53

Merged with existing home support scam thread

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TPS will not stop scammers, instead TPS is designed to stop companies from spamming your phone line with sales calls.

AdzyUK · 25-10-2010, 10:10

I never get these types of calls, it'd be quite fun as I'd lead them on then just provide the fact that my house is a Mac only house, and we don't even have a single Windows Machine in here.

But seriously, these things need to be stopped.

jonbxx · 02-11-2010, 08:03

I had one of these last night too, claiming to be from Microsoft. He said he could see now that I had a virus running on my PC through remote access. I asked him what my IP address was and what version of Windows I was running and he replied 'how would I know that?'. I might of mentioned to him that I had a hardware and software firewall in place too and what port was he looking at on my PC? He started to get narky at that point...

Tomorrow I might say I have Linux machines. Or Solaris 10. I liked Solaris 10

Kymmy · 02-11-2010, 08:15

I think the ZX Spectrum route is good

tweetiepooh · 03-11-2010, 11:47

I like Solaris 10 too. Shame that Oracle have now neutered OpenSolaris.

arcimedes · 04-11-2010, 13:14

I had my first virus call to-day apparently the virus is going around a lot in Oxfordshire now! Told him it was linux compuer and he aplogised for troubling me.

dilli-theclaw · 04-11-2010, 13:17

I wish they would phone me, I need a laugh.

Kymmy · 15-11-2010, 07:54

Again in the news

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11754487

Kymmy · 15-11-2010, 08:56

Alt-F4 hit many times normally works well