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Originally Posted by shadowpr
Wow.
I can't really see this working too well though.
And that 347 number is from NY.
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It's not too much different from the malware on your computer that
performs a bogus scan, detects bogus malware and directs you to a
site to get you to pay with your credit card to remove the bogus
malware it detected.
It might work even better because a human is on the phone trying
to con you. Where it might fail is when a person hears a foreign
accent and becomes suspicious. I know they fooled my customer
becasue she reported to me that they had her doing various things
to check her PC. She followed their directions all the way to the
point of them asking for her credit card info. That's when she
bailed out.
The really odd thing is this. She called me last night saying that her
PC would not shut down. I had her shut it usiing the power button
and it seemed to fix the problem. Then today she calls me with this
phone call issue. I told her it's just a coincidence and that's probably
all it was. I'm mentioning it here just in case the same exact thing
happens to someone else. If that happens it might be a clue that
some new kind of malware is harvesting phone numbers direclty
from the user's PC and then creates a bug to make the PC
malfiunction. That pretty far fetched, but you know that it is
technically possible, so we have to consider it.
---pete---
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