Scams

[corsa]

Hi All

I have just received a call from this number 025623245631, telling me that they been monitoring the broadband systems for Sky,Talk Talk
and Virgin Media and it is very slow and that it's being caused by a problem on my PC which they can fix

As soon as I said I will call the police the line went dead, so please beware

Regards

Tom

[Chris-G0WTZ]

I usually tell them I am running Ubuntu 

[birdie]

I played their games - talk to them, drag the conversation for as long as i could to waste their phone calls $$.

Get their name, company name, etc ... even small talks like trying to date the caller out (if she is a female).

... then came the final blow - tell the caller since I got all the details - I will forward to the Criminal Investigations Agency for follow up.

The line went dead !

[Sun Worshipper]

... then came the final blow - tell the caller since I got all the details - I will forward to the Criminal Investigations Agency for follow up.

Not the CIA

[stonosnr]

A couple of weeks ago I received an email from "my ISP" advising me that I was in arrears with monthly payments and that I had to "log into my account using the link provided". I didn't believe it as I pay by DD, so contacted my ISP who asked for the original email to be forwarded to their fraud section. Obviously it was a scam, but the scammer didn't give up that easily. I received another email earlier this week advising that as I hadn't yet paid off the debt, then they would be disconnecting my account as from 0000hrs that night!
As I am still able to use internet, it proves my first thoughts, it was a clumsy attempt to extract money via a scamming link. So I would always advise checking demands like this via another authentic route in the hope that the originators can be nailed.
Stonosnr

[neil-c]

It is still doing the rounds, the wife got a very similar E-mail today.
Wanting card details to confirm ect even though she doesn't pay it that way. This one was supposedly Virgin Media.