New Scam warning

Got one from "Microsoft E-security" this morning. Strung them along for 10 minutes, pretending to download from the link. Eventually the woman on the line hung up when I asked if my password could be "F#*!offdoyouthinkimstupid"

:D
 
They are also going by ET Protections (http://etprotections.com/) now as well, a family friend was on the line to them for an hour when they started mentioning a fee of R1800 and she became suspicious and called me on the other line. Told her to pull the battery out of the laptop and go straight to the local computer shop to get whatever they put on her machine off.

Note they actually initially claimed to be calling from Microsoft, then later on behalf of Microsoft and then they became irate when she questioned them more, but she managed to get the name ET Protections.
 
threegee said:
It also seems this crowd is just calling random numbers as people have reported here in this forum their numbers are not listed. Either that or they have inside help from someone at Telkom or some other ISP who is giving them phone numbers of all people with ADSL lines who of course would have a computer connected to that line.
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They generally seem to know first name and surname. They could be getting this information from someone at Telkom. They could also be pulling credit records. Pretty much anyone can do that.
 
I wonder if the scammers are based in South Africa? What do their accents sound like?
 
The ones that contacted me called from international numbers, I'm guessing the UK, but with these calling card systems, I suppose it could be pretty much anywhere. They sounded Indian though. They did not know my name.
 
Switch to Afrikaans!

Ek praat nie engels nie, kan u my hulp?

He he, I can bet you will hear confusion and panic from the other side!
 
These scams are killing us, people must just learn to browse the internet the smart way. Only buy from places you know have a big name ie: Sybaritic.
 
It happened again today for the third time. Woman with a heavy East European accent on the other end of the phone tells me that my computer is infected. But this time I'm ready and tell her that she's correct because I collect viruses as a hobby and have more than 200,000 of them on my computer. That was the end of the phone call.
 
I had my second call on Saturday:), this time it was a Indian Lady. When she got to the part where I had to be in-front of my PC I said I can't cause I dont have a cordless and the two are just too far apart, She then replied in a friendly tone, "No It's OK .... Can you move you PC to the Telephone?":wtf:
 
How can people feel good about themselves - these scammers. I mean, how do you pick up that phone, knowing you are trying to cheat gullible people out of their money? You must have absolutely no morals whatsoever.
 
I got the call on Sunday from these thieves. Confused the hell out of them when I got them to describe the start button, and what is internet explorer. Then when I said but my Ubuntu Linux desktop doesnt have that option, they gave up and put the phone down on me. :)
 
warwickw said:
I got the call on Sunday from these thieves. Confused the hell out of them when I got them to describe the start button, and what is internet explorer. Then when I said but my Ubuntu Linux desktop doesnt have that option, they gave up and put the phone down on me. :)
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Classic :D
 
mouks said:
I had my second call on Saturday:), this time it was a Indian Lady. When she got to the part where I had to be in-front of my PC I said I can't cause I dont have a cordless and the two are just too far apart, She then replied in a friendly tone, "No It's OK .... Can you move you PC to the Telephone?":wtf:
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I got a call yesterday. Also an Indian lady, also lots of background noise. She said that she is calling from EC technical centre or something like that and that my computer is comprimised. I said, that's not possible because I have a hefty firewall in place to protect against these sorts of things (malware, attacks, viruses). She replied that it's far worse than viruses. I said, you are trying to scam the wrong person because I am a senior software architect and know a few things about computers. At that point the phone went dead.
 
DOGS!!! I hope they call me just for a laugh. How are they ever going to curb the scamming? it's just on the increase these days and with every possible sinario...
Bit of topic, but i meet an old couple at Amex on the weekend who had won the UK lotto and were sending money to the solicitor:wtf: I thought every single human knew about that 1 already, shame...
 
I'm only getting onto this recently but we've been getting lots of reports from customers who've had these phonecalls. I just sent an email to our database and have been inundated with responses (30+ and counting). Here's some of the details the scammers provide. As posted previously they are very persistent and usually get the target to open eventviewer and point out all the items with exclamation marks, saying that they prove massive problems on the PC. Then they point them to a website which installs remote access apps as well as keyloggers. These phone numbers do work btw and are obviously just being forwarded to a callcentre somewhere in India:
- Company name: ET Protection
Contact number: 213 007901 (supposed to be in Cape Town)
Contact person: Sandra.
- Ethan Cole
021 300 0011
[email protected]
- Alex Wood calling from Global ET Protection Pinelands Cape Town. (or something like that)
Phone nr 021-3007901
- https//secure.loginrescue.com/customer/code.aspx
- ET Protection
B20 Pinelands Business Park
Newmills Road
Cape Town
3 different names: Alex Hood, Leo Martin, Jacob Martin

Who do you report this sorta stuff to??
 
some more data:
MegaByte
Frank Martin
Tel no. 2721 300 2322
In Cape Town they said
 
ET Protection

Glax said:
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- https//secure.loginrescue.com/customer/code.aspx
- ET Protection
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I just had a call from the so called ET Protection I decided to see what they wanted me to do.

They took me to event viewer and showed me all the errors :rolleyes:
Tried to convince me to that my PC is infected.
They then directed me to www.logmein123.com which is when I decided to get off.

I told her that I will not allow them to log into my computer.
Asked them why they are calling me and who pays for the call. (They wanted to help me bla bla bla...)
Asked her why they are scamming people.

She then went on about how they are a legitimate company and asked me if I know how many components my computer has. I replied sure: ram, CPU, motherboad... she stopped me and said NO "internal components" :D

She proceeded to tell me that if my computer crashes I would need to buy a new one. I told her that I would just reload windows in that event. She then tried to convince me that the infection would break my hardware and that it would not be detected by any Antivirus. And at this point I told her to get lost.

It sounded like a foreign call, and the lady had a Indian accent.
 
I've found something I think all of the targets have in common - the scammers seem to always phone on the ADSL line (which is almost never listed anywhere) and they susbcribe to Telkom ADSL.
If true I'd say a Telkom employee has sold their database or someones hacked it.

@Park@82 - is that what happened to you?
 
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