Please warn friends & family about this SCAM

[KrazE]

I know I have seen a couple posts on here, but it's really hitting people now, so please get talking about this with people around you & get out the word!

http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/08/07/...on-in-scam-101

[Kitty77]

Good post Kraze, we have had this Scam phone call several times this summer.

[Darth Penguin]

I had a similar call yesterday. And when I told them I didn't have a puter, they were totally thrown by my answer and hung up.

[Ami1984]

We had this call not too long ago as well and my DH is very good with computers so it was a given we said no but, I can understand how they could get people with this, everyone wants a fast computer, Criminals are getting smarter and smarter these days

[Lynn49]

Thank you. I've passed this along to our friends...

[Sally888]

Heh, Boo gave me remote access to his computer last week.

I should of stole all his information! Doh!

[Lynn49]

You wouldn't believe this, but I sent that information to relative and friends, and didn't our DD and her DH get a VERY similar phone call in the early evening??!!!! Saying they had some sort of warnings (which turned out to be innocent computer stuff) on their computer...omg...she thanked me for sending that info to her, since she was the one who answered the phone. And would you believe, she said, "call later and talk to my husband" and they DID??!! The nerve!!! He shut them down pretty quick!

This must be rampant now!!

Thank you so much again for this information, KrazE!!

[Poirot]

I got this call today.This is the third time.I told them I don't have a computer maybe they will quit calling now.

[dch]

My Mom gets this call all the time - and she has NEVER in her life owned, used or done anything with a computer - when they called she pretended to do everything on the computed with the guy and totally messed with him the entire call. When they asked my mom her IP address she said "No, I don't have to pee do you?" and hung up.. haha

They call still but there's nothing she can do but ignore them.

[Mamaelmo]

i got that call last week and she was trying everything to get access to my computer
like really those morons calling about the windows scam dont listen, 1st they said they were calling about my desktop so i told them i didnt have one then they said they were calling about windows soi told them i had a mac so they then said they were calling from apple, i told them to shove their scam up their butt and she had to ask me what scam lol bunch of morons gues they dont know they are incomplete idiots lol well they should now since i told them they were lol

[Sally888]

I was at my friends when she got the call, they were really bad at speaking english but she got the gist that they wanted her to power up her computer...

[LoRaOz]

I just got a phone call today from a 1 -999 # and when I googled it, the answers seem pretty close to this thread. Glad I did not answer Thanks for the info I willl be passing on

[Judstir]

They even called me at the cabin this summer, right after I got my new lap top. I questioned them throughly and then said I would have to talk to my son who was a computer programmer and they should call me back in an hour. Never heard from them again. Seemed funny to me that they would call shortly after I registered my new lap top with Dell.

[TudorChick]

i can't beleieve they still do this.but i guess they are waiting for the poor elderly people who don't know better...i just tell them to shove it.

[Valiant]

As one of the 'poor, elderly people who don't know better', I just let my answering machine screen all my calls.