Beware checkmypconline.com SCAM - Page 2

ZrByte · 03-09-2011, 14:10

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Originally Posted by Hugh

And it's easier to manage with Win7 - use a "normal" account for day to day stuff, and set up an admin account for installing/changing stuff; with Win7 you don't have to log off and on - you just get a pop-up window asking for your Admin account.

I don't, I just get an error message saying something along the line of administrative privileges are needed to perform the requested action with just an okay or cancel button (Can't rightly remember) I get this even if I check the run as administrator option.

As to the OP, I cant believe the nerve of these scammers even trying this in the first place. Especially the cheek to call you back and give you abuse when you caught them out.

budwieser · 03-09-2011, 15:56

I`ve had at least a dozen people with Pakistani accents `phone me up recently and ask me if i was `Scott Theobold` the first time i said No and they then asked if i was the owner of the telephone line, which is when i cottoned on to what was going on and swore at them and hung up!

Welshchris · 03-09-2011, 16:08

i had them ring me about 2 weeks ago and as soon as i told them i knew it was a scam and was reporting it to the police they hung up.

Paddy1 · 03-09-2011, 21:31

I strung one of these callers along for nearly an hour once before we got to the Â£79 fee for them to "fix" my computer. I then told him I was bankrupt and didn't have a bank account or credit card to give him. His response? "Does your wife have a card?"

GazCBG · 29-09-2011, 12:58

I just had my first call, didn't catch the name (couldn't really understand him) but court the words computer and windows, so I just said I don't have a computer.

Then he said a laptop I so no, that took him back. He ended by saying: erm ok thank you.

So hopefully that is the phone number off the list.
I wasn't in the mood to play around.