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ozziej

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Okay, my in-laws have received a couple of calls this weekend and today from a company called "MegaByte" they are claiming that their home computer is compromised and that it is sending out emails or some rubbish. It seems like these dudes Modus Operandi is to go through the phone book (as they phoned them on their landline) and make up some rubbish that their computer is at risk and that they need to access it to fix it. It seems like quite a big operation as they were calling from a call center (apparently lots of background noise and people talking) Luckily with me in the family, they know a little bit more about computers than the average person, so basically told these scumbags to take a hike.

Anyone else heard about these fools?

I'm not sure if they are local or an international operation, cause, as I said they phoned on the home number and the in-laws don't have called ID on the home phone.
 
Thx for the heads-up. Sounds like a sneaky enough way to trick a few naive people
 
Would have been interesting see what they actually do, probably install some sort of key-logger.
 
Hope I'm not hijacking/stealing a thread but I got a new scam/e-mail this morning confirming my purchase of an airline ticket with reference no. and asking me to log in to confirm the purchase. I did not click on the link because I have'nt purchased a ticket but I'm sure it will ask me to log in using credit card numbers or something to scam info. Beware!!
 
Have a look (and register with) http://www.scambusters.com/ There are some amazing people there, including several South Africans (Rhett Molyneux, Lewis Chesler) who have taken people for millions
 
I had that happen to me as well and I am in the computer support business. They called me on my cell phone so I suspect they obtained a list from someone who has access to cellphone number lists.

When I started asked them technical question as to what IP address they detected the problem coming from and how they got through my firewall and what port did they access my computer from, the phone was put down on me.

These people are trading on consumers naivety and inexperience. Someone should contact the ombudsman for the Consumer Protection Act as this is blatantly false marketing.
 
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My sister-in-law had the same call on Friday. They are very persistant - kept her on the line for nearly an hour directing her to 'corrupt files' on her system. A fee of some R1000 was mentioned. Fortunately she got rid of them before any further damage could be done
 
jamesob said:
My sister-in-law had the same call on Friday. They are very persistant - kept her on the line for nearly an hour directing her to 'corrupt files' on her system. A fee of some R1000 was mentioned. Fortunately she got rid of them before any further damage could be done
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Also called themselves megabyte?
 
is there somewhere that we can report a scam sms? i want someone to get arrested today. i'm feeling a little under the weather with my cold and i'm hoping this will cheer me up. :twisted:
 
I wonder if we could get a landline number from them? To better report them.
 
Yeah, my sister just phoned me while she had them on the line. They are "Megabyte Solutions".

I got her to get a name and number from them. So I phoned, and after listening to their BS, I told them that they are talking BS.. remarkable professional sounding operation.. I've been in IT for 15 years and have an engineering degree, so there was no fooling me :), but my sister was in a flat panic :cry:..

DONT trust these fools. It is a scam.

I called Microsoft and had a great chat with them. They are logging it and investigating for us.

People taking advantage of people who don't know better should burn in hell.. :twisted:

Happy weekend everyone!
 
You spammed in a thread about spam, smooth move
 
Seems these guys are still around, possbily under a different name. Got a phone call from a family member about guys that have been phoning my landline all week insisting that there is something wrong with my PC - very persistent they are. Asked them how they linked my PC to a completely different landline number and *silence*
 
Ancalagon said:
yeah I would pretend to be the doffest oke when it comes to computers!
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Wonder if I could keep them going for awhile, until they realised I had Linux installed, and whatever crap they want me to install on my system would probably not work! :D

Heh, keep them on while looking for files that don't exist, in folders that are hard, if not impossible, to fine, lol! :D:D

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Just got a call on my landline from number "002118". My wife answered. She says it was a heavily accented Indian person asking if we had computers with an internet connection.
She just said, "No, we don't." and then hung up.
 
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