WARNING: 'EASYCARE' PHONE SCAM - WINDOWS OS HOAX

[EVO-00X]

WARNING: 'EASYCARE' PHONECALL SCAMS - WINDOWS HOAX
3.20pm Monday 16th May 2011 - Newcastle NSW
My wife just received a phone call from a female with an Asian/Malaysian/Indonesian/Taiwanese/Hong Kong accent that sounded like she was making the call from another country, not in Sydney as she advised because the line was not very clear.
The woman said that she works for 'Easycare' which is a company that repairs Windows errors on behalf of Microsoft Windows.
My wife asked the woman for her business name and phone number which the person refused to provide at first, then rattled off a bunch of numbers quicker than my wife could take them down. The woman then said that there would not be a need for us to call their business after the computer has been repaired :lol:
My wife immediately passed the telephone to me.
I asked what the problem was?
The woman said that my computer is sending error reports to the Windows server and that she can talk me through repairing the errors on my computer.
I was instantly suspect and asked her what she was requesting for me to do.
She said that when I am in front of my computer she was going to talk me through some settings.
I stopped the phone call then and there by telling her that it was very suspect and that she's a scammer and Im going to end the phone call immediately.
What I envisaged was going to happen, was she was going to talk me through allowing her remote access to my computer so she can gain access to it!!
I have only ever read about these things on the internet or through chain email and never thought that it would happen to me! But there you go... happened less than 15 mins ago so I am sending out an immeidate warning to all!!
PLEASE HEED THIS WARNING AND ADVISE ALL YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
ITS A SCAM!!!
Rob.

 

[EVO-00X]

OK just found this Official Microsoft Australia link: http://www.microsoft.com/australia/presspass/post/New-twist-on-computer-error-messagevirus-scams-Joint-Warning
Explains it all.
Spread the word.

 

[Gianni]

Just tell them u don't have the Internet I got scammed buying dogs once. I bought a pair of golden retriever pups off gumtree. Actually my ex gOt scammed. But with my money

 

[brettu26]

My mum got fucked over in NZ with this a week or two ago

and they called my home here in Melbourne was well, thankfully the step son was intelligent enough to tell them to call back another time as we werent home!
Its widespread...

 

[Gianni]

I work in a call centre. Apparently as of July 1 we can start calling mobiles.

 

[marinetowing]

I had the same call several weeks ago.....told the fucker I was running linux, shut him up real quick!

 

[brisvr4]

I work in a call centre. Apparently as of July 1 we can start calling mobiles.

I hope they have a do not call option for that added to that site. Call me and Be prepared to learn several new swear words

 

[Gianni]

I personally don't agree with it. The place I work for aren't going to. There should be a do not call register for it. But like the current one it doesn't apply to charities or gov agencies

 

[EVO-00X]

The people who scam others like this are total low-life's.
Maybe I should have said "I need you to stay online for another 5 minutes so ASIS can finish tracing the call" :lol:

 

[Gianni]

Yeah. Or keep dicking them around. Get your misus to call assic and trace whilst they still think they r reaping a big score

Irony like the builders who rip off pensioners

 

[rvrftw]

I got this call and told them my ip address was 127.0.0.1
They then ran a "scan" and told me my computer was infected.
I laughed at them and told them they need to get a virus scanner and hung up

 

[EVO-00X]

FUK ME!! FAKE WEBSITE TOO!!!
<_< FFS, to make matters worse, on 10th May my silly Mrs used our visa debit card to buy something online from this place: http://www.foxmonster.com/ for our sons birthday. I told her NEVER to give our credit card number over the internet and only pay via Paypal but she obviously has gone a bit la-la and forgot the warnings. She made the transaction, got no receipt, no email, nothing... no response from the company to her email enquiries either. She failed to tell me this until yesterday when I questioned a transaction taken from our Visa account from a company called Prix-Market.com in Shanghai to the value of $35, followed immediately afterwards by a deposit of $0 with some sort of code as a description that our bank cannot even explain!!! then it finally clicked in my wife's ever so complex head that we've been frauded!! - DER!!! :unsure: Further investigation of the site on the internet backs up its suspiscious nature :unsure:

Today we had the bank immediately close the debit Visa card account due to this unauthorised transaction and now we have to wait for a new card and number to be re-issued to us. There's scum out there who prey on the unsuspecting gullible people like my wife :lol: We can kiss that $35 goodbye and should be happy that no more $$$ was taken out. I see some value in this though.... I have something I can bring up in arguments from now on when Im losing the battle... ie "well at least I didnt give our credit card number over the internet!'... ahhh.... I can see sweet victory time and time again for many years to come :lol:

 

[EVOCPE]

http://whois.domaintools.com/foxmonster.com

Chinese website

 

[Mrs_LJ_GSR]

arghh seriously i had one the other day and he wouldnt take the hint!

 

[thirteen]

lmfao I just got the call!!!

{In Indian voice} "Hi it's David from E-Security are you running the Windows Operating System?".
Me..."hold on mate whilst I get in front of the computer"
"Ok now what do I do"
{cues up Megadeth 'Wake up Dead" and turns on stereo full blast}

Indian "are you in front of the computer sir?...

Then I placed the phone against the speaker and hit play to blast the fuckers ears away.

Here's hoping he has a Megadeth-induced ruptured ear drum.

 

[rob323]

They hang up real quickly when you say things like " Bare with me for a moment while I record this call so I can pass it onto the Fraud Squad", or "you must have your head up your ass cause I don't even have a computer" or the quickest hang up yet has been "you do realize that you've called the Internet Fraud department of the Queensland Police Force, don't you?"

 

[EVO-00X]

lol at Megadeth! :lol:
Yeah man, they're doing the rounds calling people out of the phonebook I assume.
Ive been emailed by a friend in Sydney who said two people he knows have had the same thing happened to them in the meantime :angry:
There's gullible people out there who will fall victim to it unfortunately... therefore all we can do is tell our friends and loved ones to hang up on the caller.