Re: Phone call

[Matthew Jonkman <jonkman () emergingthreatspro com>]

My favorite is the "We're calling from the credit card company. There isn't a problem, but we need to talk to you about 
lowering your rates..."

I've been able to keep them on the phone for about 30 minutes before before I slip in that I work for the FTC or 
something else imaginary. Click. Makes me chuckle every time!

Matt



On Jul 17, 2011, at 9:21 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote:

> An old fraud, but apparently still going strong:
>
> http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/microsoft.asp
>
> - ferg
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
>
> > I just got a fun phone call.
> >
> > It was, he said, from Microsoft. They've found a virus on my computer!
> >
> > "Oh no," I said.
> >
> > "Yes," he said.
> >
> > He then offered me a free thing for getting rid of it, which I gratefully
> > accepted.
> >
> > He talked me through starting up my computer, running Internet Explorer,
> > going to his web site, clicking on a link to download his software, and
> > then running his software, all of which I did eagerly, while finding ways
> > to get him to tell me what I ought to be seeing, so that I could tell him
> > that's what I was indeed seeing.
> >
> > Then he asked me for the code number that came up, and that's where I
> > failed. I gave him a seven digit number, as requested, and he said it was
> > wrong. So I gave it again. No, it's wrong. At that point, I didn't feel
> > that I could plausibly change the number, and anyway, I didn't know how to
> > change it to make it right, so I gave it to him a third time.
> >
> > He regretfully concluded that he wasn't going to be able to help me, and
> > we parted good friends.
> >
> > I'm guessing that the number encoded my IP address. But this seems to me
> > to be an apallingly expensive way to plant a bot on spmepne's computer.
> > What happened to good old-fashioned spam?
> >
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