Actually, here's another good overview of the scam with suggestions about what
to do:
https://windowssecrets.com/top-story/security-alert-bogus-tech-support-phone-calls/
Brent
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From: Russell Standish <r.stand...@unsw.edu.au>
To: Brent Auble <br...@auble.net>; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee
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Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2013 7:54 AM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] A new kind of pfishing?
Thanks. I think it was the middle article I read.
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 01:22:57AM -0700, Brent Auble wrote:
> Here are some links to the person you're likely thinking of (arranged
> chronologically):
>
> Anatomy of a virus call centre scam
> http://www.troyhunt.com/2011/10/anatomy-of-virus-call-centre-scam.html
>
> Scamming the scammers – catching the virus call centre scammers red-handed
> http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/02/scamming-scammers-catching-virus-call.html
>
> Interview with the man behind Comantra, the “cold call virus scammers”
> http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/05/interview-with-man-behind-comantra-cold.html
>
>
> And then, of course, there's Snopes:
> http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/microsoft.asp
>
>
> Sadly, I haven't gotten one of these calls yet, but then again, I usually
> don't answer calls from numbers I don't recognize. I'd enjoy wasting their
> time, since that's all that can really be done to punish them.
>
> Brent
>
>
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> From: Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au>
> To: friam@redfish.com
> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2013 3:21 AM
> Subject: [FRIAM] A new kind of pfishing?
>
> We've had these sorts of calls in Australia for last 2-3 years. My
> wife had fun playing sport with one about 6 months ago. I usually
> hang up straight away - like Doug said, there was no point mentioning
> that we're a Linux (mostly) household.
>
> I remember reading a blog by an internet security consultant, who spun
> up a virtual machine whilst on the phone, and let them into it, just
> to see what they did. Needless to say, they were not particularly
> sophisticated, and hang up immediately he revealed to them how he'd
> conned them.
>
> I don't have a reference, and Google not really helping at present...
>
> Cheers
>
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 01:55:42PM -0600, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
> > Can anybody confirm this as a new form of pfishing?
> >
> >
> >
> > I got a call from a number in DC today, somebody with a strong Indian
> > sub-continent accident, telling me that my computer was sending error
> > messages to the network and offering to help me correct them. (I have the
> > number in my phone trap, and would report it if I knew where to report it
> > to.) The next step involved my going on my computer and connect it to them,
> > I assume. These guys were pretty bad at what they were doing,, but I can
> > imagine a more subtle line that I might have fallen for.
> >
> >
> >
> > Does anybody recognize this?
> >
> >
> >
> > N
> >
> >
> >
> > Nicholas S. Thompson
> >
> > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
> >
> > Clark University
> >
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
> >
> > http://www.cusf.org <http://www.cusf.org/>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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