A few months ago, the city of Atlanta Georgia had its computer system high
jacked that same way. The scammers said they would release the cities
computers for 50 thousand dollars. Which would have been less expensive
than having the system restored by legitimate means. The city didn't pay
the scammers, however. They suffered much inconvenience, however. It makes
us mere private citizens feel better. Knowing, this sort of thing can even
happen to large cities.
----- Original Message -----
From: "JM Casey" <crystallo...@ca.inter.net>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2018 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] calling from windows trashed computer
Hey.
I'm familiar with this scam. Unless it's a different variant, what they
actually installed was Team Viewer. This is a legitimate programme made by
Microsoft which is often used in IT or support environments. However, it
allows a person to have remote access and control the host computer. So
theoretically, they could have done a lot of things once Team Viewer was
up
and running. I would definitely boot into safe mode, and examine startup
items using msconfig or some similar programme to see if Team Viewer or
any
other unwanted programmes are activating automatically at startup. As for
trashed files, let's hope your friend has a backup. The fake technician
could have just deleted stuff out of spite if the person refused to give
his
credit card information; they have been known to do this. There's a video
on
youtube of a guy fooling them by using a virtual machine. It's pretty
funny,
so long as you yourself werent' scammed, but it illustrates how these
people
usually operate.
It's hard to believe that people are really taken in by this, but I guess
your friend is a sobering example of how this can happen.
-----Original Message-----
From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On
Behalf Of Lenny McHugh
Sent: June 9, 2018 11:59 AM
To: JFW List
Subject: [JAWS-Users] calling from windows trashed computer
A friend had his computer trashed by the calling from windows scam. He was
not thinking when they directed him to the event viewer to show him
problems. They installed some trash software that he must pay them to
remove. He quickly turned off his computer while screaming at them. Is
there
any removal tool that I can use to clean his machine?
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